<P>Most romantic comedies follow conventional formulas that, when they work, can result in a frothy, enjoyable end product - admittedly, not something to challenge the intellect but enough to cause the heart to skip a beat or two. When those fo…
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<P>The Talented Mr. Ripley is a new film version of Patricia Highsmith's novel about the exploits of an extremely intelligent, amoral sociopath. The book has previously been adapted to the motion picture format in 1960's Purple Noon, a chilling…
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<P>The year it premiered, A Christmas Story didn't play in theaters over Christmas. It opened around Thanksgiving and was pulled shortly before the big holiday because it lost money. Since then, the film has paid big dividends as one of the sea…
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<P>The voice of the oil man sounds made of oil, gristle and syrup. It is deep and reassuring, absolutely sure of itself, and curiously fraudulent. No man who sounds this forthright can be other than a liar. His name is Daniel Plainview, and he …
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<P>Pretty Persuasion, scripter Skander Halim's tale of a scheming teenage girl, Kimberly Joyce (Evan Rachel Wood), is written with both poison pen and an outrageously accurate ear. Be forewarned that Kimberly takes no prisoners, and that innoce…
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Don’t be fooled by the marketing of this one: Heroes hottie Hayden Panettiere -- who shot this before she rocketed to fame on the cult hit TV show -- is all over the DVD cover, posed like she’s bouncing through a standard inane romantic comed…
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<P>The 1940's and early 50's had many Christmas movies such as Miracle on 34th Street, White Christmas, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Lemon Drop Kid, Scrooge and It's A Wonderful Life. The reality of a World War seemed to inspire people to wa…
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<P>In the past, it has been difficult to get the public interested in political films. This is especially true of younger viewers who are not old enough to participate in the voting process. 2008 may be different, however, with the "rock star" …
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<P>We don't see many new Christmas specials on network TV these days. Though seasonal programming is certainly one way of confirming that the holidays are upon us, the days of Rankin and Bass regularly crafting stop-motion musical tales are lon…
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<P>Experiencing director David Fincher's explosive new film Fight Club is akin to punching a wall of glass with your fist — though the fragments prick and tear at your skin, the pain is mixed with the delirious, reviving feeling of being truly…
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<P>I wasn't too enthusiastic about this change of pace from writer Richard Matheson after a diet of his sharp sci-fi and horror tales, but later viewings have softened my views. Terribly romantic story of two star-crossed lovers goes one up on …
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