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For a movie built around questions of failed ethics and duplicitous behavior, Street Kings is just as dishonest as its characters. Though conceived as yet another sobering frontline report on law enforcement's ever-expanding gray area, director David Ayer's grim police thriller mostly plays as one long dick-measuring competition. You sense...
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Seven nights of DJs and dancing
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Seven nights of DJs and dancing
Tom, Dick, and Harry: Members of the Peter Hill fan club, rejoice! Your fave dog track director is not only at the helm of this Arizona première; he's the star! Ray Cooney's latest British farce has something to do with a better-than-middle-aged couple who've adopted a baby. The dame from...
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The Band's Visit made headlines after being disqualified as Israel's foreign-language submission to the 2008 Academy Awards — an ironic fate, indeed, for a movie that takes language as its very subject. The official ruling of the Oscar referees was that too much of the film's dialogue is in English,...
In comic books, one of the coolest things that can happen is when two great superheroes — like, say, Superman and the Flash or Spider-Man and the Incredible Hulk — join forces for a one-off adventure that, if executed properly, will be remembered by fanboys for years to come. Marvel...
Guess who's still facing 21 years in prison? Yep, it's Bryant Wilkerson, the black driver who had the misfortune of colliding with a drunk driver last Cinco de Mayo — and was charged with nine felonies for it. The case drew a firestorm after I wrote about it in January...
No Country for Old Men (Paramount) "A horror comedy chase" is how a grinning Tommy Lee Jones describes No Country for Old Men in the making-of — meanwhile, his fellow actors add to the list such adjectives as "a very primitive ride," "a rabbit chase through Texas," and "a very...
The Sweetest Swing in Baseball: Rebecca Gilman's comedy/drama is turning up just in time for spring training with a study of the cult of celebrity and how it can screw up both idols and fans. Gilman places baseball bad boy Darryl Strawberry at the center of her story, but this...
Considering that the war in Iraq has proved to be Washington's shot-by-shot remake of Vietnam, it's only natural that Hollywood has followed suit, giving us a series of Iraq-themed films that can be set neatly alongside their Vietnam-era counterparts. Just as the initial wave of angry anti-Vietnam documentaries gave way...
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The boxing champ and Dancing With the Stars stud hosts this music-rich bash that also includes scheduled appearances by Will Smith, Reggie Bush, Oscar De La Hoya, and Mayweather's Dancing With the Stars pals Mark Cuban, Wayne Newton, and Jennie Garth. DJ Khaled will provide spins. By the $$$ standards...
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Seven nights of DJs and dancing
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Seven nights of DJs and dancing
Near the beginning of The Counterfeiters, a fact-based Holocaust drama by Austrian filmmaker Stefan Ruzowitzky, we meet Jewish money forger and former jailbird Salomon Sorowitsch (brilliantly played by Karl Markovics), packing to flee Berlin in 1936 with a suitcase full of fake money. We know from an opening coda that...
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Seven nights of DJs and dancing
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How the West was wasted
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Seven nights of DJs and dancing
I used to know a crazy lady who looked exactly like Cloris Leachman. Ella was the kind of crazy that can never be cured; the kind of crazy that struck fear in the hearts of her friends and family, that caused former employees to change their telephone numbers after she...
After an extended leave of absence, Future Shock returns to give y’all the lowdown on some of the biggest “just announced” concerts coming to the Valley. Speaking of comebacks, yo, a few of the biggest and most influential musicians in the world are gonna be making a return to P-Town’s stages in the coming months.