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Nicolas Cage hasn't had a good month. Besides the financial troubles, his father passed away. The press day for The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans , directed by legend Werner Herzog , came about a week after that tragedy, and Cage shuffled in looking rather zombie-like. My own ...
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Nicolas Cage
Werner Herzog
> Pitt-fall strong> Pitt-fall The Bra in Brangelina just signed a deal to develop and star in a franchise based on a videogame that hasn't even come out yet. The game -- aptly titled Dark Void -- follows a pilot who crashes into the Bermuda Triangle and find himself on an alternate earth ...
Celebrities
Brad Pitt
The Verdict
McG
Dennis Hopper
Mario
"Entertaining enough for a family trip to the theater." Glipforg is just how you might imagine an idyllic American town in the 1950s: neighborly citizens greeting each other by name, driving Thunderbird-esque hovercrafts to their saucer-shaped homes, flipping floating ...
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"It's the very likable performances that give the film the most resonance." Speaking of being blindsided, The Blind Side is good enough to make me almost forgive Sandra Bullock for All About Steve , which is the worst movie I've seen this year. I wasn't sure I'd ever ...
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Sandra Bullock
All About Steve
The Proposal
"(Untitled) isn't just a takedown of highfalutin creative types but a smart, thoughtful deflating of their egos." Few subjects are more ripe for ridicule than pretentious artists, and Jonathan Parker 's (Untitled) skewers the world of contemporary art in a way that's ...
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Sarah Jessica Parker
"A legitimate artistic expression on love, loss, and the obsessive qualities of initial attraction." From the start of the moody and brooding opening title cards you know you're in for a better experience than the last go-round . Director Chris Weitz has delivered a ...
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New Moon
Chris Weitz
I know that in previous columns I have demonstrated a tendency to obsess over a film's title almost as much as its content, and while I strive to overcome that impulse I can't let it go in the case of Dracula 2000 . It got that title because it was set in present-day New Orleans rather than ...
Celebrities
If New Moon , the latest chapter in The Twilight Saga , has a break-out star, it would have to be Taylor Lautner . While Lautner appeared in last year's Twilight , it was a small role, a tease of what was to come for the book series' fans. This time around, the teenaged actor has packed on ...
Celebrities
New Moon
Taylor Lautner
Twilight
2012 wasn't quite apocalyptic at the box office, but it definitely busted down more than a few doors. People came in tidal waves to the movies this past weekend looking to see the world get destroyed in a major way, and boy, did they ever experience that. The facts are these: The visual ...
Celebrities
The Day After Tomorrow
Roland Emmerich
When you think of a vampire -- your basic Halloween bloodsucker, with the Eastern European accent, the black cape, and the slicked-back hair -- you're thinking of Bela Lugosi in Dracula . Even people who haven't seen the film can imitate the voice, or at least the version filtered through the ...
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Sesame Street
The Invisible
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
New Moon , the second chapter of The Twilight Saga , begins with every teen girl's favorite vampire, Edward Cullen ( Robert Pattinson ), breaking his beloved Bella's heart, sending her on a downward spiral she only narrowly survives. I sat down with Pattinson recently to discuss the movie, ...
Celebrities
New Moon
Robert Pattinson
Twilight
What I'm Seeing This Week The Blind Side : The trailer looks cheesy, but I've heard it's better than that snippet suggests. New Moon : The people who have seen it say it's better than the original, which wouldn't be all that difficult . By the way, there are still a few seats left in our ...
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New Moon
Claire Danes
"What stands out in All Saints Day isn't the violence or the action but rather the performances of all involved." Nine years ago The Boondock Saints hit the scene with little to no fanfare. But the film found its audience on DVD and over the years has become somewhat ...
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Boondock Saints 2
Duffy
Twilight may have been the most polarizing blockbuster of 2009. For every mob of Twi-hard tweens chasing Robert Pattinson down the streets of Hollywood, there seemed to be an equally aggressive mob complaining that Catherine Hardwicke had ruined their favorite book. Obviously, the film was ...
Celebrities
Twilight
New Moon
Robert Pattinson
Catherine Hardwicke
"Entertaining and honest." There's something inherently funny about carnivals. Whether it's the abundance of clowns, the games, the rides, the freak shows, the magic shows, or the carnies themselves, you throw them in a movie and there's almost an instantaneous chuckle ...
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"Most of the story is funny and cheerful, and it's bolstered by an utterly fantastic '60s rock soundtrack." In ancient historical times, i.e., 1966, the officially licensed radio stations in England didn't play rock 'n' roll music. That would have been no great loss in, ...
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The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
The Who
"2012 is good pulp." 2012 is the rare case of a bad film that I'm nevertheless obliged to recommend you see. And really, the first two hours are pretty solid, it's only in the last 40 minutes or so that the story slides directly off the rails. But the special effects? ...
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The Fantastic Mr. Fox , adapted from the Roald Dahl children's book by director Wes Anderson ( Rushmore , The Royal Tenenbaums ), has been the biggest cinematic surprise of this autumn for me. About an ex-chicken snatcher named Mr. Fox who, upon feeling cramped by his family-driven sedentary ...
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The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wes Anderson
Volcano is a very famous movie because it happened to come out two months after Dante's Peak , which was also about a volcano but which, lucky for the makers of Volcano , hadn't used the word "volcano" in its title. A similar phenomenon happened the next year, when Deep Impact ...
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Dante
Armageddon
Shrek
Diary
There's a little quiet indie movie being released this week called 2012 . If you haven't heard of it, check your local arty theater for more details. At the center of this low-budget affair is an actor I'm quite fond of. You know how we do here. It's time to evaluate and lay judgment. I'm not ...
