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Written by Steve Warren
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Sunday, 26 August 2007 |
 When American Pie meets American Graffiti it's Superbad; and it's supergood. Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40 Year Old Virgin) just produces this time, leaving the directing to Greg Mottola (The Daytrippers and some great series TV). Seth Rogen is an executive producer, writer and supporting actor as Jonah Hill and Michael Cera (Arrested Development) move into the leads and the repertory company grows.
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Written by Steve Warren
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Sunday, 26 August 2007 |
 The British film industry these days is largely geared toward the international market, so except for TV it's rare to see the kind of dark comedies that flowed steadily from the late ‘40s through the ‘60s and gave us the likes of Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers. The occasional Keeping Mum is such an anomaly that it's taken an England-born American, Frank Oz, to make the best (and most) British comedy in years: Death at a Funeral.
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Written by Martin Kelley
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Sunday, 26 August 2007 |
 Some film subjects never get old. A fresh take on adolescence is certainly one of them. It's a time so ripe with drama that I think one can instantly garner sympathy for a character when the topic is treated right. Rocket Science treats the subject very right.
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Friday, 10 August 2007 |
 Three words of advice for Cuba Gooding Jr.: Jerry
Maguire Two. A classic example of an Oscar winner who can't get a decent role, Gooding has
been taking to extremes the words of his father, who sang with one hit wonders
the Main Ingredient, "Everybody plays the fool sometimes."
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Written by Steve Warren
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Friday, 10 August 2007 |
 Too late in Broken English, the first
feature written and directed by the well-pedigreed Zoe Cassavetes, Nora Wilder
(Parker Posey) says, "It's time I got my sense of humor back." She lost it about an hour ago, around the time she said to her mother (Gena
Rowlands, also the director's mother), "I can't stand the sight of my own
desperation."
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Written by Steve Warren
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Friday, 10 August 2007 |
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 Stardust is a great little movie
trapped in the body of a summer blockbuster. It should have been called Stardust 3, sharing as it does the
excesses that spoiled the third editions of Spider-Man,
Shrek and Pirates of the Caribbean. Like The Princess
Bride on steroids, this bloated fairy tale has a lot of charm and humor in
addition to too much plot...
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Written by Steve Warren
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Friday, 10 August 2007 |
 Brett Ratner turns low comedy into high art in the Rush Hour movies. Well, maybe middlebrow art, but there's
definitely an art to the way he makes commercial movies. Unlike the Bourne films that keep
getting better or the Pirates of the
Caribbean films that get worse, the Rush
Hours stay pretty much the same.
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