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Mel Brooks parodied Alfred Hitchcock movies in High Anxiety with middling results, though perhaps the movie simply hasn’t aged well over time. It remains modestly funny all these decades later, with the added value of now being a time capsule from the late 70s, back when Hyatt Regency atriums w…
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Robin Williams plays a nerdy researcher who gets a staff job at a special needs hospital, where he is presented with practically comatose victims of an epidemic that occurred decades ago. Only now, a cure exists and Dr Sayer won’t let sleeping dogs lie. The story that ensues is both heart-warm… |
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Restoration refers to Britain’s casting off of Puritanism, a liberated time of royal hedonism and bawdy theater, from which a much lauded historical novel was derived. Add in Robert Downey Jr., Meg Ryan, Sam Neill and the stunning Polly Walker for cinematic firepower. Restoration is the resul…
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Polly Walker's stunning Royal Mistress
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Good Will Hunting remains worth screening every few years, especially with youngsters new to it. Indeed, Matt Damon & Ben Affleck’s breakthrough stands the test of time, left-wing affectations notwithstanding. Superficially about townies who turn the tables on elite geeks, Damon & Affleck’s …
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Few love stories are so exquisitely tortured as the one in Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. Jim Carrey’s sad sack wants to forget his quirky lover, played winningly by Kate Winslet. Turns out there is a quack who offers a mind-wash. Perfect! Except it’s not. However it does set u…
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Have we met?
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This movie, which was nominated for the 2005 critic’s choice awards for best picture, best supporing actor (Peter Sarsgaard), best supporting actress (Laura Linney) is about the notorious Alfred Kinsey (Liam Neeson) and his studies of human sexuality back in the 50’s — during a time when America… |
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Mannered, overtly creepy and a bit wearying, Scorsese’s trip inside one man’s tortured mind is never less than showy-great movie making. You expected something less from the Master? Instead he gives us something more: a big twist worthy of Fight Club…
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Mega talents Kingsley, Ruffalo & DiCa...
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This movie is sick, literally. That’s not a bad thing as star-studded disaster movies go, though this one is more paranoiac than most. Fantasizing about the Mother of All Communicable Diseases does make it more than a little fascinating. Is that sick to say? The star-studded cast proves its …
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Gwyneth: flirtatious and outgoing, fo...
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Fantástico, this latest creation by the brilliant Pedro Almodóvar; deliciously twisted too, in a gender bending, role reversing way. Revenge and desire drive the convoluted yet well-told story. A never more dashing Antonio Bandaras plays a super-surgeon who maintains a personal clinic in his …
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Obsession on a flat screen.
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Precious few movies about life in communist countries have made an impact in America. Barbara should be one of them. It’s a compelling drama – and a sexy one – about a glamorous doctor torn between two men and the different lives they represent. It’s also an insightful lens into the grim reali…
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Every Move Watched
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