Kung Fu Panda 2 movie box office: DreamWorks’ costlier sequel to their 2008 hit opened far behind the original in the domestic market. Voice cast: Jack Black and Angelina Jolie.
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Straw 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 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) 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) 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: 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 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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Hilary Swank Oscar triumph #2: The Million Dollar Baby actress is the 21st century’s first double winner in the Academy Awards’ acting categories.
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J.M. Barrie and Peter Pan origins: Marc Forster’s Finding Neverland opts for crowd-pleasing myths instead of a depiction of a darker, more complex reality.
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Finding Neverland (movie 2004) review: Johnny Depp is a lifeless, Disneyfied version of Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie in Marc Forster’s feel-good family tragedy.
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Marathon Man (movie 1976) review: As a proudly evil Nazi, Laurence Olivier Is by far the best thing about John Schlesinger’s confusing and absurd political thriller. Dustin Hoffman stars.
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Lenny (movie 1974) review: Valerie Perrine overshadows a miscast and painfully unfunny Dustin Hoffman in Bob Fosse’s unsatisfying biopic of polemical comedian Lenny Bruce.
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I Heart Huckabees (movie 2004) review: The all-star ‘existential’ David O. Russell satire is all but unwatchable; its notable moments actually took place behind the scenes.
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 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? That depends on how you come up with the box office figures, how you interpret them + how you define ‘comedy.’
Meet the Fockers (movie 2004) review: A quartet of award-winning cast members waste their talent and prestige in this idiotized Ben Stiller comedy. Jay Roach directed.