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Liam Neeson Pounds Wolves And The Mini-bar In 'The Grey'
02/03/2012
Joe Carnahan, known for directing slick, macho joyrides such as Smokin’ Aces and The A-Team, just wants to be taken seriously. Apparently his oeuvre is less than respectable, and, like his movies, Carnahan seems preoccupied with how his masculinity is perceived by people. In multiple interviews, he has expressed concerns that his slap-bang action flicks might give you the wrong idea - that Carnahan is an asshole. So what does any bro do when his reputation is under fire? Why, make a grudgingly moody action film replete with manly ruminations and overblown flashbacks - if only for a semblance of character development of course.
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A Better Life
01/30/2012
Among the surprise nominees for this year's Academy Awards is Mexican actor Demian Bichir, a man who has had a recurring role opposite Mary Louise Parker in Showtime's Weeds and ubiquitous fame in his native country, thanks to his part in 1999's widely seen Sexo, pudor y lagrimas. If you were lucky, you may have also caught Bichir's portrayal of Fidel Castro in Steven Soderbergh's two-part Che Guevara biopic, Che. Bichir's recognition this year, for A Better Life (now on DVD), comes deservedly, but as is the case with so many films singled out for acting awards, the merits of Bichir's performance as Carlos, a struggling day laborer in East L.
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Ultrasuede: In Search Of Halston
01/30/2012
Ah, The 70's. The best parts of the 70's were the glamour, the opulence and the overindulgence in places like New York City. In those ways, Halston helped to define the 70's. He worked hard and he played hard. He designed gorgeous, classic women's clothes that were the epitome of all-American glamour. He got his break when he designed what would become Jackie Kennedy's infamous pillbox hat and three-quarter sleeve suit. From there, he developed his own line and designed incredibly well constructed, beautiful women's clothing and was known mainly for his dramatic, flowy gowns.
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Real-life Ass Kicker Goes 'Haywire'
01/23/2012
You have to hand it to Steven Soderbergh. If he is indeed bound for early retirement – or, at the very least, a “sabbatical,” as he has since clarified – then no one can accuse him of resting on his laurels, or indeed simply winding down the clock. Ever eager to push his own boundaries, the director has slalomed his way through the last decade, moving from star-studded, high-gloss entertainment (Oceans 11, 12, 13) through the artistically palatable but commercially unviable likes of Che, to what is now suck-it-and-see genre box-ticking (most recently Contagion).
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Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
01/21/2012
Based on Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2005 modernist novel of the same name, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close takes a look at a broken American family living in post-9/11 New York City. “Too soon” seems to be a non sequitur here, as the film tags itself as being not about 9/11 but about everyday afterwards. And yet director, Stephen Daldry, who is no stranger to “big ideas,” has written an emotional check his movie can’t cash. One year after “The Worst Day” and young Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn) is still reeling from his father, Thomas’ (Tom Hanks) death.
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Contraband
01/16/2012
Indisputably Hollywood’s Teflon man, Mark Wahlberg continues to walk a fine line between wholesale laughing stock and national treasure, his signature turn as a principled, put upon, blue collar Joe with street smarts having by now placed him on speed dial for every producer with middle-of-the-road genre picture desperately seeking a hero. Virtually unknown outside the festival circuit Icelandic actor/director Baltasar Kormakur – who played Walhberg’s role in the Icelandic original on which this is based – isn’t entirely out of his depth with this much more showy transatlantic translation, but struggles to break free of his arthouse tendencies.
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