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AMERICAN PIE

Remember when it was seen as novelty to have brothers make movies together, back when the Joel & Ethan Coen made “Blood Simple”? Now, with Andy & Larry Wachowski, Peter & Bobby Farrelly and now…

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LA BABEL BÊTE

BABEL  This is the latest of Iñárritu’s series of films in which unrelated characters are linked by a road accident, here involving a tourist bus in the Moroccan desert and a stray bullet. I’m starting…

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LITTLE CHILDREN

Okay, that’s it: I’m calling a moratorium right here, right now on people saying Kate Winslet is anything but damn hot. That, and just about the best actress in film today, but you already knew that, right?…

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THE DIRECTORS SERIES (7)

1987 Bad Taste 51 [ Cheap-ass sci-fi comedy about “extra-terrestrial psychopaths” with a (bad) taste for human flesh fast-food who target a small New Zealand village for invasion. The acting is wretched and the production…

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DARKMAN

Sam Raimi is one of my favorite filmmakers, and if you ask me, “Darkman” is his masterpiece. It ain’t as funny and over the top as his “Evil Dead” trilogy, but it’s clever, intense and surprisingly…

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Gran Torino

Retired and recently widowed, Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) kills time by drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon on his porch, groaning and giving the neighbors mean looks. For you see, he’s one of the only white guys…

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TWELVE MONKEYS

Movie Infos Title: Twelve Monkeys Year: 1996 Director: Terry Gilliam Writer: David Peoples, Janet Peoples Starring: Bruce Willis Brad Pitt Madeleine Stowe Christopher Plummer … Time: 129 min. Genre: Drama / Thriller / Sci-Fi The…

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SCHOOL FOR SCOUNDRELS

If IKEA made movies, they might look something like this: a big bunch of prefabricated parts that not so obviously fit together. Todd Phillips and his his co-writer Scott Armstrong (who also worked together on the hilarious Old School, the…

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