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Scorsese isn't what he used to be and as a Scorsese lover this pains me to say so.
It pains me to say it, but Strength and Honour is a stinker that should be avoided at all costs.
Throw in an American actress (Joanna Kerns, of "Growing Pains" fame), her reporter boyfriend, and a pair of Army officers bent on killing the beast, and you have "A.P.E."
It pains me to say that my boys (aged 3 and 7) enjoyed it.
Second is the escort Dreama Little, played by a shockingly grown up and amazingly hot Ashley Johnson, who was little brat on Growing Pains that looked like 'Annie'.
For his pains he died in virtual obscurity prior to the second World War he had foreseen.
For while the formula of Wellington having a problem, sending to Sharpe to solve it, a beautiful woman getting involved and everything culminating in a massive pitched battle was well and truly in place by now, Sharpe's Battle takes pains to develop its characters further.
shows don't translate well on the big screen and it pains me to say that Strangers with Candy the movie is no exception to this rule.
Much as it pains me, but Tre Solar cannot earn more than 2/10 by me.
Stillman strikes just the right note in a story that touches on pains and fears that are genuinely daunting (divorce of parents, love unrequited, etc) as well as the comic value of his characters' earnestness and foibles, keeping just the right distance so that comedy keeps just ahead; all leading to the modest but charming triumph of the shy and virtuous protagonists.
Enjoyable little film about friendship, the fun and pains of growing up, and incidently, growing up on the streets of New York; Though not for everybody, this is still engaging to watch.
I found this to be a captivating and entertaining movie - great pains were taken to reproduce that 70's look and feel and it is totally convincing.
It got him cast as a smart artist playboy paired with no nonsense judge Myrna Loy, whose younger sister, Shirley Temple, has some growing up pains to work through.
I pray it becomes a midseason replacement on the CW or even a bigger network(Fox?!?!?!)Gough and Millar were ripped off when this show wasn't picked up I mean this is a high quality show it pains me to think it might not get picked.
Its advocates are at pains to explain what kind of trade and partnership agreements, if any, Britain could enter into with the EU, much less how those agreements would be superior to the current arrangement.
After the election, the real politicking began, but even then, pains were taken to obscure those activities from Germany’s Michels.
The annual press conference also provided Putin an opportunity to put Russia’s involvement in Syria in a positive light, and took pains to do so.
Obama’s efforts to stabilize the banking system, it almost pains me to acknowledge, succeeded despite themselves.
In the past, policymakers have been at pains to stress that no such fragmentation will be allowed.
But, despite the pains my father had taken, the other designers expressed growing discontent about Korolev getting all the publicity, even if anonymously.
In America, as in much of the world, health care is late to the IT game, and is experiencing these growing pains only now.
To keep these countries on board, he has been at pains to show that extremism is a universal concern that transcends the Muslim world.
At the same time, China has taken pains to remind India that it still claims a further 92,000 square kilometers, mainly in Arunachal Pradesh.
The Global Fund is not perfect; as with all new organizations, it is experiencing growing pains.
European officials have been at pains to prevent the EU’s enlargement from creating new dividing lines between Belarus and its neighbors to the west and north – Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia – that joined the Union in 2004.
The chief reason for the euro's pains is the performance of the US economy.
That is why I have long taken pains to check carefully quotations attributed to me by the media.
In fact, Israel has taken great pains to avoid being sucked into that conflict, even as it has scaled up aerial attacks on arms convoys headed for Hezbollah, which has been attempting to open a second front against Israel on the Golan.
Russian mercenaries, the authorities have been at pains to insist, are not Russian forces.
Well, as the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman was at pains to demonstrate in a recent paper, an economy with flexible exchange rates and debt denominated in domestic currency will expand, not contract, in response to a foreign deleveraging shock.
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