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"Get Smart," the movie, was a notable switch from the TV show in that Steve Carell did not portray Maxwell Smart as a complete boob; but, rather, as the bumbling hero in the end.
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Elegy If you thought, by watching "Elegy," it would be easy negotiating its emotional streams flowing deeper and deeper into your psyche: it ain't. Director Isabel Coixet was most successful drawing one inexorably, "kicking and Screaming," deeper into the lives of the two primary characters, who hav
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Charlie Bartlett On occasion, and with great irregularity, I have had the pleasure to experience a film made about post adolescent high school students; made primarily for an audience of those same post adolescents, that connects with the general audience - me: a middle aged, feisty older gentleman
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Small Budget Film Offers a Unique Approach to Some Big Laughs The low budget film "The Foot Fist Way" exposes a "slice of life" examination, that is bizarre and often comedic, of life in a small southern city, where everyone there lives an existence of being either two kinds of people: he who is Fre
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The Mayor's and Horton's relentless pursuit to save the unsuspecting people of Whoville, against significant odds, is the backbone of this story. It is a story with a moral that is well presented - a moral that children should enjoy and revisit.
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Andrew Wyeth May Have Passed But His Art Will Live On When I was much younger, back in the early 1970's, and trying to find my way in this world of good and bad art, music and movies, I searched for living artists of quality to guide me as I sought my own path, and I discovered Andrew Wyeth. Andrew
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Quantum of Solace This is the Best Bond film in a long time and a notch ahead of the last Bond film, Casino Royale, Daniel Craig's first film as James Bond. The action is unrelenting and Daniel Craig is the first truly believable Bond since Sean Connery originated the character in "Dr. No." Daniel C
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army First, what did I like about Hellboy II? The movie, written and directed by Guerillermo del Toro who also wrote and directed the stylishly beautiful "Pan's Labyrinth," was artfully shot with outstanding, necessary and not gratuitous computer graphics, crisp in its deliver
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"The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" gives us a slow, drawn look at his last days as a paranoid sociopath and the aftermath that rewarded his place in history as a folk hero.
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All Things Malkovich And the film works. I know it sounds crazy, but that is essentially why this film is so alluring. An entire film built around seeing the world through the eyes of one of America's great current character actors - John Malkovich - and it works due to the outstanding story / scree
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Role Models Paul Rudd co-wrote the screenplay with Director David Wain and some of it is funny. The best parts of this often humorous vignette regarding these two losers; Rudd as Danny Donahue and Sean William Scott as simply Wheeler, is when they meet with "Big Brother" like Director Gayle Sweeney,
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Journey to the Center of the Earth Was a journey into a chronic state of disbelief then the boredom set in. Fortunately it was over in 93 minutes. The original book by Jules Verne and the first movie of the same title, produced in 1959, were much better. Irrespective of the fact that this was not
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In the Electirc Mist Sharp dialogue and Tommy Lee Jones's trademark intensity make this tale of redemption amid an atmosphere of Cajun characters and dead confederate souls negotiating the bayou a rewarding experience of 102 minutes of time well spent. Tommy Lee Jones, as detective Dave Robicheaux,
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