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Saturday, 15 September 2007 |
 If you’ve ever wondered why most actors (as opposed to movie stars) would rather play villains than heroes, watch Russell Crowe and Christian Bale in “3:10 to Yuma.” Both do excellent work but Bale, as the hero, seems to be working a lot harder for a smaller portion of audience admiration. Ben Wade, Crowe’s charismatic villain, is so smart, sexy, confident and funny, while never denying he’s pure evil, you can understand why Hell is more crowded than Heaven.
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Saturday, 15 September 2007 |
 Tarantino’s gunfighter daddy must have told young Quentin, “No matter how fast you are there’s always a faster one somewhere.” Now older and wiser, Quentin has been outdrawn by Michael Davis, a writer-director whose previous films went straight to video or cable. “Shoot ‘em Up” plays like Davis went through Tarantino’s wastebasket for the ideas QT rejected as too preposterous and has strung them together into a script that’s yielded the fastest, funniest action movie you’re likely to see this year.
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Sunday, 26 August 2007 |
 The song exaggerates when it says, "War - what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!" War is adequate entertainment for easily amused fans of violent Asian action movies, but there's nothing in it that hasn't been done before -better - by John Woo and others. This one's more international than most, set in San Francisco (though mostly filmed in Vancouver, B.C.), with an English FBI agent, Crawford (Jason Statham), as the hero.
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Sunday, 26 August 2007 |
 Mr. Bean is an idiot. That's a description, not a judgment, as fans of Rowan Atkinson's signature character will happily attest. It's the lucky comic actor who finds a viable persona like Mr. Bean that can be placed in any situation and counted on to behave in the same crowd-pleasing way. From Chaplin's Little Tramp to Ball's Lucy to Baron Cohen's Borat, they've been predictably hilarious while keeping writers busy finding new settings for their antics.
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Sunday, 26 August 2007 |
 Zombies, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, ghouls, sharks. To the pantheon of classic movie monsters, add the most fearsome of all: Mormons! September Dawn uses the classic horror plot of unsuspecting travelers stranded near the place Where Evil Dwells, to make a movie that's a horror in more ways than one. You needn't feel any sympathy for the Mormon religion in general to be offended by the way they're being maligned here.
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Sunday, 26 August 2007 |
 Samuel L. Jackson is as good as any actor working today but some filmmakers hire him to be Hammy Sammy, in hopes that he'll chew the scenery and spit out something better than the original script. That's not the case in Resurrecting the Champ, or perhaps co-star Josh Hartnett didn't provide enough of a challenge to make Jackson expend a lot of energy.
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Sunday, 26 August 2007 |
 The original Top Ten list, the Bill of Wrongs: The Ten Commandments have been film fodder for people as diverse as Cecil B. DeMille and Krzysztof Kieslowski since Charlton Heston carried them home from Mount Sinai Hospital. Now they get a whack from director David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer) and his co-writer Ken Marino.
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