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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Wish You Were Here”

>Two Australian couples vacation together on the beaches of Cambodia, but only 3 people return. That’s the set-up for Kieran Darcy-Smith’s skilled debut WISH YOU WERE HERE, which premiered as part of Sundance’...

by Mitch Salem

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HOP: Easter Egg Over Easy

> Watch It At Home People complain that Hollywood doesn’t take risks, but Universal went and hired the director of Alvin and the Chipmunks to make a movie about a musical-minded, free-spirit digitally animated character w...

by Mitch Salem

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BROADWAY JOURNAL: “War Horse” and “Jerusalem”

> For a new play, WAR HORSE has strong movie connections. The play is adapted for the stage by Nick Stafford from the 1982 novel by Michael Morpurgo, and that novel is also the basis of Steven Spielberg’s upcoming f...

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THE SKED PILOT REPORT: PREMIERING TONIGHT – FOX’s “New Girl”

> Disclaimer: Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall. Pilots are often reedited and rescored, and in some cases even recast or reshot. So these critiques sh...

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BROADWAY JOURNAL: “Anything Goes”

> Once there was a time when Broadway musicals didn’t have to say anything about society, politics, art, literature, or really much of anything. They were exercises in style, excuses for glamorous people to get up o...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “For a Good Time, Call…”

> There’s a principled discussion to be had about whether the Sundance Film Festival should be featuring movies that are essentially low-budget Hollywood entertainments made outside the studio system. But that discussion ...

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LIMITED RELEASE: “The Double Hour,” “Incendies” & “Cave of Forgotten Dreams”

> Plot spoilers are even more problematic when it comes to limited releases, because by definition they’re only being seen by a few people in certain selected locations, and–if they’re good–will ideally ...

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SCRE4M: Meta Boo!

> Watch It At Home; The thrills are so postmodern, they don’t seem to be happening in the theater. When the original Scream arrived in 1996, the slaughtering-the-teenagers genre was already old enough to drive; the ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Red Lights”

> Or if the title were a Jeopardy answer, the question would be: what should writer/director Rodrigo Cortes have paid attention to, before he typed “The End” on his script Red Lights wouldn’t have been a festi...

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FAST FIVE: Boxoffice Express

> Worth a Ticket: Diesel and The Rock keep their pedals to the metal. If you want to feel truly American, try reflecting on the new FAST FIVE while wall-to-wall coverage of the British royal wedding is airing on the telev...

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ARCHIVE REVIEWS: “Prince of Persia” and “Moon”

> SOURCE CODE is this weekend’s major live-action opening, so here’s a look at some recent work by its star Jake Gyllenhaal and its director Duncan Jones. Gyllenhaal has had a curious Hollywood career thus far, and ...

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SOURCE CODE: If At First You Don’t Succeed…

> Worth a ticket. They say that the definition of madness is repeating the same action with the expectation of a different result. But that diagnosis doesn’t allow for this: a man (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up an...

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SOMETHING BORROWED: The Weekend’s Not-Thor

> Watch it At Home; Something Acceptable. As romantic comedies with Kate Hudson go, SOMETHING BORROWED isn’t so bad. After her spectacular debut in Almost Famous, Hudson’s become something of a brand nam...

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LIMITED RELEASE: “Henry’s Crime”

> Watch It At Home: Petty larceny. Sometimes casting can be too good: Keanu Reeves playing a guy who pretty much sleepwalks through his own life is practically redundant. His whole style, from the very start o...

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BROADWAY JOURNAL; “Catch Me If You Can”

>Steven Spielberg week on Broadway continues: after War Horse, the director’s next film, we have CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, based on his 2002 comedy-drama (that film was written by Jeff Nathanson). Spielberg&#...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Wish You Were Here”

HOP: Easter Egg Over Easy

BROADWAY JOURNAL: “War Horse” and “Jerusalem”

THE SKED PILOT REPORT: PREMIERING TONIGHT – FOX’s “New Girl”

BROADWAY JOURNAL: “Anything Goes”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “For a Good Time, Call…”

LIMITED RELEASE: “The Double Hour,” “Incendies” & “Cave of Forgotten Dreams”

SCRE4M: Meta Boo!

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Red Lights”

FAST FIVE: Boxoffice Express

ARCHIVE REVIEWS: “Prince of Persia” and “Moon”

SOURCE CODE: If At First You Don’t Succeed…

SOMETHING BORROWED: The Weekend’s Not-Thor

LIMITED RELEASE: “Henry’s Crime”

BROADWAY JOURNAL; “Catch Me If You Can”

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