Fan reactions might be mixed, but fondness for Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth increases with each viewing.
Michael Caine
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The stakes are high in Christopher Nolan’s universe. If you don’t leave the theater feeling a bit dazed, then the man hasn’t done his job.
The stakes are high in Christopher Nolan’s universe. If you don’t leave the theater feeling a bit dazed, then the man hasn’t done his job.
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island / Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island
Young Sean (Josh Hutcherson, The Hunger Games) is the only returning cast member from 2008’s Journey to the Center of the Earth, meaning dad Brendan Fraser is nowhere to be found, replaced here by Fast Five‘s Dwayne Johnson as stepdad Hank. (That’s called trading up.) Wasting no time, the movie has Sean and Hank crack […]
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Ribald, not ‘Rotten’
The musical “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” now at the Pollard Theatre, includes a song titled “Oklahoma?,” sung by a character named Jolene Oakes, an oil heiress in a mink coat and miniskirt (played by the really funny Cory King), and it’s a humdinger. Maybe someone will start a petition to make it the state song. I’d […]