Movie Reviews & Stories
Odds were that Steven Soderbergh’s career of genre
hopscotching would eventually land on a male stripper movie. Taking bits
from Midnight Cowboy, Boogie Nights and, strangely, Coyote Ugly,
the
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Movie Reviews & Stories
Few threats are as amorphous and frightening as breast
cancer. It is nature’s violent misogyny, sex and death bound up far too
tightly. Small wonder, I suppose, that Avon or Revlon or Susan G. K
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Movie Reviews & Stories
Can it really be true that through a dozen films,
Pixar—the North American animation titan celebrated for its multilayered
storytelling and uncommonly complex characters—declined to come up wi
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Movie Reviews & Stories
In a world where the Armageddon
plan of attack didn’t work and the asteroid is still coming for us, a
dialed-down Steve Carell sits listening to a forecast of the end of the
world. His wife fl
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Surviving Progress, Mathieu Roy and Harold Crook’s harangue against modern civilization, is Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
for those who prefer their pre-apocalypse movies aggressively
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Rock of Ages will bash your brains in, and not in the good way.
Movie Reviews & Stories
At the 2009 Tony Awards, Poison singer Bret Michaels
performed his band’s 20-year-old party anthem “Nothin’ but a Good Time”
in conjunction with Rock of Ages, a Broadway musical glorifying
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Parsing the not-many voices of America’s laziest comedian.
Movie Reviews & Stories
At this point, it’s clear Adam Sandler is just trolling
us. He’s self-aware enough to know he’s the laziest, most
cash-grabbingest comic actor in the country. You can’t even hate him for
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How telling, in hindsight, is that scene in The Royal Tenenbaums
where Gene Hackman tries to restore Gwyneth Paltrow to her childhood by
taking her to an ice cream parlor where the speakers play V
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