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There was much to improve in the original version of "Red Dawn," a simple-minded fantasy film about a communist invasion of small town America: the plot, which asked us to believe that Cu...
Oh, Grandmother, what a big, bad movie you have.
So, apparently what happened here is that for whatever reason director Catherine Hardwicke did not get to make the second and third "Twili...
The most important moment in Bill Maher's new documentary about the dangers and hypocrisy of religion is at the conclusion of his visit to a tiny trucker's chapel. As he does throughout the movie ...
Robert Pattinson has gone from brooding, adoring Bella, saving Bella, and trying not to kill anyone in the
Twili...
This is America. We do not torture people. But sometimes we send prisoners suspected of ties to terrorism to places where they do torture people. That is what happens to Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar M...
We’ve all done it. We know we shouldn’t. We know it is dangerous. Dwight (Mark Ruffalo) is racing to get his 10-year-old son home after a ball game went into extra innings. He is ...
Those meanies at the Umbrella Corporation are at it again in the third chapter of this series based on the popular computer game. That pesky virus they allowed to escape has wiped out nearly all li...
Robert Blecker is one of the most outspoken -- and unexpected -- proponents of the death penalty. He does not try to base ...
If, as the Gothic calligraphy tells us as the beginning of this film, tyrants inspire heroes, then the clear implication is that heroes inspire movies. And Robin Hood, who stole from the rich to g...
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Posted on Thursday June 14, 2012
Hal (Reece Thompson) has something say but he has a lot of trouble saying it. On the bus, he can practice asking for pizza, but when it comes to the moment and he is standing in the cafeteria line...
In the savage satire The Player, actor/screenwriter Buck Henry makes a hilarious pitch for a sequel to The Graduate, something of a savage satire itself, though cloaked in the garb of a romantic fa...

David Schwimmer, who ...