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Turn Out the Lights?
Are music corporations, with their emphasis on repetitive, easy-to-swallow sounds, quashing musical innovation? Are listeners demanding dumbed-down music? Is good music dead?
Several years ago,...
Training Day
Every big-budget action thriller needs a villain who artfully represents the audience's fear du jour. As Ryder, the subway-hijacking financial terrorist of Tony Scott's...
Film Shorts
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Adoration (R) Atom Egoyan's latest film is about a high-school student (Devon Bostick) who uses his French class assignment to unearth buried family secrets....
Big Fat Mess
A few years ago, a studio would've dropped a piece of dreck like My Life in Ruins into a graveyard movie month like March...
What Happens in Vegas…
Ever have one of those fits of hysterical laughter, when you're utterly terrified and yet somehow laughing instead of screaming? I had one of...
Film Shorts
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Anvil! The Story of Anvil (NR) Sacha Gervasi's documentary follows the 1980s Canadian heavy metal band in the present day as they return from...
Sigh-orama
Confession time: I love summer movies. I grew up on Jurassic Park, Independence Day, and the first run of Batman movies. I'd rather watch...
Housing Balloon
The best part of Pixar's new movie Up comes early on. The film starts with its main character, Carl Fredericksen, as a little boy...
Searching for Sonny
If you were intrigued by my profile of Andrew Disney, you can watch his short film Searching for Sonny here, while other teasers can...
Film Shorts
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The Brothers Bloom (PG-13) The second film by writer-director Rian Johnson (Brick) stars Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo as adopted brothers and con artists...
