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Battle Shock Three and a half stars Stars: Alan Rickman, Chris Pine and Bill Pullman Director: Randall Miller Rated: PG-13 for brief strong language, some sexual content and a scene of drug use Battle of the wines In 1976, the year of the American bicentennial, the tall ships sailed from Europe to America and back again.
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Battle Shock Three and a half stars Stars: Alan Rickman, Chris Pine and Bill Pullman Director: Randall Miller Rated: PG-13 for brief strong language, some sexual content and a scene of drug use Battle of the wines In 1976, the year of the American bicentennial, the tall ships sailed from Europe to America and back again.
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I am afraid of heights. Now you know. That is one reason I was helplessly engrossed in Man on Wire, the story of how Philippe Petit crossed EIGHT TIMES on a tightwire between the two towers of the World Trade Center on Aug. 7, 1974. Another reason is that the
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I am afraid of heights. Now you know. That is one reason I was helplessly engrossed in Man on Wire, the story of how Philippe Petit crossed EIGHT TIMES on a tightwire between the two towers of the World Trade Center on Aug. 7, 1974. Another reason is that the
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TORONTO — First the long windup. Then the fast pitch. The Toronto Film Festival, always front-loaded, exploded over the weekend with movies day and night, all over town, every audience movie-savvy, every theater selling bran muffins right next to the popcorn, thousands of volunteers in their blue T-shirts like a
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TORONTO — First the long windup. Then the fast pitch. The Toronto Film Festival, always front-loaded, exploded over the weekend with movies day and night, all over town, every audience movie-savvy, every theater selling bran muffins right next to the popcorn, thousands of volunteers in their blue T-shirts like a
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What a pleasure this movie is, showcasing actresses I’ve admired for a long time, all at the top of their form. Yes, they’re older now, as are we all, but they look great and know what they’re doing. The Women is not, as it claims, “based on the play by
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What a pleasure this movie is, showcasing actresses I’ve admired for a long time, all at the top of their form. Yes, they’re older now, as are we all, but they look great and know what they’re doing. The Women is not, as it claims, “based on the play by
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TORONTO — How did the 33rd Toronto Film Festival stack up against previous years? I’ve been to 31 of them, and as usual I had a great time. I saw about 30 movies, interviewed some fascinating people, met a lot of friends, and saw movies with audiences who know and
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TORONTO — How did the 33rd Toronto Film Festival stack up against previous years? I’ve been to 31 of them, and as usual I had a great time. I saw about 30 movies, interviewed some fascinating people, met a lot of friends, and saw movies with audiences who know and
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The Coen brothers’ Burn After Reading is a screwball comedy that occasionally becomes something more. The characters are zany, the plot coils upon itself with dizzy zeal, and the roles seem like a perfect fit for the actors — yes, even Brad Pitt as Chad, a gum-chewing, fuzzy-headed physical fitness
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The Coen brothers’ Burn After Reading is a screwball comedy that occasionally becomes something more. The characters are zany, the plot coils upon itself with dizzy zeal, and the roles seem like a perfect fit for the actors — yes, even Brad Pitt as Chad, a gum-chewing, fuzzy-headed physical fitness
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TORONTO — In the beginning it was happy to sell out a 500-seat theater. Now the Toronto Film Festival requires 35 theaters and assorted screening rooms, starting with the 2,800-seat Roy Thomson Hall. If you’re a moviegoer in central Toronto and want to avoid the festival, you’ve got your work
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TORONTO — In the beginning it was happy to sell out a 500-seat theater. Now the Toronto Film Festival requires 35 theaters and assorted screening rooms, starting with the 2,800-seat Roy Thomson Hall. If you’re a moviegoer in central Toronto and want to avoid the festival, you’ve got your work
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TORONTO — In Denver and St. Paul, the streets are filled with demonstrators against the political conventions. Here in Toronto, there were demonstrators outside at opening night of the Toronto Film Festival. What were they demonstrating against? Cuts in government spending for the arts. O, Canada! The festival is the
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TORONTO — In Denver and St. Paul, the streets are filled with demonstrators against the political conventions. Here in Toronto, there were demonstrators outside at opening night of the Toronto Film Festival. What were they demonstrating against? Cuts in government spending for the arts. O, Canada! The festival is the
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Sometimes two performances come along that are so perfectly matched that no overt signals are needed to show how the characters feel about each other. That’s what happens between Melissa Leo and Misty Upham in Frozen River, playing two mothers who live without male support in shabby house trailers on
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Sometimes two performances come along that are so perfectly matched that no overt signals are needed to show how the characters feel about each other. That’s what happens between Melissa Leo and Misty Upham in Frozen River, playing two mothers who live without male support in shabby house trailers on
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This thing is hilarious. The problem with a sequel to Hamlet is that everybody interesting is dead by the end. That doesn’t discourage Dana Marschz, a Tucson high school drama teacher, from trying to save the school’s theater program with a sequel named Hamlet 2. The shop class builds him a
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This thing is hilarious. The problem with a sequel to Hamlet is that everybody interesting is dead by the end. That doesn’t discourage Dana Marschz, a Tucson high school drama teacher, from trying to save the school’s theater program with a sequel named Hamlet 2. The shop class builds him a
