Because a foundation formed in blood and guts does not form a respectable Hollywood legacy, Lionsgate decided to unceremoniously dump "The Midnight Meat Train" into a bare-bones release this past weekend, just so, conceivably, the studio can…
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How did Genghis Khan get to be Genghis Khan? Russian director Sergei Bodrov explores the subject in “Mongol,” a beautifully filmed, sprawling epic tracing the early life of Temudgin, the birth name of the man who matured into the…
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理发师陶德英文名:Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Tim Burton makes fantasy movies. Stephen Sondheim writes musicals. It is hard to think of two more optimistic genres of popular art, or of two popular artists who…
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Writer Blake Morrison (Firth) never had the best of relationships with eccentric doctor father, Arthur (Broadbent). Blake remembers a childhood largely devoid of paternal love, and Arthur's affair with another woman put his relationships…
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The good old legitimate theatre, the temple of Thespis and Art, which has dished out a lot of high derision of Hollywood in its time, had better be able to take it as well as dish it out, because the worm has finally turned with a venom and …
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In the pantheon of fantasy writers, no diety is treated with greater reverence than J.R.R. Tolkien, who is regarded by most readers as the Father of Modern Fantasy. During the past three decades, the fantasy area in bookstores has expanded f…
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At the end of Superman II, the producers promised "Coming Soon: Superman III." It has taken 26 years for that promise to be fulfilled. To be sure, there were movies in the 1980s called Superman III and Superman IV, but those were bad jokes m…
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眼前的生活英文名为:The Life Before Her Eyes “The Life Before Her Eyes” plays an irritating game of narrative hide-and-seek, continually doubling back on itself to revisit the trauma from which all else evolves. Eac…
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There's no question that Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is designed more for fans of the book than for those who have never picked up a J.K. Rowling tome. However, while that makes sense financially (after all, the target audien…
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At once fuzzy-wuzzy and industrial strength, the tacky-sounding “Kung Fu Panda” is high concept with a heart. Even better, this animated feature from DreamWorks is so consistently diverting and visually arresting that it succeeds…
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"The Lake House," a wondrously illogical time-travel romance directed by Alejandro Agresti, is notable mainly for reuniting Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, who together survived a harrowing bus ride in "Speed." That was 12 years ago —…
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Venturing deep into the trenches where hard-working Americans struggle to put food on the table, Courtney Hunt’s somber film “Frozen River” evokes a perfect storm of present-day woes: illegal immigration, ethnic tension, de…
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Sequels are a tricky business; they're required by their nature to deliver the same general action as the original, but they're desired to do so in a completely different way than before. The result is usually 'more of the same…
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Quiet as the publicity department at Paramount has tried to keep it, the earth is under attack by aliens. I know what you're thinking: what, again? Once upon a time - for example, in 1938, when Orson Welles scared the bejesus out of Amer…
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