<P>First-time feature director David Yates has won a couple of BAFTA Awards and gotten an Emmy nomination, and critical acclaim for such telefilms as Channel 4's Sex Traffic (2004). And the virtues of a top-notch TV director--briskness on budge…
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<P>Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts. Together. These two fountains of charisma could peel potatoes on-screen and people would line up for miles. Luckily, the stars tackle more substantive material in The Mexican, a quirky melange that defies simple …
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<P>Enjoyably silly, surprisingly sweet romcom, despite an over-reliance on gross-out humour.</P>
<P>What's it all about?<BR>Jason Biggs (American Pie) plays Anderson, a depressed loser who's still recovering from the fact that his last girlfr…
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<P>Of course. That's what I kept saying during "A Christmas Story," every time the movie came up with another one of its memories about growing up in the 1940s. Of course, any nine-year-old kid in the '40s would passionately want, for Christmas…
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<P>The usual function of the "revenge flick" is to allow the viewer to vicariously experience the brutal pleasure of executing that "dish best served cold." It's a basic case of good versus evil, with the former striking back against the latter…
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<P>Mike Leigh's "Happy-Go-Lucky" is the story of a good woman. As simple as that. We first see Poppy peddling her bike through London, and smiling all the time to herself. She stops at a bookshop and tries to cheer up the dour proprietor. No, t…
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<P>Miss Austen Regrets was screened by PBS in America earlier this year. </P>
<P>Here are a selection of American reviews of the film: </P>
<P>Hollywood Reporter</P>
<P> "Austen's life and the world she created in her writing provide amp…
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<P>There are a bunch of theories floating around the fanboy -- and fangirl -- Internet purporting to explain why Penelope is only getting released in theaters now. It did, after all, make its debut all the way back at the 2006 Toronto Film Fest…
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<P>After 9/11, I remember "Serendipity" being sold as a love letter to New York. If you really want to see passion for the character and charm of the city, you could not, in all probability, do better than this movie. It made me nostalgic for a…
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<P>Let me start by saying that Hercules, Walt Disney Pictures' 35th animated feature, makes for good family entertainment. Good, not great. While this film is capable of providing a ninety minute diversion for both kids and adults, it's a far c…
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<P>"Pocahontas II: Journey To A New World" is an above-average Disney sequel. It is a sequel with enough things going for it to get a three-star rating instead of two-and-a-half, the standard for such direct-to-video releases. The approach is a…
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<P>New York Minute goes way beyond any of the girlish movie fantasylands usually presented in films starring Hilary Duff, Anne Hathaway, or Mandy Moore. Indeed The Olsen Twins, or Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen as they now prefer to be called…
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<P>How many different spins have their been on the "buddy film"? From The Odd Couple to Lethal Weapon, it seems that just about every angle has been covered. Then along comes a movie like Guarding Tess that thinks it has a unique twist to this …
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<P>"Over Her Dead Body" may be the worst romantic comedy I've ever seen, although I hesitate to make such a resolute pronouncement about a movie that's so barely even there. Paul Rudd is Henry, a low-key, good-natured veterinarian -- in the mov…
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<P>Pretty Persuasion opens with more promise than it closes with. It doesn't take long for the cattily satirical tone to become monotonous as the characters refuse all attempts at development and the plot treads water into the shallows. The fil…
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