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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This pleasant coming-of-age tale is mostly notable for one of its young stars: Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe. Fans and industry watchers who wonder whether Radcliffe has what it takes to turn his increasingly sophisticated performances in th…
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<P>Why is nobody utterly in awe of ghosts in "Over Her Dead Body" and so many other ghostcoms? Here is a supernatural manifestation from another realm, and everybody treats it as a plot device. The movie even drags in a Catholic priest, who see…
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<P>Centered on a plucky, chirping elementary school teacher in North London, Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky may, at first, look like a great diversion from the Salford-born director's working-class, kitchen-sink-realism directing style. All the da…
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<P>For the second time in two weeks comes a violent movie in which a crime victim turns hunter to extract revenge. Both the Kevin Bacon-starring Death Sentence, the first one out of the gate, and The Brave One seek to exploit middle-class fears…
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<P>There are so many movies coming out of Hollywood these days -- and that's not including the numerous semi-indie pictures that have been at least partially bankrolled by big studios -- that it's only natural for moviegoers to suspect that man…
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<P>While watching Liar Liar, it occurred to me that the chief problem with this film is that it has a script. If Jim Carrey had been unleashed without such silly, incidental constraints as plot and dialogue, who knows where things might have go…
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<P>I generally never expect much from romantic comedies. There’s been a string of so-called rom-coms in the mold of Old School and The Wedding Crashers that maintain the humor and narrative by presenting 90 minutes of a dude and his friends ac…
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<P>Simply put, Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation is an amazing motion picture. There may be some controversy over whether she truly wrote the screenplay on her own (there are sequences that argue that she at least had help from someone with a…
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<P>"Somewhere in Time" wants us to share its sweeping romantic idealism, about a love so great that it spanned the decades and violated the sanctity of time itself. But we keep getting distracted by nagging doubts, like, isn't it a little futil…
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