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‘Twilight’ success has turned Robert Pattinson into a global star
LOS ANGELES — Maybe it can be dismissed as simply his...
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Nick Prueher would never wish his career on anyone...
BIFF: Just give him a camera
The National is a band of brothers. Aaron Dessner, on guitar and keyboard, and his twin brother Bryce, on guitar, are joined by Scott and Bryan Devendorf on bass and drums. Then there’s the odd-man-out: Matt Berninger, lead singer of the indie rock band...
Lucy goosey
It doesn’t work this way with people, but there’s a level of confident stupidity a movie can display that makes it endearing. Lucy is that kind of stupid. Cocksure and confidently, it swaggers around, daring you to question any of the unimaginable number of ...
Muted meditations
I giggle, snicker and titter anytime someone opens the thesaurus piñata to describe a film like Certain Women with synonyms like “quietly modest” or “methodically...
reel to reel | Week of Dec. 8, 2011
Arthur Christmas See full review Page 37. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Raised and trained in the rigorous Tibetan monastic tradition, Trungpa came to the West and shattered ...
Savage beauty and the beasts
They should hand out oxygen tanks before each screening of Beasts of the Southern Wild because writer/director Benh Zeitlin’s debut feature film takes your breath in the very first scene and plays keep away with it for more than 90 minutes. When people kvetch about ...
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize in Documentary at the Sundance...
A penetrating look at death and dying, How to Die in Oregon is an HBO-produced documentary that explores the lives of people suffering from debilitating terminal illness. Oregon was the first state in the nation to legalize physician-assisted suicide in 1994, and, ...
Sam and Max deliver the laughs again
It was a boring weekday night when I stumbled across what I thought was a relic from my youth: a Sam and Max video game, fully restored and buyable from the Playstation Network store. But I was wrong. Delightfully wrong. The game I had found was Sam & Max: The Devil...
Hugh catch a predator?
If you like smiling and aren’t criminally demented, Prisoners is a damn rough watch. Stuffed to the gills with child abduction, overmedicated depression and familial implosions, director Denis Villeneuve’s bloated whodunit is a puppy suicide away from the most ...
