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Friday, December 21 2007

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

How hilarious, you can imagine someone pitching, the word "Cox," repeated over and over, makes for all sorts of double entendres.


Friday, September 28 2007

NUMB3RS

NUMB3RS combines two of television's most staply of staples, crime-fighting and family drama.


Monday, April 16 2007

Bobby (2006)

As reporter Warren Wilson remembers, "That would have been less of an impact on me, had I been shot [as he nearly was], than Kennedy being killed, stopped, in a moment in America's history, when we needed him and his advocacy more than ever before."


Monday, January 31 2005

Numb3rs

Though we see Charlie scribbling furiously on his chalkboard and mathematical equations float across the screen periodically, no one explains what all those numbers and letters and formulas mean.


Monday, October 6 2003

Lyon’s Den

Trades on the image of D.C. as a shadow-realm, characterized by backroom dealings and shifting loyalties.


Thursday, October 31 2002

The Santa Clause 2 (2002)

Given that it's a generically family/holiday film, The Santa Clause 2 has nothing new to say about anything.


Sunday, January 1 1995

Sidewalks of New York (2001)

PULL.


The Mexican (2001)

'The Mexican' follows the turbulent near-end of the relationship between hapless Mafia gopher Jerry Welbach (Brad) and his obsessive, psycho-babbling girlfriend Samantha Barzel (Julia), who reduces everything in her life to 'blame-shifting' and others' inability to express their emotions.


The Mexican (2001)

On its good-looking surface (being well-composed and carefully lit), 'The Mexican' is a love story.


The Mexican (2001)

On its good-looking surface (being well-composed and carefully lit), 'The Mexican' is a love story.


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