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'The Skeleton Key'
![With her light yellow hair, clear eyes and purposeful stride, Kate Hudson cuts through the boggy gloom of "The Skeleton Key" like a beam of reason. But even she is no match for the lugubrious vegetation of the Louisiana bayou outside New Orleans, which fairly quivers with dread and swampy portent. Mind you, there's also the hoodoo, which is described as a sort of DIY voodoo and is clearly something no rationalist Yankee will be able to resist. Toss in a remote, crumbling antebellum mansion full of religious iconography, a creepy attic, a permanently locked door and an all-access skeleton key and, well, I don't have to tell <I>you</I>.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2005-08/18925244.jpg "With her light yellow hair, clear eyes and purposeful stride, Kate Hudson cuts through the boggy gloom of "The Skeleton Key\" like a beam of reason. But even she is no match for the lugubrious vegetation of the Louisiana bayou outside New Orleans, which fairly quivers with dread and swampy portent. Mind you, there's also the hoodoo, which is described as a sort of DIY voodoo and is clearly something no rationalist Yankee will be able to resist. Toss in a remote, crumbling antebellum mansion full of religious iconography, a creepy attic, a permanently locked door and an all-access skeleton key and, well, I don't have to tell <I>you</I>.")
Times Staff WriterWith her light yellow hair, clear eyes and purposeful stride, Kate Hudson cuts through the boggy gloom of "The Skeleton Key" like a beam of reason. But even she is no match for the lugubrious vegetation of the Louisiana bayou outside New Orleans, which...Tags: Movies, Death, Thriller (genre), Kate Hudson, New Orleans
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'Valiant'
Times Staff WriterI'm pretty sure that the point of computer-generated animation is not to make the audience feel as though it's been trapped inside a large plastic box for an hour and a half, but given how often I stumble out of theaters gasping for air lately, it seems...Tags: Movies, Gaming, Ewan McGregor, England, Gary Chapman
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Digital Character Gollum Propels `Rings' To Head Of Class
The Hartford CourantRichard Taylor, one of the special-effects masterminds behind "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," has a fistful of Oscars and the admiration of any computer user who has painted a pixel. He also has a heck of an encore in "The Lord of the...Tags: Peter Jackson, Movies, Celebrities, Upper East Side, Gaming
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Putting a human face on 'It'
Times Staff WritersAfter a recent Beverly Hills screening of "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences walked out of the three-hour epic buzzing about "him." Not actor Viggo Mortensen, who plays the hunky, sword-...Tags: Peter Jackson, Viggo Mortensen, Celebrities, Movies, San Diego (San Diego, California)
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'Dogville'
!["Without publicity," that great ringmaster P.T. Barnum once said, "a terrible thing happens: nothing!" It's a lesson that has never been lost on one of Barnum's spiritual sons, the fitfully brilliant Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier. Part carny, part genius, Von Trier has been manufacturing minor tempests for years, most recently with his latest scandal, "Dogville." A movie in which Nicole Kidman gets kicked around by Mr. and Mrs. USA and David Bowie sings about "young Americans" over photographs of brutalized human refuse, the three-hour opus was the excited, at times bitter talk of last year's Cannes film festival.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-03/11965371.jpg ""Without publicity,\" that great ringmaster P.T. Barnum once said, \"a terrible thing happens: nothing!\" It's a lesson that has never been lost on one of Barnum's spiritual sons, the fitfully brilliant Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier. Part carny, part genius, Von Trier has been manufacturing minor tempests for years, most recently with his latest scandal, \"Dogville.\" A movie in which Nicole Kidman gets kicked around by Mr. and Mrs. USA and David Bowie sings about \"young Americans\" over photographs of brutalized human refuse, the three-hour opus was the excited, at times bitter talk of last year's Cannes film festival.")
Times Staff Writer"Without publicity," that great ringmaster P.T. Barnum once said, "a terrible thing happens: nothing!" It's a lesson that has never been lost on one of Barnum's spiritual sons, the fitfully brilliant Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier. Part carny, part...Tags: Janet Jackson, Movies, Film Festivals, Nicole Kidman, Breast
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'Love and Death on Long Island'
Times Film CriticAs the determined enemy of all things modern, British cult novelist and "erstwhile fogy" Giles De'Ath (it's pronounced "day-ath," thank you very much) is not a person one expects to find in a movie theater. In fact, if he hadn't accidentally locked...Tags: Jason Priestley, Comedy (genre), Movies, Celebrities, Death
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'Hellboy'
![After a decade vanquishing evil inside the panels of a comic book, the big red fighting machine known as Hellboy has taken a much-anticipated leap onto the big screen. Ushered into the world with painstaking detail and the affectionate ministrations of director Guillermo del Toro, the movie version of Mike Mignola's superhero weighs in as an enjoyable if somewhat neutered defender of the free world. Make no mistake: Hellboy still has a hide as hard-boiled as Lee Marvin in "The Dirty Dozen," but now he's also wearing a smile.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-04/12059439.jpg "After a decade vanquishing evil inside the panels of a comic book, the big red fighting machine known as Hellboy has taken a much-anticipated leap onto the big screen. Ushered into the world with painstaking detail and the affectionate ministrations of director Guillermo del Toro, the movie version of Mike Mignola's superhero weighs in as an enjoyable if somewhat neutered defender of the free world. Make no mistake: Hellboy still has a hide as hard-boiled as Lee Marvin in "The Dirty Dozen,\" but now he's also wearing a smile.")
Times Staff WriterAfter a decade vanquishing evil inside the panels of a comic book, the big red fighting machine known as Hellboy has taken a much-anticipated leap onto the big screen. Ushered into the world with painstaking detail and the affectionate ministrations of...Tags: U.S. Military, Selma Blair, Movies, Lee Marvin, Wars and Interventions
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Contact
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday July 11, 1997 Whatever's Out There has always fascinated people Down Here, especially movie people. But these days, instead of watching the skies (as those 1950s films encouraged everyone to do), people are listening to them. "Contact"...Tags: Radio Industry, David Morse, Movies, James Woods, Science
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All the Little Animals
FOR THE TIMESFriday September 3, 1999 So many movies require their 20-something heroes to be super-aggressive that it seems churlish to jump all over "All the Little Animals," whose protagonist is a brain-damaged 24-year-old man-child whose soft, sweet...Tags: Movies, Animals, Death, Christian Bale, Bernardo Bertolucci
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Lost Souls
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday October 13, 2000 "Lost Souls" is lost all right, a dreary tale of supernatural horror featuring Winona Ryder doing battle with Satan. Like her most recent previous film, "Autumn in New York," an old-fashioned tear-jerker that opened sans...Tags: Crimes, Death, Schindler's List (movie), Criminals, Winona Ryder
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'Captain Corelli's Mandolin'
Times Film CriticBy the time "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" has sounded its last note, pesky questions leap to mind like pesky fish in a wine-dark sea. Who can say, for instance: * why "Corelli's Mandolin," a title good enough to make the original Louis de Bernieres...Tags: Movies, Nicolas Cage, Drama (genre), David Morrissey, Book
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'Alien' (1979)
![Of all the monsters to go bump in the endless night of the movies, few have been as wonderfully frightening as the creature from "Alien." Designed by the Swiss artist H.R. Giger and first unleashed by director Ridley Scott in 1979, the extraterrestrial with the long, hard skull and lethal oral protuberance injected a distinctly adult vibe and shivery sense of horror into the genre. Two years after George Lucas' "Star Wars" made blockbuster history with gee-whiz heroics, Scott thrust science fiction back into the foreboding dark.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2003-10/9999359.jpg "Of all the monsters to go bump in the endless night of the movies, few have been as wonderfully frightening as the creature from "Alien.\" Designed by the Swiss artist H.R. Giger and first unleashed by director Ridley Scott in 1979, the extraterrestrial with the long, hard skull and lethal oral protuberance injected a distinctly adult vibe and shivery sense of horror into the genre. Two years after George Lucas' \"Star Wars\" made blockbuster history with gee-whiz heroics, Scott thrust science fiction back into the foreboding dark.")
Times Staff WriterOf all the monsters to go bump in the endless night of the movies, few have been as wonderfully frightening as the creature from "Alien." Designed by the Swiss artist H.R. Giger and first unleashed by director Ridley Scott in 1979, the extraterrestrial...Tags: Movies, Monsters (legendary creatures), Star Wars (movie), Gaming, Alien (movie)
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