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Written by Linda December 02, 2008
The opening sequence of Assault on Precinct 13 is an assault on the senses. Let me say this: The handheld camera with grainy and contrasty cinematography, combined with MTV-style editing...
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Written by Linda December 02, 2008
Hollywood needs to be told that computer geeks very rarely look like Sandra Bullock (The Net), Ryan Phillippe (AntiTrust), or Angelina Jolie (Hackers). If these people worked in marketing, I...
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Written by Linda December 02, 2008
Poor Linda Fiorentino will never live down The Last Seduction. Hollywood loves to pigeonhole actresses: the second they have a breakthrough role, they may as well accept that they'll be...
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Written by Linda December 02, 2008
In the jargon of East Germany's Stasi police (the secret police), a "legend" was a false identity, created for people who needed to "disappear" into society. During the Cold War,...
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Written by Linda November 30, 2008
Few films have made me feel physically ill by the closing credits—The Silence of the Lambs and Monster are a couple that have that distinction. Now I can add The...
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Written by Linda November 30, 2008
Poland has a great cinematic tradition, so even so-so films like Amok are worth seeing, just to see the spin a Polish filmmaker might put on a story that is,...
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Written by Linda November 29, 2008
There is a moment where the audience figures out exactly what is going on in Eagle Eye, a thriller that goes not many interesting places, but goes there FAST. About...
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Written by Linda November 29, 2008
Transsiberian combines two things that rock my socks off: cold, wintery climes (in this case, Russia's Siberia) and trains (woo-woo!). There hasn't been a memorable train movie that I can...
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Written by Linda October 18, 2008
Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd is a cross between a bloated failure and a fascinating masterpiece. I'm not sure what went wrong when it was released (it could be...
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Written by Linda October 13, 2008
If you had to update and translate Rear Window for a 21st century teen audience, you could do a lot worse than Disturbia.
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