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Movie review: ‘My Dog Tulip’ rhapsodizes on the earthy reality of pet love
As a general rule, movies about dogs are marked by certain tried-and-true conventions – cuddly cuteness, frisky mischief, aching sentimentality and an underlying anthropomorphism that ascribes to...
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DVD review: ‘Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood’
Constructing a comprehensive documentary history of Hollywood – from the larger-than-life moguls who molded the movie industry into a culture-changing force to the film stars who became its glamorous,...
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David ‘Forty Takes’ Fincher seeks perfection from his actors
BY DENNIS KING NEW YORK – Director David Fincher is notorious among actors as a demanding, hard-driving perfectionist. Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig For actors who’ve worked with him on such films as...
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Movie review: Dire doings of ‘Dragon Tattoo’ filtered through American lens
The stark, chilly 2009 Swedish screen adaptation of the late Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and its two follow-up films utterly belonged to Noomi Rapace, a spiky, darkly seductive...
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Oscar guessing: Odds or dumb luck?
BY DENNIS KING I have a friend who prides himself on correctly guessing Oscar winners every year – despite the fact that he rarely ever sees any of the nominated movies. With a cold eye, he scans the...
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Oscars: Guessing who gets the gold (or) The good, the bad and the neglected
BY GENE TRIPLETT When Albert Brooks found out he’d been passed over in the Supporting Actor category, he shot back at the Academy via Twitter: “You don’t like me. You really don’t like me.” Jean...
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