Fistful of Dollars
[See “Entry from July 25, 2007” under “My Diary”]
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[See “Entry from July 25, 2007” under “My Diary”]
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Sofia Coppola has won all sorts of golden opinions for this movie, as has Bill Murray — but nothing happens in it!
At the climax of Frequency, directed by Gregory Hoblit from a script by Toby Emmerich., we see both Frank Sullivan (Dennis Quaid) and his grown son, Johnny, a.k.a. the Chief (Jim Caviezel), fighting with the same man (Shawn Doyle), the sort of policeman-cum-serial killer of a sort that only seems to exist in the movies….
All by itself, X-men seems to have turned around Hollywood’s summer, earning $57.5 million in its opening weekend (more than any other July film, ever) and making a lacklustre box office into something not far short of boffo. As to an adult sensibility (but who has one of those anymore?) this techno-fantasy may look all…
An occasionally enjoyable portrait of life for a latter-day version of the Noble Savage in the (very) low country off the Louisiana coast
One of those rare movies that manages to improve on an already fine fictional original
A deeply unfunny movie, apparently, to nobody but me.
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