Kung Fu Panda 2 box office: DreamWorks’ costlier sequel to their 2008 hit opened far behind the original in the domestic market. In the voice cast: Jack Black and Angelina …
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Straw Dogs Review: Infamous Rape Scene
15 minutes readStraw Dogs with Dustin Hoffman and Susan George: Infamous rape scene. Straw Dogs movie (1971) review: Sam Peckinpah drama is best remembered for its infamous rape scene. If there has …
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Little Fockers box office: Paul Weitz’s critically massacred all-star family comedy is a hit with domestic audiences. Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro and Owen Wilson star.
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Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? review: Oscar nominee Barbara Harris steals Dustin Hoffman film.
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Lake Tahoe directed by Fernando Eimbcke. Fernando Eimbcke’s minimalist comedy Lake Tahoe presents a series of vignettes showing a small-town teenager (Diego Cataño) trying to cope with the death of …
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Midnight Cowboy with Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. John Schlesinger’s 1969 socio-psychological drama Midnight Cowboy, one of the better best picture Oscar winners, will be screened as part of the …
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Blade Runner (Movie 1982): Overrated Sci-Fi Thriller
14 minutes readBlade Runner (movie 1982) review: Starring Harrison Ford, Ridley Scott’s dystopian sci-fi thriller is considered a modern classic. But does it merit that label? Rutger Hauer costars.
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Jane Fonda: Warren Beatty gay by association? Warren Beatty: AFI Life Achievement Award with Dyan Cannon & Diane Keaton + Jane Fonda Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Dyan Cannon, and Elaine …
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You Don’t Mess with the Zohan Box Office: Adam Sandler (Not Gay) Hero Outperforms Predecessor
6 minutes readYou Don’t Mess with the Zohan box office: Adam Sandler (not gay) comedy outperforms predecessor but fails to recover its cost.
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Sydney Pollack and Patrick Dempsey in the box office disappointment Made of Honor. Sydney Pollack, the director of several critical and box office successes of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, …
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Frank Sinatra in ‘The Man with the Golden Arm’: Groundbreaking drug addiction drama. Although hardly one of Otto Preminger’s better films, The Man with the Golden Arm is worth a …
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The Lost City (Movie 2005): Self-Pitying Andy Garcia Drama
7 minutes readThe Lost City: Andy Garcia makes it clear you should start the revolution without him Andy Garcia’s The Lost City is clearly a labor of love. Garcia fought for nearly …
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Anne Bancroft: Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate
3 minutes readAnne Bancroft, Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate dead at 73 Anne Bancroft, Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate and the longtime wife of Mel Brooks, died of uterine cancer on July …
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J.M. Barrie + Peter Pan Origins: Finding Neverland vs. Reality
12 minutes readJ.M. Barrie and Peter Pan origins: Marc Forster’s Finding Neverland chooses crowd-pleasing myths instead of reality’s complex, unsettling facts.
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Meet the Fockers (2004): Cast Prestige Flushed Down Toilet
5 minutes readMeet the Fockers (2004) review: A quartet of award-winning actors waste their talent and prestige in the latest revolting Ben Stiller comedy.
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Marathon Man (1976): Masterful Laurence Olivier
9 minutes readMarathon Man (1976) review: Proudly evil Nazi Laurence Olivier Is easily the best thing about John Schlesinger’s outlandish political thriller.
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I Heart Huckabees (2004): Unwatchable Satire
8 minutes readI Heart Huckabees (2004) review: David O. Russell’s all-star satire is all but unwatchable, as its compelling moments took place behind the scenes.
Top Classic Movies: ‘Last Remaining Seats’ Revisits Hitchcock & Nichols + Foreign-Language Golden Globe Screenings
Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate: Top classic movies at “Last Remaining Seats” series in Los Angeles. The L.A. Conservancy has announced a list of tentative titles for the 2010 edition …
Palm Springs Film Festival: Amy Adams and Clint Eastwood honored + Carl Theodor Dreyer rarity and world cinema screenings including Ciao Bella.
Reds + Tootsie: Communists & Tranvestites in Love
Reds with Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, and Warren Beatty. Warren Beatty’s Reds, the best of the five 1981 Academy Award nominees for best picture, will be screened as the next …
What’s the Highest Grossing Comedy Ever?
What’s the highest grossing comedy ever? That depends on how you come up with the box office figures, how you interpret them + how you define ‘comedy.’
Lenny (1974): Sensational Valerie Perrine But Haphazard Biopic
Lenny (1974) review: An excellent Valerie Perrine overshadows an inadequate Dustin Hoffman in Bob Fosse’s underwhelming biopic.