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Movie Review: King of the (Cheap) Thrill
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Rush out of the theater. Now.
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Cast is only redeeming aspect of ‘Georgia Rule’
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“Georgia Rule” (2007) begins and ends on a highway outside a small town in Idaho.
Japanese Film Festival: Catch great new wave flicks, starting this weekend!
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1960 was an important year in the history of Japanese film.
‘Graduate?’ Calm down, we mean the movie!
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Who’s in, who’s out: Hollywood edition
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Alfonso Cuaron: Okay, so it wasn’t that hard to imagine someone better-suited to “The Hobbit” after all! Cuaron’s work with “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” should convince you of that. His most recent endeavor, “Children of Men,” was also very smart. Cuaron is “in” and so is fellow Mexican director and good friend .
Movies more wintery than your last trek to IHUM
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How Christmas saved the cinema
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“Die Hard” is arguably the ultimate action movie and “Love Actually” arguably the ultimate romantic comedy (at least that’s what the movie’s tag-line claims).
Showgirls: NC-17, and not much else
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‘Infamous’ will never be as famous as ‘Capote’
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Otherwise, the rest of the cast match their “Capote” counterparts.
Some nightmares are worth repeating
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A brand new edition of the original “A Nightmare on Elm Street” was released on DVD from Infinifilm this week. If you can’t find anything to watch this weekend, consider revisiting Wes Craven’s 80s horror classic.
The blockbuster: Will things ever change?
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"Invincible": Rocky with football pads
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Just plane crazy?
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'The Night Listener" is all ears
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Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' spins its way into 'The Night Listener'
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"A Scanner Darkly" predicts future
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The Media&Microtext center kills boredom
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Another summer, another remake
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In the summer of 1994, a local Australian cinema that specialized in playing cult and classic movies was screening “Friday the 13th Part III” in 3-D. The 3-D gimmick and the timing (on a Friday the 13th) were irresistible, so my friends and I fronted up a few minutes before the start time, expecting very little interest in the film.
'Typhoon' only blows a little
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There’s a terrific scene in the comedy “Bowfinger” in which Steve Martin’s character claims that all movies cost $2,184 to make and that multi-million dollar budgets are the result of “gross net deduction profit percentage deferment ten percent of the nut.
Survivor: Art School
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For a film that begins like an off-kilter retread of “American Pie,” “Art School Confidential” is a very dark comedy. Those of you who felt that “American Dreamz” wasn’t tough enough on its subjects will
be right at home here.
This "Bee's" got sting
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Ever wondered what “Rocky” or “The Karate Kid” would be like if you replaced boxing or karate with competitive spelling?
You're "Lucky" if you don't have to see this
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Midway through “Lucky Number Slevin,” Lucy Liu’s character remarks “we’re dealing with a case of bona fide mistaken identity.
Watch "Die Hard," it's better
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In an early sequence from “Die Hard: With a Vengeance,” Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackon’s characters are given half an hour to get from a subway station on the Upper West Side to a subway station near Wall Street.
"Hoosiers" snaps a towel at other high school basketball movies' bare bums
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In the closing scene of “Hoosiers,” we see a young boy playing basketball in a high school gymnasium. The camera slowly pans across the gymnasium before focusing on a framed picture beside the backboard.
Visit the future of "Gataca"
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By RYAN LAMPE
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In 1997, director Andrew Niccol used the debate surrounding the future of genetic engineering as inspiration for his first movie.
The State of Horror Movies: We need new trends
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Eli Roth and Quentin Tarantino were watching horror movies at the”Pulp Fiction” director’s house when Roth pitched his idea for a movie about the gruesome fate of two American backpackers in Eastern Europe.
"Broken Flowers" blooms
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I won’t lie. For me, 2005 was about one movie: “Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.” “Star Wars” was the reason I fell in love with cinema as a child.
‘Superman’ is a superclassic
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“Superman” is arguably the greatest super-hero movie to date. If you don’t find this year’s holiday movies appealing, consider revisiting the movie that made audiences believe “a man can fly.
'Leaving Las Vegas' reminds us performance counts
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“Leaving Las Vegas” is arguably the greatest movie to be set in Sin City. If you don’t find “Pride and Prejudice” appealing, consider revisiting the performance that earned Nicolas Cage a Best Actor Oscar.
'Casablanca' freakin' rocks
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“Casablanca” is playing at Stanford Flicks this Sunday night. If you don’t find “North Country” appealing, consider revisiting one of Hollywood’s most-loved movies.
JAWS
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Late in 1974, two movie producers were frantically contemplating their futures. Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown were working on a new film with a bright young director named Steven Spielberg, and things were not going well.