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[See “Entry from June 20, 2007” under “My Diary”]
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[See “Entry from June 20, 2007” under “My Diary”]
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Did Mr Rogers’s extraordinary capacity for love end up producing a generation of haters?
Good Will Hunting by Gus Van Sant is, like Kicked in the Head, an illustration of what happens when you hand beardless boys $20 million dollars or so and say, “Go make a movie, kid.” Good Will is better than Kicked, but then anything this side of Flubber is better than Kicked. The boys in…
Pity poor Pat Tillman, fated to be a posthumous propaganda tool for one side or the other in our increasingly graceless public dialogue on matters of war and peace
This silly and mindless remake of an American classic is a huge disappointment
Deconstructing Harry by Woody Allen is like every other Woody Allen movie: a succession of more or less good jokes bound together by an essentially puerile fantasy. Or, in this case, a succession of interlocking fantasies. Harry Block (Mr Allen) is a novelist who is forever mining his chaotic private life for material for his…
A movie about abortion that makes Juno or Knocked Up look as trivial and sentimental as most other Hollywood products