Nia Vardalos' surprise smash 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding', somehow never spawned a sequel—though it was turned into a disastrous, short-lived TV series. Now Vardalos has the closest thing to a follow-up.
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If it was inevitable that someone would get around to doing a big-screen version of Sid and Marty Krofft's hokey 1974 live-action Saturday-morning TV series about dinosaurs, 'Land of the Lost'>, it might as well be Will Ferrell.
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At first glance it feels like a special edition of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm', but soon into Woody Allen's latest film, you realize that its star, Larry David, is channeling his writer-director.
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Winning the best foreign-language film Oscar over such formidable competition as 'Waltz With Bashir' and the Cannes Palme d'Or winner 'The Class' was a surprising triumph for 'Departures.'
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Shakespeare, space, Socrates, symbolism—What Goes Up shoots for the moon. With a combination of unorthodox scenarios, unsympathetic characters, and uneven performances, it's doomed to never get off the ground.
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
The first big question about Terry Gilliam's 'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus' involves how the filmmaker managed to complete the film when his star Heath Ledger died in the middle of shooting.
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Life for Christine (Alison Lohman) would seem reasonably far from hell given her position as a Los Angeles bank loan officer and her nurturing relationship with her college professor boyfriend (Justin Long).
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What a thrill to watch actors of Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company—accomplished performers all—as they come back to study the text of their noble kinsman William Shakespeare at the knee of the illustrious director John Barton.
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While his 'Pulp Fiction' arrived late at the Festival de Cannes and swept away the Palme d'Or in 1994, his World War II action movie 'Inglourious Basterds' merely continues the string of disappointments in this year's Competition.
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Skewering the song-and-dance genre with the irreverent, rude 'n' crude moves that marked the best of their "Scary Movie" franchise, the Wayans brothers (and sons and nephews) find plenty to parody in "Dance Flick."
