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DIVERSIONS MOVIES REALITY CHECK Oscar overlooks Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ��� Mark Twain The Academy Awards ceremony always seems to celebrate a handful of movies released during the holiday season. But in 2012, By Corey Craft Unresolved resolutions year featured a bevy of awards-worthy at some of the Liam Neeson stars in the action thriller ���The Grey.��� From left, Dallas Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Liam Neeson and Nonso Anozie. movies of the year that should be in the awards conversation. ���The Grey��� Director Joe true crime story wilderness survival thriller is a white- a mortuary assistant who befriends an soon becomes her delves into some subject matter. ���The of men stranded wilderness after a off the elements and considering God, their lives and their and Matthew McConaughey, as a county district the movie is wildly funny. Now on DVD. ���Killer Joe��� Another Matthew McConaughey vehicle, this extremely off. Liam Neeson gives one of his best comedic thriller garnered an NC-17 de facto leader of the survivors. Now on DVD. ���Bernie��� for all tastes. William director Richard and Confused,��� based on an unusual Exorcist,��� ���The tale that alternates between hilarious and hard to watch about a family in over their heads when they hire a hitman Now on DVD. ���Lawless��� Shia LaBeouf, Chastain and Guy Pearce star in this action movie set in during Prohibition, a story of three bootlegger brothers with a big-city federal agent sent to shut them down. from its large cast. Now on DVD. ���Arbitrage��� Richard Gere gives one of his best underseen thriller about a successful businessman involved business comes under investigation. Dear Carolyn, I love the holidays but dread all the New Year���s resolution discussions. I am a long-haul trucker and, like most of us, am sedentary and overweight. I hear it from everyone ��� my wife, family, kids, boss and especially all you truck writers. Everyone has something to say about how I need to exercise and make healthy choices. So I make my New Year���s resolution list and by February have already broken every one. Last year I resolved to run a marathon and lose 50 pounds. I never made it past running one mile and losing ���ve pounds, and then gained it back the next week. There is so much about my life, diet and exercise options that I can���t change, it seems pointless to even ��� Alan try. Dear Alan, Instead of wildly ambitious and unrealistic resolutions, consider baby steps toward better health. Today, decide to take a short walk. That���s it. No measuring distance or adding speed. Just take a short brisk walk. Tomorrow, do it again. The next day, cut your soda intake in half. That���s it. And walk. I���m not saying it���s easier than a resolution list; it���s just more effective for some people. Clearly, you are some people. ��� Carolyn By Carolyn Magner Contributing editor OverdriveOnline.com/RealityCheck January 2013 | Overdrive | 35