Hey, Tim Burton: Your pet project is tanking all over this great land! What are you going to do now? “I’m going to ruin yet another beloved property — this time one of my own! But first, I’m going to gratuitously remind everybody that one of my old collaborators is a sex offender!” Surprising...
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel — Reviewed this week. (PG-13) Dark Shadows — Reviewed this week. (PG-13) Darling Companion — In Lawrence Kasdan’s latest, Diane Keaton plays a woman who embarks on a...
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Predicting summer box office is always a dicey proposition: I never get tired of pointing out that Premiere Magazine thought Days of Thunder was going to be the top warm-weather movie of 1990, instead of a cautionary chapter in Don Simpson’s posthumous biography. Some of the entries in my 2012 forecast are going to...
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Damsels in Distress — Whit Stillman directed this comedy about a quartet of college girls whose personal romances overlap with their campus-outreach activities, like suicide prevention and frat-house cleanliness. (Hands up if you’d rather see a film about frat-house suicide and cleanliness prevention.) (PG-13) Marvel’s The Avengers — Reviewed this week. (PG-13) Monsieur Lazhar...
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On the same day we got to see this (pay special attention to :45): … we also learned THIS. Um … oops. Heh heh. Hey, Barry Meyer: Smoke if ya got ’em!
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Nothing turns me off more quickly than hearing the phrase “Give the people what they want.” Somehow, even at this late stage in the collapse of global capitalism, there are people who actually believe that the key to success in business is to determine what the public is craving and then figure out how...
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The Five-Year Engagement — Jason Segel and Nick Stoller attempt to recapture that Forgetting Sarah Marshall magic via this portrait of a young couple on a long and winding path toward matrimony. That path had better include some fuckin’ vampire puppets, is all I’m saying. (R) Footnote — Reviewed this issue. (PG) The Pirates!...
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It’s rare that somebody does an adequate job of explaining the modus operandi of “edgy” 21st-century humor, but in defending his increasingly controversial “Anne Frank” routine to The Jewish Chronicle Online, Ricky Gervais just about nails it: I can see if you took this routine at face value as my real opinion on this...
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Chimpanzee — Reviewed this week. (PG) The Lucky One — Zac Efron plays a Marine in pursuit of the mystery woman whose photo gave him something to live for during his service in Iraq. And in case you were still wondering which demo this picture is aimed at, it turns out she works with...
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As Jon Stewart goes, so goes the nation. And when he says the media feeding frenzy over the George Zimmerman trial has begun, it truly has begun. Central Florida can now sleep soundly in its collective bed, knowing that the coming months will once again thrust us into the national spotlight 24/7 as a...
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