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Terabithia: Don’t believe the commercials. It’s not just a fantasy
Bridge to Terabithia opens Friday. A touching tale for tweens, it’s good, and it’s not just me who says so. Here’s a piece I did with the author of the book, the director, and star AnnaSophia Robb...
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Miss Potter “Sneaks” this weekend, opens Mar. 9
The oft-delayed, much-beloved Miss Potter, starring Renee Zellweger as a twittery, adorable and somewhat pixillated Beatrix Potter, creator of the Peter Rabbit books, lover of The Lake District, opens...
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Miss Potter Moves…AGAIN
The studio (MGM-Weinstein, emphasis on WEINSTEIN) keeps promising to release this freaking movie. And they keep changing their mind. Meanwhile, I get calls and calls and emails every day about it....
View ArticleLasse Hallstrom has yet ANOTHER chance in Hollywood
Check out these credits. Even the flops are interesting. He’s married to Lena Olin still, right? Lasse Hallstrom once made My Life as a Dog and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? Lasse Hallstrom now is set...
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Zodiac, a little background.
It opens tomorrow, it’s very good, dense, meandering, long, a REAL police procedural, without David Caruso snapping off his sunglasses and making with the pithy CSI-sci-cracks. But you need to know...
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Miss Potter is BACK ON for Mar. 9
I am going to have to create a whole new "category" for this blog. "Updates on Miss Potter." That’s a scene from it, Renee Z as Beatrix Potter drawing her cute little bunny. The on-again, off-again,...
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300: The Allegory–Is America Ancient Greece, or Ancient Persia?
That’s the big allegory hanging over the movie, the one that had Berlin Film Festival goers all upset. They were seeing 300 as a movie that explains/excuses America’s adventures abroad in mythic...
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Most ineptly marketed movie EVER
Miss Potter is opening here Friday. Oh yes. If by "here," the geniuses at The Weinstein Company mean "The Villages," that little developer’s fiefdom way to Heck and Gone from Orlando, closer to Ocala....
View ArticleKites–a bit of Bollywood, opening wide May 21…or 28
Brett Ratner “remixed” the Indian film Kites, sort of a cross-cultural romantic thriller (Indian guy, Mexican girl, betrayal, a love affair that crosses the wrong family, etc.) . IMDb says it’s opening...
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Megan Fox quits Transformers
This seems like a smart move, but whose smart move, it’s hard to say. She’d badmouthed Michael Bay in the past, so it’s probable that Megan Fox didn’t want to do another Transformers movie. And it’s...
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