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[See discussion under “My Diary” for June 27, 2013]
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A not-uninteresting first feature from Dylan Kidd is a little too glib about providing its hero with the fixings for a moral makeover, but, all the same, it’s hard not to like him.
Some people are fiddling with one of the greatest classics of the American popular culture without, apparently, knowing what they’ve got their hands on
Whatever It Takes, directed by David Raynr and written by Mark Schwahn is yet another in the seemingly endless stream of movies which attempt to translate classic literature into American High School stories. This fad began in 1995 with what is still the best of its kind, Amy Heckerling’s adaptation of Emma, by Jane Austen,…
An investigation into her family’s darkest secrets by Wunderkind director, Sarah Polley
Another funny, touching film about the relations between fathers and sons from the director of The Lost Embrace
Ready to Rumble, directed by Brian Robbins and written by Steven Brill, might have been called “Dumb and Dumber Go to the Mat.” Its ostensible look behind the scenes at professional wrestling could have followed the trail blazed by the excellent Beyond the Mat, reviewed here last month. Instead the movie settles for repeated attempts…
