3D B sci-fi thriller The Bubble may be an enjoyable experience as long as you don’t obsess over pesky details like the quality of the acting and dialogue.
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The Ghost Writer with Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor. In Roman Polanski’s mystery thriller The Ghost Writer, which will be competing for the 2010 Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear, former…
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Alfred Hitchcock British films: The Lady Vanishes with Dame May Whitty, Margaret Lockwood, and Michael Redgrave. On Nov. 27–28, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (website) will present the…
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Broken Embraces: Pedro Almodóvar on the set (top); Penélope Cruz as the heroine (bottom). In the mystery-melodrama, a director and his female star begin a passionate love affair that leads…
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The Abyss film with Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. The Abyss, the costly, special-effect-laden, deep-sea adventure drama about underwater aliens and a bickering married couple, will be screened at a special 20th…
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Synopsis: West Texas, 1980: A hunter (Josh Brolin) stumbles upon numerous dead bodies, a stash of heroin, and $2 million in cash lying about in the region’s arid wasteland near…
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Hypnosis and crime: Michael Redgrave and Joan Bennett in Secret Beyond the Door. April 4 update: Tonight at 7:30 p.m. at UCLA’s Festival of Preservation you’ll be able to catch…
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Marni Nixon: Making Deborah Kerr, Natalie Wood, and Audrey Hepburn sound more melodious. Marni Nixon, the voice behind, among others, Deborah Kerr in The King and I and An Affair…
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Detour with femme fatale Ann Savage and Tom Neal. Ann Savage’s film career was all but over by the early 1950s, and so was that of her Detour leading man…
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Before the Fall movie. F. Javier Gutiérrez’s 3 Días / Before the Fall, the filmmaker’s feature-film debut (co-produced by Antonio Banderas), has an unlikely premise: as a giant meteorite is…
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In the unsettling thriller Targets, Peter Bogdanovich points out that life and art are irrevocably intertwined. A superb Boris Karloff stars.
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Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon. Gus Van Sant’s 1997 Best Picture nominee Good Will Hunting will be the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’…
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Man of a Thousand Faces Lon Chaney delivers another phenomenally creepy portrayal in Wallace Worsley’s top-notch revenge thriller The Penalty.
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Hollywood Horror House / Savage Intruder proves that Miriam Hopkins’ star charisma remained undiminished after more than four decades in the business.
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Veteran Olivia de Havilland delivers a tour de force in the horror cult classic Lady in a Cage, which offers a side of scathing social commentary. James Caan costars.
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Made with schlocker fanatics in mind, the 1966 psychobabbling thriller Picture Mommy Dead is notable for its cast (Don Ameche, Zsa Zsa Gabor, etc.).
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The Cervantes Center of Arts & Letters will celebrate the birth centennial of Mexican actor-singer superstar Tito Guízar (1908–1999) with a screening of the 1936 cowboy musical (“charro”) Alla en…
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Lifeboat cast (top) and Shadow of a Doubt cast (bottom): Alfred Hitchcock mid-1940s classics. Even though I’ve never been a major Alfred Hitchcock fan, I do find the vast majority of…
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Matte painting tecniques displayed in Forbidden Planet. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release, Fred M. Wilcox’s 1956 science-fiction classic Forbidden Planet was seemingly inspired by William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Cyril Hume was credited…
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Bugsy movie with Annette Bening and Warren Beatty. Barry Levinson’s 1991 best picture nominee Bugsy is the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Great To…
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The Godfather: Part III with Diane Keaton, George Hamilton, and Al Pacino. Francis Ford Coppola’s 1990 best picture nominee The Godfather, Part III will be the next feature presentation in the…
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Film noir New York: Sweet Smell of Success with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis. Whenever I think of film noir, I – somewhat incongruously – immediately picture murder and mayhem…
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Comedian Jim Carrey is badly cast against type in Joel Schumacher ‘s absurd metaphysical thriller The Number 23. Virginia Madsen costars.
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Ryan Phillippe and Chris Cooper deliver first-rate performances in Billy Ray’s mature spy thriller Breach, based on the FBI’s infamous Robert Hanssen case.
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The Departed with Leonardo DiCaprio. Best Picture Academy Award winner The Departed boasts a respectable pedigree: the cop thriller was directed by Martin Scorsese; edited by Thelma Schoonmaker; shot by…
Sidney Poitier, Richard Widmark in No Way Out Ruby Dee will be the special guest at a screening of No Way Out (1950), part of the Academy of Motion Picture…
Writer, director, actor, and producer Carl Reiner, among whose feature-film credits are the George Burns hit Oh God! (1977) and several Steve Martin vehicles, is the subject of a mini-retrospective…
Jay and Mark Duplass’ clever indie comedy-thriller Baghead isn’t your average ‘cabin in the woods’ movie. Cast: Greta Gerwig and Ross Partridge.
Gimmick master William Castle’s Psycho-ish 1964 horror cult classic Strait-Jacket works as a larger-than-life Joan Crawford showcase.
Joan Crawford shows in Berserk that she could still command the action, seduce hunks half her age and look fabulous while parading around in fishnet leggings.
British cinema is back in full force at this year’s Venice Film Festival According to press reports, among the favorites to win the several Venice 2007 Lions tomorrow are: Best…
The confusing and utterly forgettable thriller Slow Burn is a poor copy of Bryan Singer’s classic The Usual Suspects. Ray Liotta stars.