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Reel to reel | Week of August 2, 2012

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THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN...

Neeson vs. wolf

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The title 8 Million Ways to Die was already taken, so The Grey had to settle for The Grey, named for the plus-size wolves waging war on the desperate human survivors of an Alaskan wilderness plane crash. Tough situation. Frostbite. Wolf bite. Drowning. Falling from ...

‘Life in plastic’

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Storytelling is creativity within limitations. And when your story takes place in a fantasy world — be it with dragons, lightsabers or toys —...

‘Living Dead Girl’

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She was born Norma Jean Baker in 1926, but she died Marilyn Monroe in 1962. Between those two dates and names lived one of...

Everybody wants to rule the world

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For Nikola Tesla, it all started with a cat. Specifically, a black cat named Macak, a feline friend from Tesla’s boyhood. One day while...

Mamma Roma

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Few filmmakers are as divisive as the great Italian Pier Paolo Pasolini. He was a novelist, a poet and a provocateur even before he...

Puttin’ on the ritz

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Horror movies are wondrous things. With a horror movie, one can confront their deepest darkest fears and survive them. The rush of adrenaline at the sight of danger gives way to the sigh of relief and chuckle of amusement when that danger is revealed to be harmless. ...

Control-Z Cruise

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Every time Tom Cruise, the greatest modern matinee idol, makes a new movie, everybody rushes to fuse artist and art and spews out some variation of “I just don’t like him anymore.” America’s collective moral stance seems to be that we should never forget that someone...

Salute your shorts

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Past, present and future moviemakers will gather on March 12 at the Dolby Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard to celebrate the best of 2022. Ten...

Home viewing: Palme d’Or winners

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The origins of France’s Cannes Film Festival lay not in La République, but neighboring Italy. Specifically, 1937’s Venice Film Festival, when Benito Mussolini stuck...

Funny noir die

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Sporting dialogue hotter than a recently spent shell casing and comedy slightly less dark than a necrophiliac stand-up comedian’s set, The Nice Guys targets...

From a second-rate Bette Davis to a first-rate auteur

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They say the future of film is female. It is. But so is the past. Maybe that’s not evident upon first glance — certainly not...