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Slate Magazine - Oct 10, 2008
Body of Lies (Warner Bros.), the new Ridley Scott thriller about Iraq, is virtually indistinguishable from The Kingdom or Rendition or any number of terrorist-themed recent thrillers in which interchangeable Arabs in …
Slate Magazine - Oct 3, 2008
Jonathan Demme has reached a point in his career where he can make whatever movie he damn well pleases. A documentary about a Haitian radio host (The Agronomist)! A portrait of Jimmy Carter on book tour (Man From …
Newsweek Top News - Sep 27, 2008
Paul Newman played a lot of antiheroes, but his cool charm made viewers love him all the same.
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Slate Magazine - Sep 26, 2008
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (Interpositive Media), a portrait of the infamous Republican operative who helped elect Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush before succumbing to brain cancer at age 40, may not be the …
Newsweek Top News - Sep 25, 2008
Daniel Radcliffe takes it all off on Broadway. Does anyone care?
Also tagged: entertainment, hollywood, celebrity news, movie stars, daniel radcliffe, motion picture association of america, alan strang
Slate Magazine - Sep 18, 2008
Ghost Town (DreamWorks), a romantic comedy about a haunted dentist in New York City, doesn't do justice to the manifold gifts of Ricky Gervais, the co-creator and star of the BBC series The Office and HBO's Extras …
Slate Magazine - Sep 11, 2008
After No Country for Old Men's rapturous (to my mind, overly so) reception at the Oscars, the Coen brothers have returned to the kind of movie that made their name: an arch black comedy about provincial losers on the …
Slate Magazine - Aug 13, 2008
If you go see Tropic Thunder this weekend, don't be late. The four fake ads that open the movie are perhaps the apex of its considerable comic invention. After a sleazy pitch for an energy drink called Alpa Chino's …
Slate Magazine - Aug 6, 2008
Pineapple Express is this summer's precise equivalent to Superbad: a Judd Apatow-produced buddy comedy directed by a proxy from the indie world (last time around, it was The Daytrippers' Greg Mottola; this time it's …
Slate Magazine - Jul 10, 2008
When people say that comic books are as close as our secular late-capitalist culture gets to having its own mythology, it's not generally meant as a compliment. But over the course of two Hellboy movies (based on the …