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Film review: Kung Fu Panda

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:55:46 -0400

Jack Black brings his slacker persona to the voice role of a lazy panda who needs to transform himself into a kung-fu master in this winning animated film.

Book Vs. Film: The Graduate

Fri, 30 May 2008 12:51:48 -0400

Book + personality = classic.

Feature: I Watched This On Purpose: Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:03:30 -0400

Nobody liked this movie. Were they all wrong?

DVD review: Tootsie

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:04:44 -0500

Since the collapse of the studio system in the ‘60s, well-crafted Hollywood comedies have been hard to find. This is one of them.

Film review: Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:53:05 -0500

Dustin Hoffman plays a mush-mouthed Willy Wonka in this derivative children's fantasy about a magical toy store.

DVD review: The Graduate

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:57:21 -0400

40 years later, Mike Nichols' classic comedy of Boomer disaffection still feels fresh.

My Year Of Flops Case File 3: Ishtar

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:00:45 -0500

Hones and popular don't go hand in hand

Film review: Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:04:58 -0500

Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer adapts Patrick Süskind's novel about the grisly origins of the world's finest scent.

Film review: Stranger Than Fiction

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:46:54 -0500

In this Charlie Kaufman-like metafictional romantic comedy, Will Ferrell searches for the author who created him.

DVD review: Midnight Cowboy

Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:23:33 -0500

It still seems remarkable that an X-rated movie ever won Best Picture, but is it an example of the counterculture subverting Hollywood, or being co-opted by it? Maybe a little of both.