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In 2007, writer Aaron Sorkin’s The Farnsworth Invention opened on Broadway. The play was a classic 20th century American tale of ambition, innovation and fortitude centered on arguably the most influential invention of the 20th century, television. [...]

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Can something be both great and completely pointless? Because Let Me In is. The remake of the exceptional 2008 Nordic import Let the Right One In is redundant and unnecessary. But it isn’t bad. Far from it. [...]

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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, which borrows its title from a line in the first film, joins The Godfather: Part II, Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back as one of the [...]

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Never Let Me Go, based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, has more in common with The Matrix, Children of Men and Logan’s Run than the author’s other celebrated adaptation, The Remains of the Day, though you’d never know it if you watched the film with the volume turned down. Never Let Me Go is [...]

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Zack Snyder, best known for such hyper-violent fare as 300 and Watchmen, may be the last person you’d expect to helm an adaptation of a popular series of kid’s books (Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of [...]

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The rehabilitation of Ben Affleck is complete. His penance has been accepted. The star of Gigli, Daredevil and Pearl Harbor has now earned audiences’ respect again (to say nothing of finally being worthy of wife Jennifer Garner). After a period of disastrous films, and a career trajectory in a nosedive, the Oscar winner wowed everyone [...]

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Back in the days of pre-digital photography, it was not at all unusual for professional photographers to shoot half a dozen rolls of film with the implicit understanding that only one, or possibly two, images would survive the cut and be worth the effort. Likewise, every once in a great while, a high school comedy [...]

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After the last couple of decades Rob Reiner’s had, it’s no surprise he’s begun mining the material that solidified him as a director of note in the first place, particularly 1986’s Stand by Me, about four boys’ [...]

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Believe it or not, the character of Machete was not invented as a fake commercial in 2007’s Grindhouse, though that was the first time he showed his face to the world. Director Robert Rodriguez conceived of using [...]

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It’s about time someone made a romantic comedy about long distance relationships. The set-up is ripe with both comic and dramatic possibilities, dueling polarities that Going the Distance mines equally. This leads to a bit of [...]

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