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Jun.20.2012
(Originally posted at Huffington Post Entertainment.) They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but that is completely wrong. Adaptation is the sincerest form of flattery. One of the great joys of my career was getting to know Ray Bradbury, who recently passed away at 91. The first time...
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Dec.29.2011
1. Senna (dir. Asif Kapadia) Thanks to more than 15,000 hours of archival footage, expertly edited, this thrilling and complex doc on three-time Formula One driving champion Ayrton Senna has the narrative drive of a scripted feature. A legend in his native Brazil, we see how Senna's religious...
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Aug.12.2011
(Originally posted at HuffPost Entertainment, June 30, 2011.) Midnight In Paris, Woody Allen's latest movie, romanticizes the City of Light to the point of nostalgia. This is not the Paris of the 3rd millennium, but the Paris of every writer's dream. Paris is a gem. The film opens with perfect...
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Jul.23.2011
American Priorities. We are a half step away from sitting on the short bus of countries. Today, Gen. John Shalikashvili passed away. Who is this guy, America wonders? Did he have goddesses? Did he get caught with a hooker in his car? Did he slap a police officer? Did he scream something anti...
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Dec.30.2010
When the first accident happened on Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, it was the big snicker of people in theater. A Sixty-Five Million dollar production and one of the leads gets hurt during the previews and everyone in the audience twittering about it during the show (because that is what live...
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Feb.19.2009
The Fall-Winter of 2008-2009 in American history will be remembered for three things: who won the presidential election, who won the Super Bowl and... what the hell is going on with Joaquin Phoenix?! Dostoyevsky, the 19th century Russian novelist who mercilessly plumbed the depths and shallows of...