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June 08, 2006 12:16 PM EDT
(featured date: June 13, 2006)
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Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman
In his great Nashville, Robert Altman mocked the country settings for their theme-park churchiness, but he knew that the musicians — like Ronee Blakley, with her tender . . .
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June 01, 2006 12:14 PM EDT
(featured date: June 01, 2006)
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A special thanks to Fred Goodwin for volunteering to take over The Film Appreciation Society of Gather. I'll leave it up to him to decide on the new direction of the group. Suggestions here are welcome. . . .
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May 27, 2006 04:24 PM EDT
(featured date: May 30, 2006)
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How Star Wars Surprised the World
http://www.americanheritage.com/entertainment/articles/web/20060525-star-wars-george-lucas-movies-hollywood-luke-skywalker-darth-vader-american-graffiti-science-fiction-special-effects.shtml . . .
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May 22, 2006 05:22 PM EDT
(featured date: May 23, 2006)
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The film version of Garrison Keillor's popular public radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" opens in theaters on June 9, 2006. A comic backstage fable about a fictitious radio variety . . .
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May 16, 2006 08:39 PM EDT
(featured date: May 17, 2006)
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Well the big blockbusters are opening every week now and you are going to have to make an effort to keep up. Quite a variety to cover this month - starting with
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3: The overwhelmingly . . .
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May 12, 2006 07:05 AM EDT
(featured date: May 12, 2006)
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When the Dan Brown's bestselling The Da Vinci Code first came out in 2003 a few Christian groups began protesting the book. Some Churches asked their members not to read it. Discussions of movie boycotts . . .
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May 10, 2006 04:31 PM EDT
(featured date: May 11, 2006)
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Another in a long line of Hollywood sequels, Mission Impossible III strives to enter the spy thriller action category as top gun this summer movie season. Tom Cruise, arguably the most recognized movie . . .
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May 08, 2006 03:56 PM EDT
(featured date: May 09, 2006)
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The following films were panned by the majority of reviewers, according to the latest figures at Rottentomatoes.com. The number following the film title represents the percentage of US reviewers who could . . .
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May 05, 2006 10:39 AM EDT
(featured date: May 09, 2006)
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Star Wars fans can go back to the future with DVDs of the unaltered versions of the original trilogy scheduled to hit stores this fall.
Die-hard Star Wars fans soon can see the original theatrical versions . . .
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May 03, 2006 09:31 AM EDT
(featured date: May 03, 2006)
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For those of you who have not seen it yet:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/supermanreturns/trailer2/large.html
*squee*
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April 28, 2006 05:38 AM EDT
(featured date: April 28, 2006)
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Arriving in theaters five years after September 11, United 93 is a desperately poignant film that focuses on the only flight that day not to reach its intended target. United 93 recreates the events . . .
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April 25, 2006 09:16 PM EDT
(featured date: April 26, 2006)
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There is reason to think ?America Dreamz? is going to be a good movie. Paul Weiz, who wrote and directed it, has arguably written and directed some the best mainstream comedies of the past ten years; among . . .
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April 25, 2006 02:01 PM EDT
(featured date: April 25, 2006)
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This article of mine (with more photos) will appear on the informative movie website FILMS42.COM starting about May 5.
TRIBUTE TO SHELLEY WINTERS
Special Thoughts for
FILMS FOR TWO
by Alan Waldman . . .
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April 25, 2006 10:05 AM EDT
(featured date: April 25, 2006)
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I have this theory that all movies based on video games are crap no matter how good the game might have been.
Tomb Raider, Mortal Kombat, Double Dragon, Street Fighter, Super Mario Bros., Doom and of . . .
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April 25, 2006 01:38 PM EDT
(featured date: April 25, 2006)
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Over-the-top metal rocker Ronnie James Dio will be appearing as himself in the Liam Lynch-directed Tenacious D movie The Pick of Destiny. The "Holy Diver" singer with his unmistakable voice will . . .
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April 21, 2006 10:43 PM EDT
(featured date: April 22, 2006)
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The next Star Trek movie is to be done by JJ Abrams. I like every show Mr. Abrams has ever done. And now? A Trek movie?
*whooohoo*
Any thoughts on this? Have any of you heard any more info?
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April 19, 2006 06:57 PM EDT
(featured date: April 22, 2006)
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In my ongoing project to record comments on every single movie I see in the theater, I'm adding #2 and #3. Among all the friends that my lovely wife Karen and I share, I'm pretty sure we are the . . .
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April 16, 2006 11:03 AM EDT
(featured date: April 18, 2006)
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Ken Nolan's first produced screenplay, Black Hawk Down was an AFI nominee for 2001 film of the year and made the Top 10 lists of 28 critics, including Roger Ebert and writers for Time, Newsweek, Washington . . .
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April 17, 2006 11:36 AM EDT
(featured date: April 18, 2006)
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I have interviewed hundreds of writers, but the one below with Paul Mayersberg is my favorite. It is best enjoyed and understood after you have just watched the DVD of Croupier. Here, Mayersberg frankly . . .
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April 13, 2006 05:13 AM EDT
(featured date: April 14, 2006)
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The London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival has been going on for the past couple weeks and the movie "Boy Culture", directed by Q. Allan Brocka, has been so popular that additional screenings . . .
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