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Racing Dreams: You’ve Got a Fast Kart
How cool is it that we’ve had so many notable documentaries showing at our multiplexes lately? There’s even better news: Racing Dreams is the...
Shrek Forever After: Fairy-Tale Ending
Sobering reflection of the day: The little kids who are old enough to remember seeing the original Shrek in theaters are teenagers now. Similarly,...
The Not Gay Actor (or, WTF, Ramin Setoodeh?)
Ramin Setoodeh’s recent culture piece in Newsweek last week has set off quite the conflagration in the gay blogosphere, with repercussions for those of...
Film Shorts
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Robin Hood (PG-13) Russell Crowe re-teams with director Ridley Scott in this latest version of the adventure tale. Also with Cate Blanchett,...
Few Shocks in A Surprise in Texas
Let’s get this out of the way: The reason A Surprise in Texas is getting a theatrical release is because a blind guy won...
Letters to Juliet: Under the Tuscan Suck
Amanda Seyfried is clearly bidding to become America’s romantic-comedy sweetheart, and I’m afraid that she’ll succeed at it. The 24-year-old with the feline eyes...
Babies, Babies, Babies
I’m glad Kristian Lin didn’t jump on the doting nanny bandwagon in his review of the documentary Babies. A friend invited me to see...
Film Shorts
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Exit Through the Gift Shop (R) The reclusive street artist known as Banksy directs this documentary about French amateur documentarian Thierry Guetta and his...
Babies: I Was Born, But …
I don’t have children. If I did, I’d probably see many movies differently. Take Babies, for instance. This documentary has drawn plenty of oohs...
City Island: An Actor Prevaricates
Writer-director Raymond De Felitta made an excellent movie in 2000 called Two Family House, a drama that drew heavily on his early life and...
