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Indiana Jones: The Adventure Collection

by Chris Barsanti

[27.May.08] :. There should be room in our collective imagination for a hero who makes mistakes, lots of them, and still saves the day -- these are films that should be owned.

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Indiana Jones paved the road for dumb box-office thrill rides

by Carrie Rickey [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[20.May.08] :. Largely by cracking jokes and his bullwhip, Indiana Jones snared American hearts in the 1980s. Ever since, the indefatigable finder of incomparable objects in improbable places has continued to...

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Harrison Ford returns to the real ‘let’s-pretend’ job that propelled his career

by Michael Phillips [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[19.May.08] :. When Harrison Ford attended Wisconsin’s Ripon College, he drifted over to the theater department from the philosophy department and stuffed a pillow under his shirt to play Mr. Antrobus in...

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After 20 years, Harrison Ford returns to his signature role: Indiana Jones

by Gene Seymour [Newsday (MCT)]

[19.May.08] :. With most of our action movie icons, there are easily identifiable trademarks: John Wayne’s pigeon-toed swagger and slow-rolling drawl; Humphrey Bogart’s facial twitches and muted...

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Firewall (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Feb.06] :. Is there any role that Mary Lynn Rajskub can't make strange? I mean, delightfully and eloquently strange?"

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Witness: Special Collector’s Edition (1985)

by Nikki Tranter

[14.Sep.05] :. Bemused at times, Detective John Book is nonetheless captivated by the Amish community's simplicity, its decency, and its ability to thrive despite its antiquities.

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Hollywood Homicide (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Oct.03] :. My intention was to make a picture that on one level was a genre movie, summer movie, kind of a cop movie, whatever that genre is, and at the same time, to serve different gods.

 

Hollywood Homicide (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Jun.03] :. Short version: Joe's hardheaded and eats cheeseburgers, K.C.'s into fluidity and bean sprouts.

 

K-19 (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Jul.02] :. For all its efforts to offer other views, 'K-19' is an all too average U.S. war movie.

 

What Lies Beneath (2000)

by Renee Scolaro Rathke

CAUTION: This review contains spoilers, although frankly, it doesn’t reveal much more information than the film’s trailer does. “Take Me Away!” The most...

 
 
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