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Man on a Ledge Is a Leap into the Familiar

By Brian Miller
Jan 26, 2012

The hero of the red-herring heist flick Man on a Ledge draws two reactions from the Manhattan throng beneath his 21st-floor perch on a midtown hotel. The first, of course, is the predictable "just get it over with" impatience of New Yorkers impeded by police barricades. The second is unlikely...
Unstoppable: Denzel Washington and Chris Pine Save Small-Town USA

By Brian Miller
Nov 11, 2010

Though based on actual 2001 events in Ohio that caused an unmanned freight train, laden with toxic waste, to go haywire, Unstoppable could just as well be set in the shining sun of Reagan's 1980s. As the driverless locomotive begins gathering speed across rural Pennsylvania, bedecked with autumn leaves, it...
In Leap Year, Amy Adams Is Trapped in the Land of Blarney, Cow Pies, and Forced Humiliation

By Brian Miller
Jan 7, 2010

Is this a commercial for the National Tourism Council of Ireland or for the conditioner Amy Adams uses in her hair? Either way, both look fabulous. Then there's the movie, a soggy affair directed with no great enthusiasm by Anand Tucker. Leap Year draws its dubious premise from a supposed...
DVDs by Sam Raimi, Wes Craven, and Other Masters of Horror Can Turn Your Pad into a Haunted House

By Brian Miller
Oct 29, 2009

Apart from the stray slasher flick, Halloween is traditionally a dead spot on the Hollywood calendar. This week's big release? The Michael Jackson tribute film This Is It — creepy in its own right. But Universal Studios has been raiding its catacombs for DVD reissues. Let's brush the cobwebs aside...
Renée Zellweger in New in Town Leaves Us Cold

By Brian Miller
Jan 29, 2009

She's too thin. She's a bobble-head. Her forehead doesn't move. Where has that Jerry Maguire girl gone, the one we once knew and loved? Did the Oscar from Cold Mountain ruin her forever? Or is Kenny Chesney to blame? It's not easy being America's Sweetheart. Nor is it any easier...

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