Posts Tagged ‘book’
Mining Dad’s Sh*t For Gold Nuggets
Jeff PrinceThe success of this twitterer-turned-author must be difficult to take for frustrated, would be writers who could never finish that novel, or, worse, the ones who did and couldn’t get it published. A guy in his late 20s mo...
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KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Exit Through the Gift Shop (R) The reclusive street artist known as Banksy directs this documentary about French amateur documentarian Thierry Guetta and his futile attempts to meet Banksy. Also with Rhys Ifans and She...
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KRISTIAN LINOPENING: City Island (PG-13) Andy Garcia stars in this comedy as the head of a Bronx family that’s riddled with secrets. Also with Julianna Margulies, Steven Strait, Alan Arkin, Dominik GarcÃa-Lorido, Ezra Miller, and Emily ...
The Losers Is a Lost Cause
Logic goes out the window in this crappy shoot-’em-up.STEVE STEWARD
Based on an award-winning, Vertigo-published comic, The Losers is about a top-secret Special Forces unit’s quest for revenge on a shadowy figure named Max (Jason Patric), who ordered the commandos’ death following a mission...
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KRISTIAN LINOPENING: The Losers (PG-13) Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Idris Elba star as leaders of a CIA black ops team trying to discover who sold them out. Also with Zoë Saldana, Chris Evans, Columbus Short, Óscar Jaenada, and Jason Patric....
This Movie Is Kick-Ass
It’s also a psychotic, satirical ode to superheroes.KRISTIAN LIN
How do I describe the awesomeness of Kick-Ass? I could say this is the superhero flick that Watchmen desperately wanted to be, but that doesn’t quite cover it. I could call it a comic book fan’s dream come true, but then Iâ...
Night & Day
KRISTIAN LINWED ? 7 A new season for the Texas Rangers begins, this time with some legitimate hope for several reasons: last year’s impressive finish, the off-season additions of Rich Harden and Vladimir Guerrero, and the excitement that...
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KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Chloe (R) Atom Egoyan’s remake of Anne Fontaine’s French film Nathalie … stars Julianne Moore as a woman who suspects her husband (Liam Neeson) of infidelity and hires a prostitute (Amanda Seyfried) to test him. ...
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KRISTIAN LINOPENING: The Ghost Writer (PG-13) Roman Polanski’s adaptation of Robert Harris’ novel stars Ewan McGregor as a writer who learns some dangerous information while working with a former British prime minister (Pierce ...
A Million Little Peaces
ANTHONY MARIANIÂ Titled after his college nickname, Alex Lemon’s Happy is another in a slew of memoirs in the vein of Boy Meets Obstacle, Boy Overcomes Obstacle, Boy Finds Redemption. Typically in such books, a self-destructive young m...