Di Yerbury, the retiring vice chancellor of Australia’s Macquarie University, is embroiled in a dispute with her successor over her spending habits, leading the successor to seize 1,000 pieces of art that Yerbury tried to take with her as she left. She has asserted that many of the works she had on display are her […]
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Perfect Stranger
bisi) seeks incriminating e-mails by hacking into Hill’s computer. The movie ladles on increasingly ludicrous plot and backstory. While it all leads to a preposterous climax, director James Foley deserves some credit for ratcheting up the tension as Rowena edges closer to Hill. R “?Phil Bacharach View trailer
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Dewey Jackson – Live at the Barrel
Delmark Dewey Jackson (1900-1966), a trumpet player and contemporary of Louis Armstrong, specialized in the hot, swinging, New Orleans-style jazz of the Twenties and Thirties that Armstrong made famous. Though Jackson tried the New York scene, then the pinnacle of the jazz world, he eventually opted to return back home to St. Louis. It was […]
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
Reviewers’ grade: D An animated movie about talking food items, robots and weird space creatures shouldn’t be this boring, but the “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” doesn’t work on the screen remotely as well as it does on cable television. The film follows the adventures of Frylock, Master Shake and their little- pile-of-meat cohort, Meatwad, as […]
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The Reaping
Reviewers’ grade: CHilary Swank takes a break from winning Oscars to star in this adequately creepy tale of a small Louisiana backwater town that is visited by the 10 plagues of the Old Testament. Working as a religious mythbuster, Swank believes that all miracles can be explained away by science until frogs start dying like […]
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Grindhouse
tino, we find two groups of female friends who run into “? literally “? homicidal road maniac Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell), who chases them with his skull-emblazoned kill-car. Sandwiched between the movies are four faux trailers (with special guest directors) that steal the show. If you long for senseless gore and stomach-churning car chases, go […]
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Are We Done Yet?
If you can’t say something nice about something, my mother always taught me, don’t say anything at all. Bearing that in mind, let me just say that “Are We Done Yet?” could be much worse. A loose remake of 1948’s “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House” and a sequel to 2005’s best-forgotten “Are We […]
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The Namesake
Reviewers’ grade: A-In chronicling two generations of an Indian American family, “The Namesake” mines the divide between cultural identity and assimilation. Our story begins in 1977 with the arranged Indian marriage of scholarly Ashoke Ganguli (Irfan Khan) and beautiful Ashima (Tabu). They move to New York, struggling with this strange new world and raising two […]
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Peaceful Warrior
Reviewer’s grade: C- Victor Salva’s “Peaceful Warrior” is a predictable, often cheesy example of the film genre we can call “sports inspirational,” with Zen master as coach. Calling to mind films like “The Karate Kid,” TV shows like “Kung Fu” and books like “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Salva’s heavily meaningful film focuses […]
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Blades of Glory
STRONG>BWill Ferrell and Jon Heder played two disgraced figure skaters who have been banned from the sport for life. When they realize that they are banned as singles skaters only, the pair makes a joint comeback as the world’s first all-male doubles team. And that’s the part of the movie that actually makes a little sense. Most […]