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April 14, 2007 01:59 PM EDT --
As a writer, I always get a personal thrill from watching another author put down the pen and paper for a moment to get behind (or in front of) the camera. There's no passing the buck at this point, . . .
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April 09, 2007 09:30 PM EDT --
Grindhouse isn't just a double-feature from two of the smartest, most enjoyable filmmakers of today, it's an experience, a deliberate package of hackneyed dialog and exploitative gore that's . . .
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April 01, 2007 02:37 AM EDT --
For this competition to work, we need judges! We're looking for anyone and everybody, so come on down and join TELL ME WHAT TO WATCH, the monthly competition where you nominate films to fit the . . .
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March 26, 2007 02:30 AM EDT --
Is there a worse thing than countryman killing countryman? Yes: brother killing brother. Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley, a period piece about the creation of the IRA, . . .
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March 23, 2007 07:16 PM EDT --
On the book jacket, Dave Eggers calls Daniel Handler "an American Nabokov," Michael Chabon calls him a "literary conjurer," and Daniel Handler calls himself "an internationally . . .
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March 22, 2007 01:38 PM EDT --
When I joined Gather, it wasn't so much to be a correspondent as it was to connect with other people out there who had the same passions as I did for theater, film, television, books . . . well, the . . .
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March 20, 2007 12:01 AM EDT --
Monster flicks are, by nature, improbable. But at least the dexterous, tail-snapping mutant amphibian of Korean horror film The Host is the only thing that's improbable. Joon-ho Bong directs with a . . .
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March 18, 2007 02:02 AM EDT --
My my my, how trailers lie. I had the fortune of covering the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival, and saw an early release of Lonely Hearts there. It's not a bad film (and you can read more here), . . .
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March 15, 2007 02:28 PM EDT --
The Book of Lost Things is a decent book, but it's also misleading, disappointing, and not something I'd recommend. The premise is promising: a twelve-year-old boy flees the troubles of his English . . .
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March 12, 2007 06:17 PM EDT --
There are already plenty of reviews posted here in favor of 300, Zack Snyder's highly stylized adaptation of an already highly stylized graphic novel by Frank Miller about the Spartan defense of Thermopylae. . . .
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March 05, 2007 12:56 PM EST --
I thought I'd introduce a new addition to my regular INDEPENDENT THOUGHT column, a bi-weekly mockery of the most shameless fluff out on the market right now: movie trailers. We see so many of . . .
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March 04, 2007 06:42 PM EST --
In the age of Cops, it's perhaps not as necessary to make fun of the police as it once was with Police Squad!, but if there's going to be a film about bumbling procedurals, I'm glad it's . . .
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March 01, 2007 12:35 PM EST --
The Terror isn't historical fiction -- unless you believe in giant demons summoned by Esquimaux shamans -- but with such believably accurate, painstaking depictions and details, Dan Simmons's latest . . .
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February 19, 2007 05:49 PM EST --
Roughly every two years, Pedro Almodovar rolls out another quirky but classical film about families in distress. What's astonishing is not that his films are all excellent—only in America is . . .
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February 12, 2007 07:45 PM EST --
The Last King of Scotland may be remembered as a political film for the ease in which it portrays the circular violence of Uganda, or it may be remembered as a period piece, blending culture with the grainy . . .
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February 06, 2007 10:21 PM EST --
As I sit in the theater, yawning through another lopsidedly terse moment of The Messengers, I find myself saying, “Well, what else do you expect from the writer who proudly brought us Jason X?” . . .
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February 04, 2007 11:48 PM EST --
The story of the What (as told by the elders of Marial Bai, recounted by Valentino Achak Deng, and now fictionalized in What is the What by Dave Eggers) is a morality tale, a test of man's capacity . . .
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January 31, 2007 01:22 PM EST --
I guess angry families of America ran out of steam when it came to a small low-budget film called Hound Dog that had suggestive themes of child rape paired with the adorable go-to-kid Dakota Fanning. . . .
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January 31, 2007 12:37 AM EST --
Seraphim Falls is a tried and true Western; unfortunately, that just means it's like all the others before it. HBO's Deadwood managed to revitalize the genre by keeping the camera on those emotionally . . .
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January 15, 2007 03:13 AM EST --
Europe Central. Infinite Jest. Midnight's Children. I'm talking big, meaty, serious books.
House of Leaves. Jitterbug Perfume. I'm talking crazy, alternative, . . .
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