Film
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Bad Omen
When I was a moviegoing teenager, two movies scared the devil out of me: The Exorcist and The Omen -- the first for its unrelenting,...
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Broken
Early in The Break-Up, Brooke Meyers (Jennifer Aniston) asks her boyfriend, Gary Grobowski (Vince Vaughn), to help with the dishes after a dinner party. Absorbed...
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Mutant Fortified
McKellen as 'Magneto' (3rd from left) and Janssen as 'Phoenix' (far right) X-Men: The Last Stand, the third installment in the ultra-popular movie series based...
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Adult Drown
Well, they've gone and done it. They've stripped the ''adventure'' out of The Poseidon Adventure, leaving, fittingly enough, just Poseidon. That's not to say Wolfgang...
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Mission Forgettable
Mission: Impossible III should end with a warning: ''This movie will self-destruct in 5 seconds.'' I'm not kidding. Five seconds after leaving the big kickoff...
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Hard Satire
Satire in the movies. On the one hand, it can be sharp, biting, memorably dark. On the other hand, it can be crass, base, instantly...
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Lucky Boy
One of Alfred Hitchcock's favorite recurring themes was that of the wrong man, an acute case of mistaken identity that often took the hero on...
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Crime Solvers
As detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) trudges home after a long day, he quietly enters his bedroom, and from the right side of the room...
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Rabble Rousing
V for Vendetta is a rich and strange little nugget of a movie. Based on a 25-year-old comic book by the famously eccentric Alan Moore,...
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Naked Launch
How you respond to Failure to Launch depends on a number of factors: Your mood at the time of theater entry. Your general disposition toward...
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Urban Blockage
Almost every major movie star has an archetype they can comfortably fall back on when needed. This not only serves to appease their most ardent...
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Oscar, Oscar, Oscar!
This Sunday we will know. We will know if Brokeback Mountain, a traditional unrequited love story cut from traditional Hollywood cloth but featuring a non-traditional...
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Sex in the City
Just after the film begins to roll in Gay Sex in the 70s, director Joseph Lovett tells the photographer he's preparing to interview that the...
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Boiling Over
Has anyone else noticed that Julianne Moore keeps playing women whose kids go missing? In The Forgotten, her boy was grabbed by aliens. In Freedomland,...
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Unpretty in Pink
February has never been a good month for movies, but this year the pickings seem awfully, well... awful. Last weekend's three major studio releases included...
