Mayor at the Movies with Ed Koch
Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch does his weekly take on new movies--from blockbusters to art films. His rating system is as plainspoken as his la...
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The Help (A Mayor Koch Review)
03:25
Jan 13, 2012
The film adaptation of the 2009 novel by Kathryn Stockett is a winner and very true to the race situation in Jackson, Mississippi, during the early 1960s. In those days, seg...
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My Week With Marilyn (A Mayor Koch Review)
08:44
Jan 4, 2012
This film got mostly negative reviews, but I thought it was a sheer delight. Marilyn Monroe was such an extraordinary woman, and Michelle Williams conveys the fullness of th...
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The Hedgehog (A Mayor Koch Review)
02:32
Dec 28, 2011
You will be engrossed every minute of the hour and a half that you spend at this film, based on a novel by Muriel Barbery, and a screenplay by Mona Achache, who also directe...
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J. Edgar (A Mayor Koch Review)
05:16
Dec 28, 2011
Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch reviews the Leonardo DiCaprio star vehicle "J. Edgar," a look at the life of longtime FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, directed by Clint East...
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Ryan Gosling in "Drive" (A Mayor Ed Koch Review)
07:38
Oct 9, 2011
This is a very good movie and I recommend it highly. In it stars Ryan Gosling, who looks like Brad Pitt looked when Brad Pitt was young. (Brad Pitt is now middle-aged!) It's...
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Tree of Life (A Mayor Koch Review)
03:33
Aug 14, 2011
The actors in this film (Brad Pitt, Sean Penn) are wonderful and it has majestic music and cinematography regarding the story of the cosmos. However, that tale is far better...
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Passione (A Mayor Koch Review)
02:50
Jul 25, 2011
Actor-director John Turturro creates a musical that plays out through on streets of Naples, with contemporary actors singing songs that originated in the Neapolitan city. I ...
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Bride Flight (A Mayor Koch Review)
02:26
Jul 25, 2011
The movie, which begins after World War II, focuses on three women and a man on a flight from Holland to New Zealand. The interconnecting stories of each individual involve ...
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Midnight in Paris: A Mayor Koch Review
02:52
Jun 17, 2011
Woody Allen is back--hurrah! (He's had a number of flops--and every one of them I've seen. And I'll see every one of his films until either he or I dies. He's 75 and I'm 86,...
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Bridesmaids (A Mayor Koch Review)
02:33
Jun 15, 2011
Mayor Ed Koch finds the potty-humor plotlines of "Bridesmaids" a little too much to bear. "Call me sexist," he says, explaining he can stomach a gross-out frat-boy film much...
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Potiche (A Mayor Koch Review)
02:43
May 12, 2011
This movie is mildly funny, like a second-rate sitcom. Nevertheless, I could never give a bad rating to a film in which Catherine Deneuve stars. It ends with a Bollywood son...
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Limitless (A Mayor Koch Review)
03:08
May 11, 2011
Bradley Cooper, Robert DeNiro and Abbie Cornish star in this science fiction thriller about a man who exponentially improves his brain power with the help of a special pill....
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Mayor at the Movies with Ed Koch
About Mayor at the Movies with Ed Koch
Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch does his weekly take on new movies--from blockbusters to art films. His rating system is as plainspoken as his language. A "plus" for movies he likes, a "minus" for ones he doesn't. Watch and hear as the New Yorkiest of all New Yorkers tells it like it is. The Mayor at the Movies is a production of New York Insider TV.
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TV-PG
