Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast New Releases 1/25/08How She Move (PG-13)Rutina Wesley, Brennan Gademans, Cle Bennett, Tre Armstrong, Kevin Duhaney, Shawn Desman, Dwain MurphyDirected by: Andrew LockingtonWith new faces, fresh ideas, and a celebration of inner city realities, this hit from the Sundance Film Festival focuses on the coming of age of a talented young woman who finds herself by step dancing.3 pieces of dancing shoes toast.Untraceable (R)Diane Lane, Billy … Read More »

Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast New Releases 1/18/08 Cloverfield (PG-13)Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel, Odette Yustman, Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T.J. MillerDirector: Matt ReevesThe box office success of the low budget Korean film, “The Host,”set things in motion, and now, since the Hudson must be more polluted than the Han river, American movie makers have created a bigger, stronger, more destructive monster than that puny Korean guppy . By using … Read More »

Gil Mansergh’s Cinema Toast New Releases 1/11/08 There Will be Blood (R) Daniel Day-Lewis, Mary Elizabeth Barrett, Paul Dano, Dillon Freasier, Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson Daniel Day Lewis is inspired as the greed-driven prospector Daniel Plainview who hits it rich in the western oilfields. This is a three-part drama “the almost dialogue-free opening at a played-out silver mine “the oil-speculator swindling his way across California oilfields, and the epilogue in the hauntingly empty … Read More »

Thanks for those of you who have written asking “Where were you” last Friday and in Wednesday’s Argus Courier. I was where I usually am “in my home office, but I was literally “off the grid.” Two of my neighbor’s trees fell over in the big storm late Thursday, taking down power lines, telephone lines and internet cable with them. On Friday morning, I discovered I was literally stuck at home … Read More »