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Christopher Walken, Alan Arkin and Al Pacino are oldies but goodies. They’re veteran actors who aren’t beyond taking roles in small, independent films that have little change of turning into box office hits. And they do a decen...
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Walter Hill knows how to make a decent buddy cop flick. He directed 48 Hours, the very funny movie that starred Nick Nolte as a ragtag cop and Eddie Murphy as a troublesome fugitive. Hill goes for something similar with Bullet ...
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It’s any wonder Warm Bodies, yet another zombie apocalypse flick, has a chance. From Zombieland to Shaun of the Dead, there’s been a glut of zombie stories in recent years. And yet, director Jonathan Levine’s coming-of-age post...
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“Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man.” – Francis Xavier That Jesuit motto is the foundation for Michael Apted’s Up series, the much-lauded English documentary that follows – beginning...
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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, the new action-adventure/horror film from Norwegian director Tommy Wirkola, has the look and feel of a Marilyn Manson video from the late ’90s. Not nearly as much fun as Wirkola’s breakthroug...
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Action hero Jason Statham is the perfect guy to play Parker, a criminal who abides by certain standards (he always keeps his word and doesn’t steal from the poor). But Parker, which is based on the 2000 Donald Westlake novel Fl...
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A documentary about all the great albums (Fleetwood Mac’s Rumors, Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Damn the Torpedoes, Nirvana’s Nevermind) recorded at Sound City studios just outside of Los An...
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“Can someone tell me what the fuck is going on?” Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) says on more than one occasion in the new crime drama Broken City. Audiences will find themselves asking the very same question. The film bein...
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Well, he said he’d “be back.” And Arnold Schwarzenegger is back, alright, delivering those simple-minded one-liners with an accent as thick as always in The Last Stand, a new action film that picks up where all his crappy actio...
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For the first 90 minutes, Rust and Bone is stereotypical art house fare. The French-Belgian film centers on Stephanie (Marion Cotillard), a whale trainer who has both legs cut off in a terrible accident. We see her hit rock bot...