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‘Howl’ is arty and difficult, and exactly right for the Sundance...

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PARK CITY, Utah — We were not even four hours into Sundance John Cooper-style...

The place where imagination becomes real

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Just as every journey begins with a single step, a lifetime of passion blossoms from a simple aha moment. “My junior year in college I...

Thanks, Morgan Freeman

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I’ll be honest, in the spirit of the honestly shameless heartwarmer Dolphin Tale. I saw it in a somewhat distracted, agitated state...

The age of innocence

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Jo March is elated. A few moments earlier, she was in excruciating pain: Another pie-eyed scribbler stranded on the non-editorial side of the desk. Too shy to...

British invasion in ‘Pirate Radio’

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Any film that’s built around the music of the mid-1960s starts out with one thing going for it: a great soundtrack. That Pirate Radio goes beyond that and offers up an entertaining and poignant story about loss of innocence is what makes it a film well worth your ...

One is the loneliest number

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Antonio Pane (Antonio Albanese) is a 48-year-old blue-collar journeyman who has spent his life bouncing from odd job to odd job. Some days he is a cook at a five-star restaurant, on others he could be cleaning out coffins or ripping apart cars at a junk yard. It’s ...

reel to reel | Week of Dec. 1, 2011

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Arthur Christmas Arthur Christmas is not a perfect gift, but it does feature enough holiday cheer and silly fun to make it more entertaining than 10 lords a-leaping. It helps that the film has a warm message about how tradition should never be sacrificed for ...

‘New Moon’ a tick better than first ‘Twilight’

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The Twilight Saga: New Moon, also known as "Twilight: The Squeakquel," is actually pretty good — a tick better than the...

Are you not entertained?!

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Another epic tale about incredibly powerful beings fighting against one another with melodramatic overtones? Ugh.” – Theater critics in ancient Greece reacting to the latest play about Gods and mortals Whenever a new cinematic comic book adaptation hits — and, ...

Play these movies loud

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It was just over a year ago, on March 6, 2020, when South By Southwest (SXSW) pulled the plug on its film, music and...

How to make friends

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A cross far too many stretches of our movie-going lives, we see movie after movie without seeing one that really moves. At once stealthy and breathlessly paced, The Social Network scoots at a fabulous clip, depicting how its version of Facebook founder Mark ...

Boring vampire sex

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The fourth film in the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn: Part 1 reveals a flash or two of real filmmaking (mostly in a suggestively grotesque birthing sequence), enough to save it from pure lousiness...