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I can almost appreciate what the folks behind The Strangers were trying to do: Create a bare bones horror film using nothing more than an unhappy couple (Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman), a big house in the proverbial “middle of  nowhere,” and a group of creepy people wearing masks and sacks over their heads. [...]

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Sex and the City ran for six seasons on HBO and, amazingly, it never once jumped the shark. If anything, the final seasons were its strongest—with the show’s addictive blend of fashion, sex, friendship, and clever bon mots honed to near perfection. When the show went off the air in 2004, women around the [...]

Although I knew he was sick, so at least it didn’t come as a total shock, I’m tremendously sad about the death of director/actor Sydney Pollack, who succumbed to cancer yesterday at the too-young age of 73.
Sydney Pollack has directed two of my all-time favorite films—Tootsie (quite simply, a perfect comedy) and The Way We [...]

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Young @ Heart, a documentary about a chorus of senior citizens who sing rock and punk songs, works, fabulously, on three different levels.
For one, it’s a performance film, complete with a tough yet devoted choral director, disastrous rehearsals, back stage jitters, and unforeseen obstacles en route to the big show.
Next, it’s a film about [...]

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We can all agree that sequels made several years after the fact are generally duds. For proof, look no farther than The Godfather 3, The Two Jakes, and the recent crop of Star Wars prequels. (For the record, there are also horrible, delayed sequels to Terms of Endearment and The Last Picture Show—doesn’t [...]

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Sadly for me, all the things I liked best about the original Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe—Tilda Swinton’s icily mesmerizing White Witch; James McAvoy’s puckish Mr. Tumnus; the refreshingly realistic sibling rivalry among the Pevensie children; the talking beavers; those crazy-delicious cupcakes (just checking to see if you were [...]

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An unapologetically sentimental cross between Be Kind, Rewind and Stand By Me, Son of Rambow is about the importance of boyhood friendships and the gloriously unhinged pleasures of homemade movie making.
It’s the early 1980s in England and 10-year-old Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) has led a very sheltered life. His father died of a sudden [...]

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When I saw The Matrix for the first time, I was tempted to give it a one word review: “Cool.” With its fresh use of CGI martial arts effects, dense mythology, and, of course, those billowing leather coats, the movie was cool—and the Wachowski Brothers seemed like a major force to be reckoned with. [...]

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It’s hard to muster up a whole lot of enthusiasm for What Happens in Vegas.  After all, any film about the battle of the sexes that breaks out the old “why must guys leave the toilet seat up?” chestnut (more than once no less) is inherently lazy. Why should I care when the filmmakers [...]

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There are very few super heroes you’d actually want to hang out with. I mean, Batman is all dark and gloomy, and Superman is a bit of a stiff, and Spiderman is way too angst-ridden. However, I’d hit the town with billionaire inventor and playboy Tony Stark, a.k.a Iron Man, anytime. You see, Tony [...]