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Documentary Finds and Explores the Defiant Spirit of Female Artistsnew
The documentary film Who Does She Think She Is?, directed by Pamela Tanner Boll and Nancy Kennedy, follows five women as they balance the many facets of their lives and, although not without struggles, manage to do so quite successfully.
The Memphis Flyer |
Hannah Sayle |
02-12-2010 |
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The Safety of Objects: The Art of 'Summer Hours'new
Some undisclosed time after a celebratory birthday party at her posh but weather-beaten French country home, lively and elegant matriarch Hélène (Edith Scob) dies, leaving her eldest son Frédéric (Charles Berling) to divide the loot with his two siblings.
The Memphis Flyer |
Addison Engelking |
02-05-2010 |
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The Latest 'Bad Lieutenant' Isn't Good or Bad. It Just Isnew
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (why the "Port of Call" part? Who knows! Who cares!) is a conventional detective thriller in basic form, but the procedural elements are sometimes listless.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
01-22-2010 |
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Robert De Niro Settles Down in a Travelogue Family Dramanew
Everybody's Fine is sort of like a square version of the more lauded recent Jack Nicholson vehicle About Schmidt, and its squareness is the main reason I prefer it.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
12-07-2009 |
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'Every Little Step' Is a Life-Affirming Look at Performancenew
Every Little Step, the absorbing documentary about the 2006 revival of the Broadway hit A Chorus Line — in other words, a movie about the casting of a musical that's about actors auditioning for a musical — is a rabbit hole well worth tumbling down.
The Memphis Flyer |
Addison Engelking |
06-26-2009 |
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After 49 Years, Red West Gets His First Starring Role -- and It's a Doozynew
Though a relatively short, simple film, Goodbye Solo is rich with emotion, incident, color, and mystery. And this little indie hit has done wonders for Memphis native Red West: at 72, after 49 years in the business, he's become an overnight success.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
05-15-2009 |
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'The Express' is Silly, Simplistic, and Absurdnew
Gary Fleder's film is an unspeakably twee and sanitized Ernie Davis biopic that transforms this tale of an athlete dying young into a work of groan-inducing campiness.
The Memphis Flyer |
Addison Engelking |
10-20-2008 |
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'Eagle Eye' is Like Hitchcock for Moronsnew
If you leave your brains with the ticket-taker, then there's a good chance you might enjoy Eagle Eye, the stripped-down, hyperactive new chase film executive-produced by Steven Spielberg.
The Memphis Flyer |
Addison Engelking |
10-03-2008 |
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Tags: Steven Spielberg, Eagle Eye
Battle Fatigue Settles in on Spike Lee's WWII Epicnew
So why is his new film such an interminable, unfocused, ridiculous mess?
The Memphis Flyer |
Addison Engelking |
10-03-2008 |
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Tags: Spike Lee, Miracle at St. Anna
'Hounddog': Amorphous Southern Soupnew
Even before its premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, Hounddog was known as "the Dakota Fanning rape movie." The film got a lot of notoriety but for more than a year, until this spring, couldn't get a distributor.
The Memphis Flyer |
Greg Akers |
09-19-2008 |
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'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2': This One's for the Girlsnew
Just as Sex & the City scored big by providing an alternative to a summer of boycentric popcorn cinema, this reunion of four attractive, relatable TV-identified actresses tries to do the same for a younger and (hopefully) more innocent demographic.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
08-08-2008 |
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'The Children of Huang Shi' Offers a Middling Historical Dramanew
The film is a "based on a true story" movie that feels about nine degrees removed from what probably really did happen -- and that within those degrees was probably a more interesting story.
The Memphis Flyer |
Greg Akers |
07-07-2008 |
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'Sex and the City' Movie Strictly for the Fansnew
Sex and the City in movie form comes with all the delights, pitfalls and plot twists of a full season of the HBO series.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Harrington |
06-06-2008 |
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Jet Li and Jackie Chan Team Up for Fun Action Flicknew
Director Rob Minkoff has crafted the first great action flick of the year, the kind of film you want to roll up and stick in your back pocket so you can whip it out and whap action-movie naysayers on the nose.
The Memphis Flyer |
Addison Engelking |
04-25-2008 |
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'Under the Same Moon' Humanizes the Immigration Issuenew
The feature film debut of director Patricia Riggen follows the long-distance parent-child relationship between Rosario, a woman who has crossed the border from Mexico to seek work in Los Angeles, and Carlitos, the 9-year-old son she left behind with her mother.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
04-18-2008 |
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