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Robert Downey Jr. is movin’ on up
- The rise, fall and subsequent resurrection of Robert Downey Jr. have been documented to the point of tedium. By now, the derogatory labels once attached to a young star whose drug addiction led him first to rehab and later to prison seem more and more like footnotes to a career marked by critical and commercial successes.
‘Freaks and Geeks’ alumni reunite on silver screen
- Judd Apatow has been down this road before, and it’s hard to argue with the results.
- Judd Apatow has been down this road before, and it’s hard to argue with the results.
A year in the life of an ‘American Teen’
- Growing up in the 1980s, Nanette Burstein bore witness to a new wave of teen comedies that made light of adolescent angst without trivializing it, movies that seemed to speak the language of their audience in honest, sympathetic terms.
Costner wields power in ‘Swing Vote’
- Just because he’s starring in the season’s most political-minded comedy, don’t expect Kevin Costner to endorse a candidate in the upcoming presidential election anytime soon.
- Just because he’s starring in the season’s most political-minded comedy, don’t expect Kevin Costner to endorse a candidate in the upcoming presidential election anytime soon.
Review: Serviceable ‘X-Files’ stands alone
- Even in the estimation of its ardent followers, “The X-Files” has rarely been a model of consistency, if only because creator Chris Carter’s vision is so audaciously complex that it sometimes collapses beneath the weight of its own ambition.
Review: A thrilling ‘Dark Knight’
- Even if “The Dark Knight” didn’t represent Heath Ledger’s swan song, it would mark a high point in the late actor’s career. Ledger’s accent has sometimes sounded geographically challenged when he’s been asked to abandon his native Australian one, but here he reinvents himself entirely, trading in his authoritative baritone for a nasal snarl worthy of a sadistic jester.
- Even if “The Dark Knight” didn’t represent Heath Ledger’s swan song, it would mark a high point in the late actor’s career. Ledger’s accent has sometimes sounded geographically challenged when he’s been asked to abandon his native Australian one, but here he reinvents himself entirely, trading in his authoritative baritone for a nasal snarl worthy of a sadistic jester.
Review: For brazen Hellboy, it’s not easy being red
- Life is never easy for the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense’s human minions.
Review: An odd kind of hero
- I’d like to see a sequel to “Hancock.” Here’s a movie filled with bright ideas, crammed uncomfortably into a story burdened by confusing and often contradictory exposition. It begins as a comedy and ends rather unexpectedly with a flourish of melodrama, but it’s never dull.
- I’d like to see a sequel to “Hancock.” Here’s a movie filled with bright ideas, crammed uncomfortably into a story burdened by confusing and often contradictory exposition. It begins as a comedy and ends rather unexpectedly with a flourish of melodrama, but it’s never dull.
Review: ‘WALL-E’ is Pixar perfect
- What a wonderful world
- What a wonderful world
The man behind ‘WALL*E’
- There’s something to be said for an idea that won’t go away, especially when it’s conceived by a man whose creative track record remains gloriously unblemished.
- There’s something to be said for an idea that won’t go away, especially when it’s conceived by a man whose creative track record remains gloriously unblemished.
Review: ‘Hulk’ isn’t incredible
- If French director Louis Leterrier’s goal in rebooting the “Hulk” saga for the big screen was to distance Marvel’s franchise from Ang Lee’s brooding 2003 deconstruction of the not-so-jolly green giant, you’d have to consider “The Incredible Hulk” a rousing success: While Lee incurred the wrath of comic-book disciples with his thoughtful character study, Leterrier and screenwriter Zak Penn dispense with the angst and focus on the smash.
- If French director Louis Leterrier’s goal in rebooting the “Hulk” saga for the big screen was to distance Marvel’s franchise from Ang Lee’s brooding 2003 deconstruction of the not-so-jolly green giant, you’d have to consider “The Incredible Hulk” a rousing success: While Lee incurred the wrath of comic-book disciples with his thoughtful character study, Leterrier and screenwriter Zak Penn dispense with the angst and focus on the smash.
Review: Trek down ‘Foot Fist Way’
- Fred Simmons is a crude caricature of a human being, boorishly oblivious and misanthropic in his dealings with his adulterous wife (Mary Jane Bostic) and the students at his tae kwon do academy.
- Fred Simmons is a crude caricature of a human being, boorishly oblivious and misanthropic in his dealings with his adulterous wife (Mary Jane Bostic) and the students at his tae kwon do academy.
Robert Haynes-Peterson
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Grand Marnier launches limited edition 'La Vie' bottle for the holidays
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Visiting Croatia wine Country: The Zelina wine road in the forest primeval
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