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When you suffer a devastating loss, there is the pain of missing what you once had. But there is pain that goes beyond the space circumscribed by the person who is gone. Grief is its own planet a...
Give me Dame Helen Mirren with a semi-automatic weapon and Morgan Freeman smiling, "We're getting the band back together," and I will happily settle back and enjoy the popcorn.
"RED" stands for "R...
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 official military documents of the 1940's said that African-Americans were "mentally inferior" "subservient and cowards" and not fit to fly planes. The Tuskegee Airmen of WWII proved that Afr...
Robert Pattinson has gone from brooding, adoring Bella, saving Bella, and trying not to kill anyone in the
Twili...
Critic-turned-writer/director Rod Lurie produces old-fashioned potboilers, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. His unabashed melodramas can be refreshing in an era when very little of what we ...
The single most interesting aspect of this movie about a man who pretends to be disabled so that he can compete in the
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Posted on Tuesday December 20, 2005
By the time they got to the line, "Take your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty ape!" I couldn't help thinking, "Take your stinking paws off the franchise, Hollywood!" Do we really need anot...
Actors! They just can't help themselves when a juicy part comes along. And that is why Oscar-winner Sir Anthony Hopkins finds himself in "The Rite," an "inspired by a true story" thriller about a...
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
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 ...