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Robert Englund Fesses Upnew
Robert Englund, the man who donned the burn marks, tattered fedora and steel fingers of Freddy Krueger for the Nightmare On Elm Street series, crept into town last week to scare up some publicity for his latest blood-and-guts role in Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer.
NOW Magazine |
Radheyan Simonpillai |
07-28-2008 |
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'Brideshead Revisited' Gets Refocused for the Big Screennew
It's taken more than 60 years to bring Evelyn Waugh's best-known novel to the big screen. The 133-minute feature isn’t entirely faithful to the book's details and expresses more ambivalence about religion than Waugh might have wished, but it captures the theme of moral responsibility in an evenhanded way that should speak to believers and nonbelievers alike.
Chicago Reader |
Albert Williams |
07-28-2008 |
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'Brideshead Revisited' Doesn't Seduce Like the Originalnew
The Granada TV Brideshead Revisited may not have had all that much relevance to viewers in 1981, but during 11 lovingly detailed hours spent with the pastoral gentry of England between the wars, they got sucked in.
The Georgia Straight |
Ken Eisner |
07-25-2008 |
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The New X-Files Movies Sucksnew
There was a lot of secrecy surrounding the new X-Files movie, and know we know why.
The Georgia Straight |
Steve Newton |
07-25-2008 |
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Miss Mulder and Scully? Watch the Re-runsnew
The truth is still out there, like an unsold lawn chair at a garage sale, in this just plain lousy second big-screen outing for erstwhile FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
07-25-2008 |
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Young-Adult Fiction: 'American Teen'new
High school heroes and zeros roam the halls of alleged documentary.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
07-25-2008 |
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'Step Brothers' Finds Will Ferrell Regressing and Repeating Himselfnew
The problem is not that Ferrell has ceased to be funny, although his shtick is clearly wearing thin; the problem is that he and collaborator Adam McKay, with whom he worked on Anchorman and Talladega Nights, have abandoned all goals other than to "be funny" in the most desperate, overblown and ultimately grating manner.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Josh Bell |
07-25-2008 |
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The Question Isn't 'Why Make Another X-Files Movie,' but Rather, 'Why Not'?new
The thrill is gone, but we shouldn't discount the place for epilogues and endings in pop culture. Now a couple, Mulder and Scully discuss and banter some more (and it's a lot more interesting than conversations about the mortgage or taking out the garbage), and they get to ride off into the sunset.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
07-25-2008 |
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Summer in the Citynew
An odd-couple pairing between a teenage pot dealer and the shrink with whom he trades weed for sessions anchors this story about coming of age in New York City during the Nineties.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
07-24-2008 |
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Tags: The Wackness, Jonathan Levine
Ice-age Excursion From German Visionary Werner Herzog.new
Filmmaker Werner Herzog is legendary for his tireless quests to capture mankind’s attempt to conquer the unconquerable. From the title character, a Spanish soldier, in Aguirre, the Wrath of God who makes a ruthless march toward the city of gold to the real-life jungle prisoner Dieter Dengler in Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Herzog’s subjects first must be humbled before they can be redeemed.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
07-24-2008 |
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'Quid Pro Quo' Dabbles in Disabilitynew
A quasi-psychological thriller based around the subculture of "wannabes" who identify as, or wish to be, disabled, it completely sidesteps any real explanation of its own premise in favor of directional switcheroos.
The Portland Mercury |
Marjorie Skinner |
07-24-2008 |
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'Sputnik Mania': The Cold War Heats Upnew
Sputnik Mania looks back at those days with expertly used archival footage, along with contemporary interviews and even-keeled narration from Liev Schreiber.
The Portland Mercury |
Ned Lannamann |
07-24-2008 |
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No Thank You for the Musicnew
Pierce Brosnan's crooning in Mamma Mia! will have you desperately sending out an S.O.S.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
07-24-2008 |
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Tags: Phyllida Lloyd, Mamma Mia!
Experiment in Horrornew
If you're stoned, Mother of Tears may be incredibly amusing.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
07-24-2008 |
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Tags: Dario Argento, Mother of Tears
'Step Brothers' is to Humor what Rape is to Sexnew
The latest Judd Apatow-produced slab of celluloid from Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly is their most blatant exercise in desperation yet.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
07-24-2008 |
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