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Movie Review: The Paperboy -- Kidman, Efron, Alligators

Caryn James | Posted October 4, 2012

Read More: Lee Daniels, Matthew McConaughey, New York Film Festival, Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy, Zac Efron, Movie Review, Precious

Even though the film finally doesn't cohere or amount to much, I was never bored, and I have to admire Daniels for making the film he wanted to.

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Bond at 50: Dr. No Is a Time Capsule From the Early Mad Men Era

William Bradley | Posted October 4, 2012

While there have been some real clunkers among the Bond films, especially during the the charming but not all that nice version played by Roger Moore, the series has endured through generations of fans, with its 24th film coming up.

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Andre Gregory's Life Chronicled in New Documentary

Steve Karras | Posted October 4, 2012

Read More: Andre Gregory, Cindy Kleine, Eldridge Cleaver, Wallace Shawn, Documentary, Documentary Filmmaking, Holocaust, Jewish-Refugee, My Dinner With Andre, Nazis

How does one begin to properly document a life, no matter how extraordinary, when it's far from over?

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A Remarkably Apolitical Political Film

Abigail E. Disney | Posted October 4, 2012

Read More: Abigail Disney, Indie Films, The Iran Job, The Iran Job Film, Independent Films, Iran, La Arts, Political Documentary, Political Films, Romney 47 Percent

I object to the idea that the personal and the political have nothing to do with each other. I suspect it is precisely this divided consciousness that makes for a political culture as brutal, unkind and ineffective as the one we endure today.

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Review: The Paperboy Delivers Nasty Nonsense

Zach Udko | Posted October 4, 2012

Read More: Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy, The Paperboy Movie, Zac Efron, Film The Paperboy, Lee Daniles, Zac Efron Film, Zac Efron Paperboy

The Paperboy shoots for greatness (a serious meditation on Southern race relations and sexuality in the 1960s) instead of fully embracing what it should be: a campy cinematic cesspool in which talented actors are ritually degraded in lurid scenes.

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After 50 Years, the Best Bond, Bond Girls and Villains

John Farr | Posted October 5, 2012

Read More: Bond Girls, Dr. No, From Russia With Love, James Bond 50th Anniversary, James Bond Anniversary, The Spy Who Loved Me, Daniel Craig James Bond, James Bond 50 Years

Times change, styles come and go. But along with Monty Norman's signature theme, still very much in use, James Bond endures.

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Lee Daniels Talks The Paperboy, Naked Zac Efron, and Being a Black, Gay Director

Isoul Harris | Posted October 4, 2012

Lee Daniels stunned the world with the 2009 film Precious, even snagging an Oscar nomination for Best Director. The openly gay 52-year-old is back with The Paperboy, an equally dark tale set in the southern Florida swamps.

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Movie Review: Frankenweenie

Marshall Fine | Posted October 4, 2012

I'm not one who worships at the altar of Tim Burton, probably disliking his films as often as I am moved by them. But I fell hard for Frankenweenie, an extrapolation of a short film Burton made almost 30 years ago.

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