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He’s no patch on Sean Connery, but Roger
Moore’s rigid, dutifully hedonist James Bond may be closer to the
original Fleming conception. You’ll have plenty of chances to compare,
as Beer and M
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If you’re in the mood for a
diverting if violent exercise, this weekend you can watch a 28-year-old
Vincent D’Onofrio as a doomed jarhead in Full Metal Jacket, then hop to Fox Tower and watch a
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There’s something a little vulgar about preferring the overkill of Aliens to the classic purity of Alien,
but I’ve always felt a helpless attraction to movies that traffic in
the trope of charac
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More than a mere appetizer to the Objectivist Happy Meals director Brad Bird would go on to make for Pixar, The Iron Giant
is one of the last, doomed stands of hand-drawn animation, and the rare
Ame
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While Beer and Movie presents Metalhaus and its 9-foot-tall Killbot at the Wonder Ballroom on Saturday night, it’s fitting that Tim Colley’s montage-cum-installation New Wave Hookers
plays in the
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Among the many attention-and-statuette-grabbing performances in The Fighter,
Mark Wahlberg’s work in the title role has been targeted as the
picture’s weak link—a void in the center of the rin
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It is now common to confuse George Lucas with Darth Vader, what with their both secluding themselves in an empire, tinkering with invisible forces and making Natalie Portman cry. However, there was a
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Many of the things I loved most as a child have turned out
to be terrible. The Kansas City Royals. The Kingston Trio. The
Republican Party. Happily, Follow That Bird is not on that
list. Sure, itâ€
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If you want a glimpse of Oregon’s LSD-lit legend Ken Kesey on the big screen, skip past Milos Forman’s cutesy-pie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; instead, try Nick Nolte in 1978’s Who’ll St
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I don’t know if Heavy Metal is a good movie, but it is an original and—in its crude way—a brave one. A fantasy cartoon urtext with SCTV voices, the 1981 omnibus hails from an era before fanboys
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