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Will Ferrell’s charm (always a precarious
thing) depends wholly on his innocence. If you ever get the feeling he
knows better, Ferrell’s pushiness becomes insufferable, since every
vehicle h
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Hans Gruber is Santa Claus. This should be obvious even to those disadvantaged souls who didn’t grow up with Die Hard
on TV as the family yule log. Consider: Both have murky European
origins, bo
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There are two movies inside The Help, and you may as well know about both before your folks drag you to see them this Thanksgiving. One is a slightly self-congratulating tear-jerker about a whit
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Contagion was hailed as Stephen Soderbergh’s return to Traffic form, which is all well and good until you remember that Traffic is the worst film Soderbergh has made. Contagion is better, mostly bec
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Since Hollywood is forever bent on remaking its thrillers with more gore and less brains—the hee-haw replica of Straw Dogs is merely the latest example—we might as well get in on the ground floor.
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Twin girls hacked to pieces. Torrents of blood spilling from an elevator. Shelley Duvall. Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is full of creepy imagery. But it’s the film’s family dynamic that’s the
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Horror is driven by imitation, and there was no better
rip-off artist than Lucio Fulci. The Italian schlock-shock maestro built
a career nibbling from other, better movies. But perennial favorite Zo
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Shaun of the Dead has infected so many
imitators in seven years that the mention of Edgar Wright’s genre-bender
almost summons a reflexive twinge of dislike. I’m actually pretty bored
by the zo
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The knee-jerk response to Sarah Palin: You Betcha!
is that the Barracuda from Wasilla has gotten a documentary she richly
deserves, though it might be just as true that wanting to make a Sarah
Pali
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