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Summer Movie Preview
![It has been suggested that summer has already begun at the cineplexes, with the huge opening for ``The Scorpion King." Whether The Rock has legs as well as arms will be seen. But well before Memorial Day, the traditional start of summer, the long season for big movies surely commences on Friday with the arrival of ``Spider-Man."](http://www.courant.com/media/thumbnails/story/2002-04/2896045.jpg "It has been suggested that summer has already begun at the cineplexes, with the huge opening for ``The Scorpion King." Whether The Rock has legs as well as arms will be seen. But well before Memorial Day, the traditional start of summer, the long season for big movies surely commences on Friday with the arrival of ``Spider-Man.\"")
Courant film CriticIt has been suggested that summer has already begun at the cineplexes, with the huge opening for ``The Scorpion King." Whether The Rock has legs as well as arms will be seen. But well before Memorial Day, the traditional start of summer, the long season...Tags: Politics, Brent Spiner, Bruce Campbell, England, Samuel L. Jackson
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'Welcome to Collinwood'
Times Staff WriterIn the genial, low-wattage comedy "Welcome to Collinwood," a handful of petty thieves and idlers try to break into a neighborhood jewelry store thinking they've hit the criminal big time. Since that more or less describes what happens, or at least the...Tags: Crimes, George Clooney, Madonna, Steven Soderbergh, William H. Macy
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'Crash'
![I'm not sure the best way to kick off a movie that wants to expose the dark heart of the <I>true </I>Los Angeles is to contrast it with "real cities" where "people walk, you brush past people, people bump into you," but that's what writer-director Paul Haggis does in the first few moments of "Crash," a grim, histrionic experiment in vehicular metaphor slaughter.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-01/17446436.jpg "I'm not sure the best way to kick off a movie that wants to expose the dark heart of the <I>true </I>Los Angeles is to contrast it with "real cities\" where \"people walk, you brush past people, people bump into you,\" but that's what writer-director Paul Haggis does in the first few moments of \"Crash,\" a grim, histrionic experiment in vehicular metaphor slaughter.")
Times Staff WriterI'm not sure the best way to kick off a movie that wants to expose the dark heart of the true Los Angeles is to contrast it with "real cities" where "people walk, you brush past people, people bump into you," but that's what writer-director Paul Haggis...Tags: Politics, Crimes, African Americans, Justice and Rights, Los Angeles
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'Breakin' All the Rules'
![Romantic comedies used to have something big at stake besides the romance. With Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, for instance, there was a dinosaur bone or a yacht. With Doris Day and Rock Hudson, it was an advertising account. Lately, it seems as though every garden-variety "date movie," especially those with African American leads, can't think about anything beyond the dynamics of the relationship game itself, a contest of wills involving "playuhs" and whoever's in their crosshairs.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-05/12620129.jpg "Romantic comedies used to have something big at stake besides the romance. With Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, for instance, there was a dinosaur bone or a yacht. With Doris Day and Rock Hudson, it was an advertising account. Lately, it seems as though every garden-variety "date movie,\" especially those with African American leads, can't think about anything beyond the dynamics of the relationship game itself, a contest of wills involving \"playuhs\" and whoever's in their crosshairs.")
NewsdayRomantic comedies used to have something big at stake besides the romance. With Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, for instance, there was a dinosaur bone or a yacht. With Doris Day and Rock Hudson, it was an advertising account. Lately, it seems as though...Tags: Jamie Foxx, Entertainment, Doris Day, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn
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Fall Movie Preview
The Hartford CourantBetween the end of summer and the edge of winter and the holiday season, the movies shrink. The budgets are lower; the weekend totals dip. As young acolytes await the second coming of Harry Potter on Nov. 15 and older fans count the days until Pierce...Tags: Politics, Samuel L. Jackson, England, Guy Ritchie, Curtis Hanson
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'Taxi'
!["Taxi" stars Queen Latifah and Jimmy Fallon as a cabbie who can drive and a cop who can't. Fatefully, Belle Williams (Latifah) and Andy Washburn (Fallon) cross paths as Belle embarks on her maiden taxi voyage in a tricked-out Crown Victoria and Washburn hails her en route to a bank robbery. "You took a cab to a bank robbery?" his hot lieutenant, Marta Robbins (Jennifer Esposito), asks later in dismay, bad guys still at large in a gleaming Beemer. It's a weird question, considering she's just divested Washburn of his license. But, by then, other, more pressing questions have cropped up. Like, who gave the guy a license in the first place? And, who green-lighted this movie? And, what would happen if I just closed my eyes for just, like, a second?](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-10/14533651.jpg ""Taxi\" stars Queen Latifah and Jimmy Fallon as a cabbie who can drive and a cop who can't. Fatefully, Belle Williams (Latifah) and Andy Washburn (Fallon) cross paths as Belle embarks on her maiden taxi voyage in a tricked-out Crown Victoria and Washburn hails her en route to a bank robbery. \"You took a cab to a bank robbery?\" his hot lieutenant, Marta Robbins (Jennifer Esposito), asks later in dismay, bad guys still at large in a gleaming Beemer. It's a weird question, considering she's just divested Washburn of his license. But, by then, other, more pressing questions have cropped up. Like, who gave the guy a license in the first place? And, who green-lighted this movie? And, what would happen if I just closed my eyes for just, like, a second?")
Times Staff Writer"Taxi" stars Queen Latifah and Jimmy Fallon as a cabbie who can drive and a cop who can't. Fatefully, Belle Williams (Latifah) and Andy Washburn (Fallon) cross paths as Belle embarks on her maiden taxi voyage in a tricked-out Crown Victoria and Washburn...Tags: Crimes, BMW, Vehicles, Luc Besson, Ford
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'The Master of Disguise'
TIMES STAFF WRITER"The Master of Disguise" sounds as if it should be a natural for Dana Carvey, who has created a gallery of hilarious characters and impersonations on "Saturday Night Live" and elsewhere. But even his protean talent can't dent this ponderously unfunny...Tags: Superman (fictional character), Brent Spiner, Dining and Drinking, Restaurants, Little Italy (Manhattan, New York)
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Strong Lead Performances Lift Suspenseful 'Don't Say a Word'
TIMES STAFF WRITER"Don't Say a Word" is a sleek, engrossing suspense thriller starring Michael Douglas as a top Manhattan psychiatrist who has everything: a beautiful wife (Famke Janssen), an adorable daughter (Skye McCole Bartusiak) and a spacious apartment in the...Tags: Crimes, Sean Bean, New York City Police Department, Michael Douglas, Hospitals and Clinics
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