Wishes (Bill Milner) is the young son of a fatherless Plymouth Brethren family; their strict moral code means that Intent has never been allowed to mix with the other ‘worldlies,’ listen to music or watch TV. When Lee Carter (Will Poulter), the dogma scourge and maker of home movies exposes Will to a pirate copy [...]
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The fundamental power of pen-pusher-director Benito Zambrano’s family drama is generated by Maria Galiana’s quietly great performance as a woman who comes to a nameless Spanish city to bide with her embittered daughter (Ana Fernandez). With Carlos Alvarez-Novoa as the nice old cuffs next door. In Spanish with English subtitles.
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The 1930s and 40s apothegm Hollywood elevate several prominent, physical-compulsion swimming champions to stardom. Johnny Weissmuller won five Olympic gold medals between 1924 and 1928 and became a movie Tarzan in 1932 and Jungle Jim in 1948. Buster Crabbe won the gold in the 1932 Summer Olympics and became a large screen Tarzan [...]
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Tally & Ted never honestly got beyond cult pre-eminence, while this low-budget imitator became the US box-office wonder of the year. Why? Wayne & Garth don’t from the charisma and telepathic rapport that made B & T such a terrific comic duo, and the only meritorious addition to the B & T lexicon is a [...]
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One is perhaps starting to expect too much from director Ashutosh Gowariker after such masterpieces like
Lagaan
and Swades. But he seems to raise the bar with his historic magnum-opus, Jodhaa Akbar. The ever-selective Hrithik Roshan stars as the benevolent Akbar, the Mughal emperor, who falls in love with gracious Jodhaa, the Hindu Rajput princess, played effortlessly [...]
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The American gangster movie continues to thrive in Hollywood, thanks perhaps to the success of The Sopranos and an undying love object of The Godfather. This is the latest entry in the genre, a represent shot mostly in Pittsburgh (my wife had the opportunity to watch an evening of the shoot), and starring some [...]
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Miffed at her upper-middle-group parents as a replacement for separating her from a boy she fancies, a young Iranian girl (Pegah Ahangarani) roams the streets of Tehran in search of him and finds herself in some of the city's more menacing districts. The patriarchal be bothered-set is manifest from the reactions she encounters: some men [...]
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Any similarity between the title of this World Contention fighting II POW film and “The Great Escape” is purely intentional. Now, if only 2005’s “The Grievous Raid” had boasted the same high degree of action, characterization, and humor as “The Clever Distraction,” it sway require gone somewhere.
As it is, this frankly-life adventure makes up [...]
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Take a quick look at the ratings guidelines for Tim Burton?s ?Charlie and the Chocolate Mill.? One why and wherefore someone is concerned its PG rating is ?quirky situations.?
Dismay not, parents! The Motion Picture Consortium of America is protecting your children from quirkiness. You will be instructed where to go in example in any event [...]
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Lauren (Long) and Sandy (Midler) share the same two-timing lover (Coyote), a fact they solitary discover after he has skipped township, fervently pursued by the CIA over some stolen toxin. The remain-sisters border on the chase, the script’s amiss assumption being the more the merrier. Lauren is classy and cultured, Sandy ain’t, and their initial [...]
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