Film
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Star Bright
It's all about the song. So potent is its power -- and so much more powerful in the hands of the artist who sings it...
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Uberdull
Sometimes in show business, it's good to have a gimmick to generate interest in your product. The gimmick deployed by Steven Soderbergh for The Good...
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Bling Bang
''In America, it's bling bling. Out here it's bling bang,'' says diamond smuggler Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) to American journalist Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly), of...
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Boys on Film
What The History Boys is about, exactly, is open to some interpretation. A theater enthusiast might simply offer that, during its Broadway run this year,...
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Destiny's Child
An adoring, profanity-laced love note to the fans who helped push Jack Black up the stairway to fame, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny...
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Strong Bond
For all the public furor Bond fans made when Pierce Brosnan was shelved after 2002's Die Another Day, only to be replaced for Casino Royale...
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Unwelcome Guest
Sometimes you slip on a banana peel and the results produce laughter. Other times you slip and wind up in traction, taking meds for the...
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Busload
''There are so few American films that use sex in a complicated way,'' says Shortbus director John Cameron Mitchell on a recent weekday afternoon at...
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Social Study
Rarely have I heard an audience erupt in the manner in which they did during a key scene in Borat. An explosive startled laughter quickly...
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Magic Free
In the world of movies, coming attractions are the ultimate sleight-of-hand, a misdirection to make you think that what you will be getting is better...
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Killer Queen
In The Queen, Helen Mirren, portraying Queen Elizabeth II, gives perhaps her most remarkable performance in an already remarkable career. She vanishes completely into the...
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Revenge of the Nerd
Watching Jon Heder in School for Scoundrels, one can't help but wonder what will happen to the 29-year-old's career once he outgrows his geekiness and...
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Unsolved Misery
Vilmos Zsigmond, cinematographer. Dante Ferretti, production designer. Mark Isham, composer. Hilary Swank, actress. These are not film industry names normally associated with cinematic belly flops....
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Ray of Light
The last few weeks of August are beyond miserable. At least where moviegoing is concerned. Every so often, however, a ray of sunshine peeps through...
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Plain Snakes
In Snakes on a Plane, Samuel L. Jackson stars as FBI agent Neville Flynn, a man who must contend with, as you must know by...
