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Film

  • Austen Powers

    By on December 7, 2005

    You don't have to be an rabid fan of Jane Austen to fully appreciate the romantic rush of the newly minted film version of Pride...

  • Squatter's Squalor

    By on November 30, 2005

    Christmas Angel: Heredia (center), with Rapp and Pascal One hundred thirty five minutes of my life wasted. One...

  • Magic Show

    By on November 30, 2005

    ''I love magic,'' beams Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) at the start of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. By the movie's end, however, Harry...

  • Cashing In

    By on November 16, 2005

    The problem with Walk the Line, the new biopic opening on Friday about the life of country music legend Johnny Cash, isn't Joaquin Phoenix --...

  • Marine Life

    By on November 9, 2005

    I've never been a big fan of war movies. (For that matter, I've never been a big fan of war.) But as a genre, they...

  • Gaul Fodder

    By on November 2, 2005

    The self-referential, Charlie Kaufman-esque twist to The Dying Gaul, opening Friday at Landmark's E Street Cinema, is the somewhat astounding fact that the movie was...

  • Country Courage

    By on October 26, 2005

    Congratulate Charlize Theron. She's got the Hollywood game figured out. And she's playing it like a pro, mixing the glamorous roles with the serious. You...

  • All Fogged Up

    By on October 19, 2005

    It's not every day I ask for help from readers -- but if any of you happened to catch the remake of The Fog last...

  • Resurrected Renegades

    By on October 5, 2005

    It's pretty much a given that everyone dying to see Serenity saw it this past weekend. As it stands, the film only racked up $10...

  • High Anxiety

    By on September 28, 2005

    In Flightplan, Jodie Foster -- her face taut with anxiety, her aqua eyes clear, alert, fueled by purpose -- plays a mother whose six-year-old daughter...

  • Disenchantment

    By on August 31, 2005

    In the latest edition of Entertainment Weekly, Terry Gilliam bellyaches about the poor quality of today's movies, in the process singling out Steven Spielberg and...

  • Wondrous Woman

    By on August 24, 2005

    Nobody spins better, or with more superheroic grace, than Lynda Carter. Indeed, for her latest role in Sky High, Carter -- forever revered as the...

  • Haunted Mansion

    By on August 17, 2005

    Children shouldn't play with dead things: Hudson In The Skeleton Key, Kate Hudson plays hospice worker Caroline Ellis, a spunky, care-filled young woman whose curiosity...

  • Superteen Spirit

    By on August 3, 2005

    ''The kids who get bitten by a radioactive spider or fall into a vat of toxic waste, their powers usually show up the next day,''...

  • Foul Ball

    By on July 27, 2005

    First the good news: Michael Ritchie's wonderful, utterly un-PC 1976 little league romp, Bad News Bears, is available on DVD. Now the bad: Richard Linklater's...