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Mini-reviews

OK, I went a little hog wild this weekend and saw not one but two movies. Don’t worry, I didn’t take the whole weekend off or anything. I know, I owe you a (choose one): redrafted chapter; draft proposal; short article; new website; check; grade. So, three mini-reviews, two of movies, one of a preview. […]
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Good Night, and Good Luck.

Good Night and Good Luck is a good movie. Most people won’t go to see it, because it is in black and white. They will miss a charmingly shot and paced film — kudos to George Clooney as director. They will also miss, in my opinion, an outstanding piece of acting by David Strathairn as […]
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l’homme Danny

Rotten tomatoes counts Jet Li’s new Unleashed as a mixed bag. I thought it was charming. No, it doesn’t rank anywhere near the bittersweet Leon or Femme Nikita, but Li is great in his dramatic scenes and amazing in the fight scenes; especially a sequence in very tight quarters that highlights the talents of the […]
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Sahara

(Spoilers–but not major ones.) Indiana Jones meets James Bond. Sahara isn’t nearly as bad as its trailer makes it out to be, but it requires a silly amount of suspension of disbelief, and some of those things would have been easy to fix. Take for example two men racing across the desert on an improvised […]
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