Monthly Archives: April 2003

Identity

Posted on April 30, 2003

Boy’s night out and we decided to see director James Mangold’s take on the old locked room mystery, Identity. Good choice, because Mangold really knows how to work within some pretty serious constraints (which are self-imposed, but still) and the … Continue reading →

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Fellini's Satyricon

Posted on April 26, 2003

Tivo Suggested that I’d enjoy these two movies and there was nothing else I could find (one can only watch the NFL draft for so long, after all) and so I pushed the button. But I just didn’t get either … Continue reading →

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Monsoon Wedding

Posted on April 26, 2003

Tivo Suggested that I’d enjoy these two movies and there was nothing else I could find (one can only watch the NFL draft for so long, after all) and so I pushed the button. But I just didn’t get either … Continue reading →

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Bulletproof Monk

Posted on April 20, 2003

For some reason, the reviewers came down hard on Chow Yun Fat’s new flick Bulletproof Monk but after seeing it I can’t tell you why. About the only thing that Roger Ebert, for example, seems to like is the opening … Continue reading →

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Alice's Restaurant

Posted on April 11, 2003

When most of us think of the ’60s and the hippies these days, we remember San Francisco’s Summer of Love, the scene in Greenwich Village, or the Mods in London but not too much about the little pockets that surfaced … Continue reading →

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The Salton Sea

Posted on April 10, 2003

What is the measure of a man? That’s the question writer Tony Gayton asks us to consider while watching 2002′s The Salton Sea, a quote he takes from Plutarch: “The measure of a man is the way he bears up … Continue reading →

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Crossroads

Posted on April 6, 2003

First scene with Britney shows us the starlet dancing and singing along to a Madonna tune wearing only panties and a tight, barely there top, then wriggling into pajama bottoms. So we know who the target audience is for this … Continue reading →

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