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“It’s stupid, really,” Blake Morrison tells his wife. “You spend a lifetime trying to avoid talking to someone, and then all of a sudden it’s too late.” He has returned to the Yorkshire town where he was born, and where his father is dying. Surely, his wife says, this is
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“It’s stupid, really,” Blake Morrison tells his wife. “You spend a lifetime trying to avoid talking to someone, and then all of a sudden it’s too late.” He has returned to the Yorkshire town where he was born, and where his father is dying. Surely, his wife says, this is
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George Hogg is a British journalist sent to China to cover the 1930s war involving Japanese invaders and Communist and Nationalist Chinese. It’s surprising he survived a day. Inexperienced and naive, he journeys into unfamiliar territory and spends way too much time standing in full view and taking photos.
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George Hogg is a British journalist sent to China to cover the 1930s war involving Japanese invaders and Communist and Nationalist Chinese. It’s surprising he survived a day. Inexperienced and naive, he journeys into unfamiliar territory and spends way too much time standing in full view and taking photos. Some of
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I have been waiting for this for years: a superhero movie where the actions of the superheroes have consequences in the real world. They always leave a wake of crashed cars, bursting fire hydrants, exploding gas stations and toppling bridges behind them, and never go back to clean up. But
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I have been waiting for this for years: a superhero movie where the actions of the superheroes have consequences in the real world. They always leave a wake of crashed cars, bursting fire hydrants, exploding gas stations and toppling bridges behind them, and never go back to clean up. But
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Wanted slams the pedal to the metal and never slows down. Here’s an action picture that’s exhausting in its relentless violence and its ingenuity in inventing new ways to attack, defend, ambush and annihilate. Expanding on a technique I first saw in David O. Russell’s Three Kings, it follows individual
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Wanted slams the pedal to the metal and never slows down. Here’s an action picture that’s exhausting in its relentless violence and its ingenuity in inventing new ways to attack, defend, ambush and annihilate. Expanding on a technique I first saw in David O. Russell’s Three Kings, it follows individual
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“Mongols need laws. I will make them obey — even if I have to kill half of them.” — Genghis Khan Sergei Bodrov’s Mongol is a ferocious film, blood-soaked, pausing occasionally for passionate romance and more frequently for torture. As a visual spectacle, it is all but overwhelming, putting to
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“Mongols need laws. I will make them obey — even if I have to kill half of them.” — Genghis Khan Sergei Bodrov’s Mongol is a ferocious film, blood-soaked, pausing occasionally for passionate romance and more frequently for torture. As a visual spectacle, it is all but overwhelming, putting to
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What is it with Mike Myers and penis jokes? Having created a classic funny scene with his not-quite-visible penis sketch in the first Austin Powers movie, he now assembles, in The Love Guru, as many more penis jokes as he can think of, none of them funny except for one
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What is it with Mike Myers and penis jokes? Having created a classic funny scene with his not-quite-visible penis sketch in the first Austin Powers movie, he now assembles, in The Love Guru, as many more penis jokes as he can think of, none of them funny except for one
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The closing credits of Get Smart mention Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, creators of the original TV series, as “consultants.” Their advice must have been: “If it works, don’t fix it.” There have been countless comic spoofs of the genre founded by James Bond, but Get Smart (both on TV
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The closing credits of Get Smart mention Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, creators of the original TV series, as “consultants.” Their advice must have been: “If it works, don’t fix it.” There have been countless comic spoofs of the genre founded by James Bond, but Get Smart (both on TV
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“If the bee disappears from the surface of the Earth, man would have no more than four years to live” — Albert Einstein An alarming prospect, and all the more so because there has been a recent decline in the honeybee population. Perhaps it is comforting to know that Einstein never
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“If the bee disappears from the surface of the Earth, man would have no more than four years to live” — Albert Einstein An alarming prospect, and all the more so because there has been a recent decline in the honeybee population. Perhaps it is comforting to know that Einstein never
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Tarsem’s The Fall is a mad folly, an extravagant visual orgy, a free-fall from reality into uncharted realms. Surely it is one of the wildest indulgences a director has ever granted himself. Tarsem, for two decades a leading director of music videos and TV commercials, spent millions of his own
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Tarsem’s The Fall is a mad folly, an extravagant visual orgy, a free-fall from reality into uncharted realms. Surely it is one of the wildest indulgences a director has ever granted himself. Tarsem, for two decades a leading director of music videos and TV commercials, spent millions of his own
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The Incredible Hulk is no doubt an ideal version of the Hulk saga for those who found Ang Lee’s Hulk (2003) too talky or, dare I say, too thoughtful. But not for me. It sidesteps the intriguing aspects of Hulkdom and spends way too much time in, dare I say,
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The Incredible Hulk is no doubt an ideal version of the Hulk saga for those who found Ang Lee’s Hulk (2003) too talky or, dare I say, too thoughtful. But not for me. It sidesteps the intriguing aspects of Hulkdom and spends way too much time in, dare I say,
