John Malkovich’s directorial debut, The Dancer Upstairs, is a political melodrama set in an unnamed Latin American country during “the recent past.” Based on Nicholas Shakespeare’s novel of the same name (which fictionalized the pursuit and capture of Abimael Guzman, leader of Peru’s The Shining Path), the movie combines an investigation into the identity and […]
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Steve Carell of “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” has a personality, or maybe it is a lack of personality, that is growing on me. He is content to exist on the screen without sending wild semaphores of his intentions, his uniqueness and how funny he is. He’s an everyman like a very (very) low-key Jack Lemmon. That […]
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It was Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist that proved moviegoers were itching to have the wits scared out of them by Old Scratch hisself — the original bogeyman who has pervaded our collective fear for all of time. And Hollywood didn’t have to look any further than The Bible itself for truly horrific inspiration, as […]
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‘Daddy’ is probably the cleanest movie you’ll ever see - its G-rated antics make the stuff in last year’s “Scooby-Doo” seem pornographic in comparison. Its so clean that in one moment in the movie when Eddie Murphy makes a superannuation entendre to his wife as this is the first time they’ve been alone together in […]
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