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Sunday, July 29, 2007

moliere

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The Shakespeare in Love of romantic comedy-dramas about the young life of the French playwright Moliere. But not as good.
Thursday, July 26, 2007

no end in sight: the interview

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Charles Ferguson, the writer and director of the great new documentary No End in Sight , talks to me about the film in this week's LA We...
Friday, July 13, 2007

manhattan

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The greatest movie Woody Allen ever made returns with a new print for one week in New York starting today . The Village Voice 's J. Hobe...
Thursday, July 12, 2007

snow patrol

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The Glasgow band is taking one more trip across America this summer. I preview their latest tour.

falling out of love with the simpsons

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I ask every Simpsons fan in my life the same question: How do you think the movie will be? They all have the same response: They grimace, fe...

talk to me

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Don Cheadle and Chiwetel Ejiofor are both quite good in this filmic re-creation of the life of 1960s DJ Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene Jr., but ...
Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Top 10 Smashing Pumpkins Songs

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Yup, they're back. Billy Corgan is taking the '90s alt-rockers back on the road in support of a new album. Thanks to the fine folks ...

ratatouille

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I taste-test the latest Pixar film in Consumables . I also take on Interview , Ocean's Thirteen , and the new albums from Amy Winehouse ...
Friday, July 06, 2007

the bitter truth

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"Someday, the Bush era may come to seem like a bad dream, a shameful, inexplicable interlude in American history. We're right to be...
Wednesday, July 04, 2007

introducing the dwights

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Happy 4th, everyone. If you're in the mood for an Australian coming-of-age dramedy about a crazy showbiz family, you're in luck .
Tuesday, July 03, 2007

license to wed

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It's John Krasinski vs. Robin Williams in this painfully unfunny romantic comedy . And I have a question to all the married/engaged coup...
Sunday, July 01, 2007

edward yang, 1947-2007

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There are two movies I adore that I won't let my wife watch until they run on the big screen. In the time we've been together, they...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007

ghosts of cite soleil

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This documentary about power, poverty, and gangs in the Haitian slums opens today in New York. It's not a pretty picture, but it's o...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

the hidden gems of elvis costello

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Elvis Costello is on the road this summer to promote his new reissues, The Best of Elvis Costello: The First 10 Years and Rock and Roll Mu...
Monday, June 25, 2007

white stripes

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Icky Thump is easily the band's loudest record. It's also one of their best. Elsewhere in Consumables , I take on Wilco, Bruce Sprin...
Thursday, June 21, 2007

los angeles film festival

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While we can lament that 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days was a last-minute scratch, the Los Angeles Film Festival starts tonight and there are...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

you kill me

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Ben Kingsley and Tea Leoni make for a fun (if unlikely) romantic pairing in You Kill Me , an offbeat hit-man comedy from director John Dahl.
Monday, June 18, 2007

evan almighty

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At last. A comedy about a flood wiping out humanity .
Thursday, June 14, 2007

casting about

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Actors' audition tapes for a fiction film instead become the raw material for Casting About , a documentary about the auditioning proces...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

eagle vs. shark

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This Sundance romantic comedy doesn't know if it loves or hates its nerdy characters. I feel the same way about it.
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Tim Grierson
Senior U.S. critic for Screen International. My writing appears at the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Vulture and the A.V. Club. My latest book is This Is How You Make a Movie. I'm also the author of Martin Scorsese in Ten Scenes and Public Enemy: Inside the Terrordome. Other books: FilmCraft: Screenwriting, Wilco: Sunken Treasure, and Blinking Lights and Other Revelations: The Story of Eels. (I'm also co-author of FilmCraft: Cinematography.) Email me at grierson@hotmail.com.
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