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Sunday, 30 September 2007 |
 Some movies
should only be watched on DVD, where you have the option of pausing and
reversing to catch things you missed, rather than having to buy another ticket
and watch the whole movie again. There are two reasons you’ll want to
have control over “The Kingdom”:
1. Action scenes in which it’s hard to tell
who’s doing what to whom...
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Friday, 05 October 2007 |
 High on any
list of films that don’t need remaking is “The Heartbreak Kid,” directed by
Elaine May in 1972 from a screenplay by Neil Simon. The Farrelly Brothers
noticed some things were missing from the original and, with three other
writers, included them in a new version: jokes about anal rape, bestiality and
deviated septums due to cocaine abuse (stay through the credits for the punch
line on this).
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Friday, 21 September 2007 |
 Americans who base their opinions of the war in Iraq purely on self-interest
need to see “In the Valley of Elah.” No, not all the
men who go over come back – if they come back – physically or psychologically
damaged, but enough do that we need to take a hard look at why we’re sending
them there in the first place, and why they’re not getting the support they need
when they return.
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Friday, 21 September 2007 |
 If all were truly well that ends well, “The
Hunting Party” would be one of the year’s best movies. The epilogue expands on
the cryptic introduction, “Only the most ridiculous parts of this story are
true,” and links the policies behind the events pictured to the person who
should be in the back of your mind throughout.
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Friday, 21 September 2007 |
 There’s not a moment in the college comedy
“Sydney White” that isn’t likable. In fact, there’s nothing in the movie you
haven’t liked before. It’s “Mean Girls” meets “Revenge of the Nerds” meets
"Heathers," “Pumpkin,” “Saved!” and “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” for
starters, with even a touch of “Spartacus” thrown in.
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Friday, 05 October 2007 |
 Good and Evil have a new battleground in “The Seeker: The Dark Is
Rising,” a rousing tween fantasy-adventure for boys and men who can “step
through time” to when they were boys. The fate of the world rests on the
shoulders of Will Stanton (Alexander Ludwig), the seventh son (although he
doesn’t know about his twin brother, Tom, who vanished in infancy) of a seventh
son.
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Friday, 21 September 2007 |
 Did the recent London stage success of “Equus” (coming to Broadway
next year) stem from audience curiosity about Daniel Radcliffe’s versatility or
Harry Potter’s d--k? The answer may be provided by “December Boys,” which lets
Radcliffe play a different type of teenager (though still an orphan) but keeps
his magic wand under wraps.
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