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- By Loron Hays
Lake Bell, after surviving the supporting actress stranglehold for a number of years, breaks out on her own with In a World…, a movie she writes, directs, and stars in. The movie subverts the romantic comedy genre by humorously tackling the male-dominated ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
There’s a bothersome disconnect between the story being told in The Book Thief and what we see on the screen. Set in a small German town during the years surrounding the beginning of World War II, as Hitler’s villainous reign of control for hearts and minds is ramping up ...
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Matthew McConaughey is on a roll. A career that just a few years ago seemed headed towards irrelevance with a run of really bad romantic comedies, has since about-faced and now appears to be culminating with his Oscar-worthy turn in Dallas Buyers Club ...
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Ender’s Game, the popular 1985 sci-fi novel widely believed unfilmable, finally gets a big screen adaptation some thirty years after it set the teen literature world on fire with its prescient view of future technology and astute insights into human nature. But there’s ...
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- By Loron Hays
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Four friends enter the city limits of Las Vegas for some casual hedonism… Yeah, I thought so. There’s certainly nothing new in Last Vegas and, if you are anything like me, very little in the commercials to entice you ...
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MTV’s Jackass franchise – now in its 13th year – grows old rather gracefully and spins off with Johnny Knoxville under heavy old man-prosthetic-makeup as he sends up the golden years of life. Yes, Knoxville as 86-year-old Irving Zisman gets his own movie. You’ve ....
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Why do we try to live? What incredible force in the human spirit drives us to keep fighting when death’s rap is sounding our time to go? Since the beginning of time, theologians and philosophers have been tackling these age-old questions which are at ...
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Directed by Kimberly Peirce with a screenplay by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Carrie is yet another reshaping of Stephen King’s novel that, rather quickly, bites the dust. Hollywood will never learn to leave the past alone; I acknowledge that. Unfortunately, there’s simply ...
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Don Jon, which represents Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s directorial and screenwriting debut, is not a message movie, but it does have a message. The idea behind the film, which has been buzzing around in the actor’s head for years, is an earnest but highly entertaining ...
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I’ve never been impressed by Woody Allen. Personal life aside, I find most of his movies to be dramatically too dialogue heavy, and his situations presented to the characters to be morally objectionable nine chances out of ten. He’s a conflicting personality in that ...
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- Death of a Princess - The Story of Grace Kelly's Fatal Car Crash
- Joaquin Phoenix 911 Call - River Phoenix - Viper Room
- Screen Legend Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79
- Suicide and the Hollywood Sign - The Girl Who Jumped from the Hollywood Sign
- The Amityville Horror House
- The Black Dahlia Murder - The Death of Elizabeth Short
- The Death of Actress Jane Russell
- The Death of Brandon Lee
- The Death of Chris Farley
- The Death of Dominique Dunne
- The Death of George Reeves - the Original Superman