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Wait, was that _________ in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie?! Yes, it was: Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman)Hilary SwankNatalie Wood’s daughter Natasha Gregson WagnerNewsradio’s Jimmy JamesBen Affleck (yes, for a second)
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The Simpsons Movie is an extended episode of the series, with more nudity, swearing, and more pokes at Fox’s lame programming and advertising practices. Although there were frequent moments of “How the heck is this going to be part of the plot?” things really did come together. You will be humming “Spider-Pig” when you leave
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Let me begin by confessing that I write this review from the perspective of a grown man who has moved a medium-sized box of Transformers action figures from house to house 19 times over the course of his life. That said, I was a little disappointed by Transformers. What’s great about the film is that
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I’ve been meaning to write about Volver, the latest film from one of my most favorite filmmakers, for a little over a week. I bought the DVD recently, knowing I would not be disappointed, and I wasn’t. Volver takes for its occasion the brief snippet of the “novela negro” written by the lead character in
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Look at me, seeing more movies in the past few weeks than for most of last year… 28 Weeks Later is the zombie-filled sequel to Danny Boyle’s terrific 28 Days Later, which sort of single-handedly brought the zombie film back into vogue. This new film picks up—you guessed it—six months after the first as a
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Not one to pass on by a “Hitchcokian” thriller (or, a thriller of nearly any variety, really), I corralled some friends last weekend to go see Disturbia at my local neighborhood multiplex. It is a slow film. That doesn’t bother me; I’m a patient viewer and I can find many things to enjoy (visually/aurally/compositionally) about
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