All posts by Randy Shulman
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Oscar, Oscar, Oscar!
This Sunday we will know. We will know if Brokeback Mountain, a traditional unrequited love story cut from traditional Hollywood cloth but featuring a non-traditional...
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Boiling Over
Has anyone else noticed that Julianne Moore keeps playing women whose kids go missing? In The Forgotten, her boy was grabbed by aliens. In Freedomland,...
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Velvet Touch
It's turning out to be a banner year for Will Gartshore. Last week, the actor nabbed two Helen Hayes Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor...
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Unpretty in Pink
February has never been a good month for movies, but this year the pickings seem awfully, well... awful. Last weekend's three major studio releases included...
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Cracked
Summer of 2003 changed everything for Lucas Zarwell. The forensic scientist was satisfying his creative side, assembling a one-time variety show with Cherry Red's avant-garde...
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The Weinstein Touch
Advertisement Transamerica The Weinstein Company is off to a solid start. Founded by brothers Harvey and Bob, who were recently ousted from their posts-on-high at...
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London Calling
To a natural-born cynic like myself, the pre-release hype for Woody Allen's latest -- Match Point -- was almost too much to bear. Virtually every...
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Comic Abroad
In Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, comedian Albert Brooks is approached by the U.S. government to find out what makes Muslims laugh. He...
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Reigning Leather
It's a question he hears all the time: ''Is that your real name?'' Yes, in fact, Steve Ranger is his God-given name. ''I'm just grateful...
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Leather Scribe
In October, 1971, Marcus Hernandez put pen to paper and began covering the San Francisco leather community. At age 74, he's still writing. Penned under...
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Torture Garden
I'll admit to feeling a certain dread walking into Hostel last weekend. After all, as much as I love the horror film genre, I fall...
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The Year in Review 2005
Now that 2005 is finally over, we can decide whether the last twelve months constituted an annus horribulus or an annus mirabilis. Well, it depends...
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Cinema Magic
In the world of movies, 2005 will be a year remembered for the birth of Darth Vader and the death of King Kong (third time's...
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Great Ape
With King Kong, director Peter Jackson follows up a monster achievement -- the massively ambitious Lord of the Rings trilogy -- with a massively ambitious,...
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Film Reviews: Brokeback Mountain and The Chronicles of Narnia
'Brokeback Mountain' is every bit as good as you've wished, while 'Narnia' is more engaging than you might expect
