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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A movie that is too respectful to some of the heroes of the Second World War for its own good
Middle-aged women become overnight celebrities by taking their clothes off. Phooahh! That’s what I call empowerment
Only a child of the 1960s could have thought of the idea of trying to make Bob Crane into a tragic hero — or come as close as Paul Schrader does to succeeding.
Tomorrow Never Dies, directed by Roger Spottiswoode is the latest in the seemingly endless chain of James Bond films. It is a disappointment. One of the few pleasures that conservatives could take in the Hollywood product of the late Cold War — that is watching an unashamed cold warrior fighting the commies for the good…
Beautiful People, written and directed by Jasmin Dizdar, is what we might call a Rodney King movie—a relatively harmless, feel-good concoction of a familiar kind which asks, rhetorically, “Why can’t we all just get along?” Of course, neither Jasmin Dizdar nor Rodney King is interested in any answer there may be to their question. Instead,…
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