Review: ‘The Duchess’
Georgiana (Keira Knightley), the Duchess of Devonshire, is reported to have been a progressive woman during her lifetime. The personal …
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Dead Men
Chances are audiences will recog nize something familiar in Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais). He’s a sad sack, a man with …
Breaking The Silence
The new Ben Stiller movie Tropic Thunder arrived with advance buzz about the potentially off-putting use of blackface by Robert …
Several New DVDs Beg The Question: What Makes a Movie Star?
Since I started teaching film feature and review courses as an adjunct two years ago, first at Xavier University and …
Review: ‘Hancock’
There’s something genuinely redundant about casting Will Smith as a superhero in a release on the Fourth of July. Much …
Review: ‘Wanted’
Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) might seem more than vaguely familiar to both film and comic book fans. Wesley is a …
A Marvelous Summer
Back in the day, I avidly read comic books. I was the kid who earned an allowance primarily so that …
The Bette Davis Collection (20th Century Fox)
1950-1965, Unrated The Bette Davis Collection opens with a two-disc Cinema Classics Collection edition of All About Eve that catches …
Tell Me You Love Me (HBO)
2007, Not Rated The first season of the HBO series Tell Me You Love Me examines the stories of three …
Review: ‘CJ7’
As writer, director, producer and star, Stephen Chow wears more hats at one time than most players in the movie …
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