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Entries by Marshall Fine from 04/2009

The Year's Most Overrated Film - So Far

| Posted 04.01.2009

Turgid and uneventful, Goodbye Solo is another under-paced, under-dramatized film that falls into "neo-neo-realism" category.

Return of the best series on TV

| Posted 04.07.2009

Let me say it flat out: Rescue Me is the best show on TV. And its fifth season, which kicks off tonight on FX, promises to be as intense, gripping - a...

Ron Howard? Has Bill Maher Lost His Mind?

| Posted 04.14.2009

Why would Maher kiss Ron Howard's ass, giving him the one-on-one treatment as though he were a major filmmaker?

Newspaper Death Rattle: Movies Don't Tell the Half of It

| Posted 04.20.2009

Much has been made of the fact that, within two weeks, we have two movies that deal with the crisis in newspapers that is threatening contemporary journalism as we know it.

Revenge of Gen-X: What Movies About the 80s Mean

| Posted 04.24.2009

In case you needed proof that Hollywood is dominated by and aimed at people in their 30s and early 40s, look at all the movies about the 1980s currently on screens.

The Garden -- the Shame of L.A.

| Posted 04.24.2009

"All politics is local," the late Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill famously said. And politics don't get much more local than The Garden, an infuriatingly clear-eyed documentary.

TV's Most Tireless Actors: He Certainly Looks Familiar

| Posted 04.27.2009

Because of the staggered nature of TV seasons these days, actors are suddenly available for more than one series at once -- and can have two or more shows on the air at the same time.

HuffPost Interview: Scott Hamilton Kennedy, director of Oscar-nominated doc, The Garden

| Posted 04.30.2009

From his first day of shooting until its premiere in L.A. last week, Scott Hamilton Kennedy spent more than four years working on The Garden. "But my...