Monthly Archives: September 2002

The Tuxedo

Posted on September 28, 2002

The new Jackie Chan flick, The Tuxedo, opened yesterday and frankly I expected it to steamroll Reese Witherspoon’s Sweet Home Alabama. Neither got great reviews but the Chan appeal, with Jennifer Love Hewitt providing the hottie factor, should have done … Continue reading →

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Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

Posted on September 21, 2002

The official site is here but for some reason I can’t really get the page to come up. YMMV. Anyhow, this film is an attempt to bring another high profile Asian filmmaker to a more global audience and, of course, … Continue reading →

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Tadpole

Posted on September 17, 2002

A modern variation on Catcher in the Rye, Tadpole sets an upper west side Manhattan 15 year old boy on a Thanksgiving school break he’ll never forget. Mature beyond his years, capable of discussing Voltaire in the original French and … Continue reading →

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Local Hero

Posted on September 14, 2002

I’d been looking for this film for months, since I started spending so much time with the Sweet One, because it’s one of my all time favorites and she’d never seen it. Fortunately BBC America cablecast it earlier in the … Continue reading →

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Sum of All Fears

Posted on September 10, 2002

I haven’t been to the movies in a couple of weeks and I’d avoided this movie based on the terrible reviews in the newspapers. But there wasn’t anything else playing at the Dollar Movie night over in Milpitas (or Tiny … Continue reading →

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