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Early success is routinely reckoned as a cause of the drying up and demise of American artists. However, fame -- with not all that much fortune -- isn’t posited as the downfall of the New Journalist subject of Alex Gibney’s Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson. While the...
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Hancock starts off amusing enough, basically sending off Will Smith, as the titular character, in angry trash-talking mode and making it charismatic and empathetic, as only Smith can. He plays a superhero who isn't good at being a superhero -- not that he lacks a moral compass,...
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One person’s trash is another person’s treasure, so the old saying goes. In WALL•E, the same holds true for robots. This Pixar animated movie depicts a dismal time in the future of our home planet. But it does so with humor and heart. After...
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Anyone looking for an action-filled G-force thriller need look no further than Universal’s Wanted, starring Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy. In this fast-paced film, based on the graphic novel by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones, Russian director Timur Bekmambetov has done for gravity-defying...
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Tickets were difficult to come by, as is, for Japan Society’s “50 Years with Akira Kurosawa: An Evening with Teruyo Nogami” and a reception and autographing of Ran DVDs and/or of the director’s producer-production manager-script supervisor-“right-hand woman’s” 2006 memoir,...
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Will Smith, Ron Perlman and Christian Bale promise to heat up July’s big screens as very different types of superheroes fighting against evil. Considering the diverse release schedule below, fans of musicals, comedies, girl power, action adventures and sci-fi films may also have...
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Grab-Bag Review
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Merely thinking about the idea behind Awake sends chills up and down my spine. Who doesn’t fear waking up during surgery before the operation is over? But my feeling about it verges on the pathological. Before...
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