<P>On a bad day, you could probably pick apart Peter Segal's flirty romantic comedy "50 First Dates" pretty easily: The movie's pacing is lax and stringy at times, you can see some of the jokes coming at you from a mile away, and in certain sce…
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<P>Must Love Dogs is a product - a pre-packaged, easily-digestible motion picture designed with one particular audience in mind. You know the kind of film. You have seen it before, usually with names like Nancy Myers or Nora & Delia Ephron …
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<P>Whatever happened to the delight and, if you'll excuse the term, the magic in the "Harry Potter" series? As the characters grow up, the stories grow, too, leaving the innocence behind and confusing us with plots so labyrinthine that it takes…
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<P>The Japanese phrase "mono no aware," is a bittersweet reference to the transience of life. It came to mind as I was watching "Lost in Translation," which is sweet and sad at the same time it is sardonic and funny. Bill Murray and Scarlett Jo…
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<P>"trainspotting" is that rarity: a movie that arrives bearing the imprimatur of hip and turns out to live up to all of the advance hype. The most original, daring, thrilling movie to be released this year, "Trainspotting" is one of those occa…
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<P>Any Hollywood movie that begins with the phrase 'based on a true story' is knowingly practicing false advertising. While the key word is always 'based,' the filmmakers know it's the word 'true' that will send the hearts of its audience aflut…
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<P>Fatherhood has a way of changing people, even caustic comedians like Martin Lawrence. According to one televised interview, this once foul-mouthed, stand-up entertainer wanted to tame down to a G-rated performance so his kids could see Dad o…
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<P>The Oscar winning 1934 comedy directed by Frank Capra is showing at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica Wednesday, June 14 at 7:30pm!</P>
<P>If you haven'st had the pleasure of previously seeing this exceptional example of the “screwball” c…
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<P>The life story of Pu Yi, who ascended the throne of China at the age of three, and was eventually deposed, is told in flashback during his detention and "reeducation" at a prison camp in the 1950s. </P>
<P>In this story Bertolucci found bo…
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<P>Hollywood has a lousy rep for remakes of foreign movies. The list is exhaustive and too boring to go into here. Let's just say, William Monahan's reworking of Siu Fai Mak and Felix Chong's script of Infernal Affairs (2002) is blistering. Tha…
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