Wizard of Oz

Tina Turner Lends an Ear

Three of my favorite fashion muses — Cinderella, Dorothy Gale and Carrie Bradshaw — taught me it’s all about the shoes.

Thank goodness for Helen Mirren; without her there'd be almost nothing new for grown-up movie lovers to see this weekend. Besides Dame Helen's latest offering (The Hundred-Foot Journey), this looks like a good time to catch up on summer's best offerings, including G et on Up, Calvary and Boyhood.

Inspired by a German retirement community's viral success earlier this year with what one website lauded as "probably the best calendar ever," residents of nine senior living communities across the United States have tweaked the concept to produce a homegrown calendar in which they recreate some iconic pop-culture scenes.

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Let's see; we've got a kidnapping drama, high-speed race cars, and Munchkins in 3-D. Yep, something for everyone in theaters this weekend.

Adaptations of best-loved books from childhood are among my favorite graphic novels.

 

 

Well, I hope you're satisfied. Martin Scorsese's Hugo arrived on DVD and BluRay this week, and at that moment you missed out on any chance that you'll ever get to see it the way it was meant to be experienced: On a floor-to-ceiling movie theater screen in glorious 3-D.