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“Awakenings” a THEWIDESCREEN review   thoughts after the jump.   We miss you Robin Williams. Man what a trip this movie. I had such bad memories from this film I think they tried showing it to us in class once and I just remembered it was about sick people in the hospital. But let me tell you this thing is a masterpiece. It’s writen by the great Steve Zailan, writer of “HBO’s “The NIght Of” and Shindler’s List, among others, and directed by Garry Marshall’s sister, Penny Marshall from Laverne and Shirley. It’s got superb acting by Robin Williams who always handles comedy and drama so well, and BOBBY DENIRO who got an oscar nomination for his performance in this film, the oscar nom was the first time he had been nominated by the academy in almost 15 years since Ragin Bull in the 80s. He didn’t win.   The plot is great stuff. The problem is catatonic states. Deniro and company are completely inmobile, can’t speak can’t move they can’t even talk. Their faces ar

a THEWIDESCREEN TV review thoughts after the jump   A great episode. The best episode of the 17th season. This is the season that is airing right now on fox in the usa. This episode is written by long time writer for the show Steve Callahan. He wrote the classic episode "Thin White Line" where Brian is a police dog and gets hooked on cocaine another classic check it out. Steve Callahan’s been on the show since season 3. This is season 17.   No tricycle for me!!  Great plot. Peter sells off Stewie's tricycle as it gets shipped off to trash island and it’s up to stewie and brian to go find it and get it back. They board a ship and set sail on the waters for trash island. Almost dying on the way becoming shipwrecked and unable to get back home. They get the tricycle back at the end. This episode was so good vintage simple classic Family Guy that it made us at THEWIDESCREEN go back and re watch some of season 17’s best episodes.   T

a THEWIDESCREEN analysis. thoughts after the jump. Yes Tony dies. He gets shot in the last scene it’s so obvious that we don’t know why we didn’t see it back in 2007 when the finale aired. Here is our case for why Tony dies. The first episode of the last season is titled “Members Only” so it’s full circle that episodes later the man in the diner in the last scene in the finale “Made In America” is wearing a members only  jacket. It’s foreshadowing. The last season literally opens with Uncle June shooting Tony. Mistakingly believing it was someone else in his alzheimer world. But Tony almost dies in the season opener. This is  more foreshadowing as he gets to live one last season before finally succumbing at the end. The last episode “Made in America” opens with Tony Soprano in bed asleep in a very coffin like position with funeral organ music playing in the background. The cat. The cat that Tony finds in the safehouse that Paulie starts to think is Ch

A Bronx Tale. A THEWIDESCREEN review. Great fucking film. This movie directed by Deniro with Villalobos as dp is a thing of beauty. It’s heartbreaking, slice of life, funny, tragic, violent. Lemme back up. The plot is a thing of beauty. The problem is the mafia. Deniro plays against character as a bus driver in the 50’s living in New York city who's son is friendly with the local mob group. Sunny played by Chaz Palminteri and based on his own play. Imagine the irony of Deniro telling his son not to be part of the mob of their dirty money and their cars and women. The man behind Goodfellas and Casino. There’s also such good acting in this film. The little kid is played by Francis Capra from Veronica Mars fame and he’s so friggin good.  Kid actors don’t know how to act but this kid was ahead of his time. It’s shot on location and features real Brooklyn sidewalks as kids out of school playing in  water from fire hydrants

THEWIDESCREEN review of "Hoffa".  Jack Nicholson stars as Jimmy Hoffa with prostethics and awesome acting. Devito is his right hand man but this movie is bonkers it's a gangster film since Hoffa worked wiht the mob to fund his deals. He would let them steal the contents of trucks to sweeten the deal and agree to work for him. You learn alot about teamsters and their history and the ending is awesome no one knows what happened to Jimmy Hoffa but they think the mob killed him and the last scene with the guy from Pulp Fiction, that  S amuel Jackson eats his burger and drinks his soda before shooting him, he kills hoffa with a silencer and Devito runs to protect his good friend and also gets two bullets in him.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI9CAfqY3hk Jersey Films is the production  company of Danny Devito. He's from there. 

"Renaissance Man, a film directed by Danny Devito himself. A great picture that THEWIDESCREEN avoided initially because it was an army film. But it turns out it's actually a school film. Danny devito stars as a man without a job that has to   teach school to a bunch of army guys that include Mark Whalberg at 20 and the kid from The Sopranos fame that tried to kill Cristopher and from A Bronx Tale.  Lillo Brancato.  The  movie is primo Devito and funny as hell, as Devito tries to teach this army nuts Shakespeare.  Grade: 16:9 Widescreen, yeah we were surprised too.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NyTDjFJOwY