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Reel Critics: 'Softly' could be harder
Writer-director Andrew Dominik created a hard-boiled gangster movie in "Killing Them Softly." It owes much to the work of the Coen Brothers and Quentin Tarantino. It's filled with constant tension offset by the sort of cerebral dialogue and strange...
Tags: Theft, Killing Them Softly (movie), Ray Liotta, Ethan Coen, Fargo (movie)
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'Django Unchained' review: Tarantino could do this all day
**1/2 (out of four) I couldn’t listen to writer-director Quentin Tarantino talk for an especially long time, but the guy’s got a remarkable knack for dialogue. His characters, and the highly cinematic scenes he creates for them, command the...
Tags: Django Unchained (movie), Inglourious Basterds (movie), World War II (1939-1945), Wes Anderson, Christoph Waltz
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50 Ways Marilyn Monroe Has Been Kept Alive For 50 Years
ReutersAug 03 (TheWrap.com) - There's a moment at the end of the promo reel for "Love, Marilyn," an upcoming Marilyn Monroe documentary that will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, when Uma Thurman, speaking in words that were written by Monroe, almost...Tags: Laurence Olivier, Barbie (fictional character), Documentary (genre), Mattel Inc., Authors
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'Seven Psychopaths' is mayhem with a moral core, writer hopes
Opening next Friday, "Seven Psychopaths" has a title promising a certain amount of spilled blood and bad behavior, and the writer-director Martin McDonagh delivers on the promise. McDonagh notes, however, that his film contains "more dialogue in the midst...
Tags: The Guard (movie), Action (Movie Genre), Movies, Republic of Ireland, Inglourious Basterds (movie)
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Southern California Close-Ups: West Hollywood, Fairfax, Wilshire, Koreatown
First published on Oct. 30, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. Set an out-of-towner loose to roam the Los Angeles area between West Hollywood and Koreatown, and what can you expect? A food-truck overdose, perhaps. Or the bold suggestion that we...
Tags: Bonnie Raitt, Immigration, Halloween, Carole King, Religion and Belief
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Travolta on Travolta
'Saturday Night Fever' (1977) Travolta earned his first Oscar nomination — and proved he was more than Vinnie Barbarino on TV's "Welcome Back, Kotter" — as the Brooklyn teenager who becomes a big man on the disco dance floor. "It was a...Tags: Grease (movie), Debra Winger, Movies, Saturday Night Fever (movie), Literature
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John Travolta shares memories of 'Hairspray,' 'Pulp Fiction' and other films
A slimmed-down Edna Turnblad shared the stage with her creator, John Waters, last night, much to the delight of scores of star-crazed fans. Well, it wasn't exactly Edna, the zaftig stage mom from Waters' "Hairspray," who took to the stage at the Maryland...
Tags: John Travolta, Grease (movie), Film Festivals, Entertainment Events, Movies
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When it comes to Baltimore, Travolta does it his way
John Travolta knew what he wanted to do with the role of Edna Turnblad, the zaftig housewife at the center of "Hairspray." The movie's producers, however, weren't so sure. Especially when he insisted on using a Bawlamer accent. "I got fought on it, by...
Tags: John Travolta, Movies, Grease (movie), Entertainment Events, Film Festivals
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Reel Critics: 'Argo' holds audience hostage
It's a mark of great film-making when the retelling of history, with a known outcome, seizes us with suspense. Such is the case with "Argo," which had my heart racing within the first five minutes thanks to Ben Affleck's smart direction. It opens with...
Tags: U.S. Embassy, The Big Lebowski (movie), Movies, Argo (movie), Genres
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Film review: 'Psychopaths' twists and turns upon itself
If it's easy to curse Quentin Tarantino for all the bad-to-awful imitations he's inspired, then it's only fair to grant him a degree of absolution for the occasional good-to-brilliant imitation. Case in point: Martin McDonagh's hilarious new "Seven...
Tags: Movies, Charlie Kaufman, Entertainment, Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson
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Travolta, Waters to appear on stage together in Baltimore
Oscar-nominated actor John Travolta will sit down for a public conversation with John Waters at Baltimore's Maryland Institute College of Art. The man who created Edna Turnblad and the actor who brought the zaftig housewife of "Hairspray" to full-...Tags: Film Festivals, Grease (movie), Adam Shankman, Celebrities, Halle Berry
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A chat with Chabon
Michael Chabon's best-selling new novel, “Telegraph Avenue,” is set in and around Brokeland Records, a used-vinyl record store on the border between Oakland and Berkeley, Calif., where Chabon has lived since the late 1990s. The story follows...
Tags: Scott Rudin, Entertainment Events, Miles Davis, Genres, George Benson
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