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Former Disney stars are making ‘Mickey’ proud

by Joseph Dionisio [Newsday (MCT)]

[26.Oct.07] :. It was called “The All New Mickey Mouse Club,” but a better title might have been Tomorrowland. During its 1989-96 run, the Disney Channel variety series delivered a major peek into...

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Ryan Gosling’s latest onscreen love is a real doll

by John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)]

[19.Oct.07] :. LOS ANGELES—Having reinvented the drug addict in “Half Nelson” and then parried with Anthony Hopkins in “Fracture,” Ryan Gosling arrived on the set of “Lars and...

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Lars and the Real Girl

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Oct.07] :. This is the reductive conceit of Lars and the Real Girl, Lars' representative incongruity: he's so unlike everyone else that he becomes their cause and sign of sanity.

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Ryan’s reel life: In his quietness, Gosling makes noise

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[26.Apr.07] :. Ryan Gosling has his first Oscar nomination under his belt (for “Half Nelson"), and a very hot thriller now in theaters. But there was a time, long before “Fracture,” before his...

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Fracture (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Apr.07] :. Part police procedural, part courtroom hijinks, and part cunning murder plot, Gregory Hoblit's new movie brings the usual canards.

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Anthony Hopkins takes another villainous turn in ‘Fracture’

by Barry Koltnow [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[20.Apr.07] :. Hopkins: "When I tell people that I just learn my lines and that's all there is to it, my wife thinks that I'm putting down the craft of acting."

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‘Fracture’: Cunning, Arrogant, Sinister

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[20.Apr.07] :. Ted is all wit, charm and ruthlessness. He is Hannibal Lecter without the menu, a creep we can love.

 

Stay (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Oct.05] :. Often evocative, sometimes audacious, and finally undone by an inelegant close, Stay is less interested in story than in impressions.

 

The United States of Leland (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Sep.04] :. Leland meets a teacher who's been tending to young hard cases for too long.

 

The United States of Leland (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Apr.04] :. Leland will come to be instructive and redemptive for others, just as he has tried to find instruction and redemption in others.

 

The Believer (2001)

by Jennifer D. Wesley

[23.Jun.03] :. The film's about the human impetus toward contradiction, about our need to exercise those contradictions, to live them.

 

Murder by Numbers (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.Apr.02] :. 'Murder by Numbers' isn't about solving the case; it's about solving Cassie (Sandra Bullock).

 
 
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