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The story of Harvey Milk is well known and has been told on film before – most notably in the Oscar-winning documentary The Times of Harvey Milk. A studio feature
The story of Harvey Milk is well known and has been told on film before – most notably in the Oscar-winning documentary The Times of Harvey Milk. A studio feature
Jonathan Demme’s movies are at their best when they capture the messiness of ordinary life. Rachel Getting Married succeeds brilliantly in doing just that. This is the best movie Demme
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Fanboys can be seen as a guilty pleasure movie. It has limited appeal and can’t be defended on any aesthetic grounds but it amused me in parts. Maybe because I
David O. Russell’s Three Kings is an irreverent war comedy like Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H*. It is also a sophisticated political farce that takes an openly critical view of American foreign
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Having seen The Dark Knight in the theater and thinking highly of it, I wanted to go back and watch it again on DVD to see if the movie held
This has been a golden era for documentary filmmaking. In the past twenty years we have seen one superb movie after another like Roger & Me, Hearts of Darkness, Hoop
In 1997, James Cameron’s “Titanic” was released after a great deal of publicity. There were delays over the release date and it went way over budget. As it turned out
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India is the second most populous country in the world, but relatively new to the modern way of life. Despite the continued emergence of industrial growth and an embrace of
Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” has so much startling audacity that it renders most contemporary movies lifeless by comparison. Even the best movies of recent years don’t have
When Richard Nixon resigned as President of the United States he did so to avoid impeachment or having to stand trial for corruption and obstruction of justice charges. Many people