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The Parent Trap Remake Starring Lindsay Lohan
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I like this remake even better than the original, which starred Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, and the late Brian Keith. Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson are appealing as the divorced parents, and Lindsay Lohan is as cute as a button in her screen debut playing the dual roles of Hallie and Annie, who scheme to bring their parents back together..
Updated Feb 28, 2007
United 93 DVD
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An unrolling of the events of 9/11, leading to the climax where UA 93 passengers stormed the cockpit and thwarted the intentions of the terrorist-hijackers. While the passengers went to their deaths, they might have saved many other lives.
Updated Nov 4, 2006
Raid on Entebbe
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Based on a true event in which Israeli commandos launched a daring raid to free passengers from a hijacked flight grounded in Idi Amin's Uganda. One passenger disappeared, while all others were freed. The only fatality on Israel's side was Jonathan Netanyahu, whose memory propelled his brother Binyamin into political leadership in Israel.
Chuck Norris's Delta Force was a thinly fictionalized version of the Entebbe event.
Updated Feb 28, 2007
Evita
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Evita has hardly any dialogue - it's practically all sung to Andrew Lloyd Webber's score and Tim Rice's lyrics. Madonna carries the film as the ambitious and enigmatic Evita Peron, while Antonio Banderas pops up in various roles (demonstrator, movie projectionist, etc.) to provide continuity to the story line. Both are terrific in this movie. Jonathan Price plays Juan Peron.
Updated Feb 28, 2007
Dick Tracy
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This film was panned when it was released in 1990, probably because of Warren Beatty's ego and obsessive vision (he wanted to replicate the look of color comics, down to matching reds and yellows), but it's entertaining nonetheless and worth viewing. Dustin Hoffman has a brief role as the unintelligible Mumbles, but it's Al Pacino who steals the show as Big Boy Caprice. Pacino is as emotive and overwrought as ever, but here he's playing a comic and campy role, for which he was deservedly nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor (he lost). Madonna is terrific as torch singer Breathless Mahoney.
Updated Mar 29, 2007
Jane Eyre (1944)
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Given that Elizabeth Taylor turned 75 on February 27, it's only fitting to look back at one of her earliest films, made when she was only 11 or 12. In this adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's classic novel, she plays Helen Burns, Jane's friend at boarding school. She makes a luminous entrance as Jane is standing on a box for punishment and befriends Jane. Later, Helen dies in Jane's arms as they sleep, and Helen's death is heralded by a tea kettle running out of steam. Surprisingly, Elizabeth Taylor's performance went uncredited!
Joan Fontaine plays the adult Jane and Orson Welles plays Mr. Rochester. Child actress Margaret O'Brien plays Mr. Rochester's French ward Adele.
Shame on Netflix for not carrying this film!
Updated Mar 2, 2007
American Beauty
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This drama about dysfunctional familes in suburbia stars Kevin Spacey as a man in midlife crisis who abruptly quits his job, takes up bodybuilding, and lusts after his teenage daughter's friend and Annette Bening as his high-strung wife who's ready to snap. The film closes with a rapid dénouement, which reveals that everything is not how it appears.
Updated Feb 28, 2007
Black
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This opulent Hindi/English language film rips off The Miracle Worker in the first half, only that Teacher is an aging man, not a girl barely out of her teens, as was Annie Sullivan. I have ambivalent feelings about a man as teacher, as it leads to (sensitively handled) sexual tension as the deaf and blind girl grows up and matures and feels attraction toward the man upon whom she depends. Features great performances by Bollywood babe Rani Mukherji as deaf and blind Michelle McNalley and Nandana Sen as her sister who resents the attention given to Michelle. Amitabh Bachchan gives a bravura performance as the teacher, Mr. Desai
Updated Feb 28, 2007
David Copperfield
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OK, this film diverges from the Dickens novel, but who cares? Starring Freddy Bartholomew as young David, W.C. Fields as ne'er-do-well Mr. Micawber, Basil Rathbone (best known for Sherlock Holmes) as David's cruel stepfather Mr. Murdstone, and Edna May Oliver as Aunt Betsey Trotwood who gives Mr. Murdstone and his sister their come-uppance.
Updated Feb 28, 2007
Beavis and Butt-head Do America
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My guilty pleasure ... Beavis and Butthead's TV gets stolen, they go cross-country to find it, and fall in situations involving contract murders and stolen biological weapons. Favorite songs include Isaac Hayes's "Two Cool Guys" (a self-parody of "Shaft") and Engelbert Humperdinks's "Fly Away Lesbian Seagull." Featuring the voices of Mike Judge, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, and the late Robert Stack as the ATF agent
Updated Feb 28, 2007
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