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The Shining: Hotel of Horrors

This may be the most incoherent horror movie ever made that also happens to be one of the best. You shouldn’t think too hard about it, just surrender to its unforgettable horror sequences and its wintry, chilling beauty. Ten years ago, a friend of mine and I had a nerdy contest where we decided to crown the greatest horror movie ever made. After plenty of heartbreaking comparisons and heated discussions, we agreed on one candidate…
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Published 9 May 2008. Read this capsule review

Turistas

A group of tourists are stranded in the Brazilian jungles and fall victim to organ thieves. Director John Stockwell (of Blue Crush and Into the Blue fame) likes to shoot underwater footage, so that’s what we get even in this chiller, as well as the obligatory semi-nude hotties. Not as gory as expected…
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Published 8 May 2008. Read this capsule review

Norbit

Norbit, a bullied orphan, is protected by a very large, mean and domineering girl; as adults, they marry but Norbit sees a chance to escape when he meets another childhood friend (Thandie Newton) again. Eddie Murphy was maligned for making this cheap comedy after his Oscar-nominated turn in Dreamgirls (2006)…
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Published 7 May 2008. Read this capsule review

Interiors

As a well-to-do family in New York falls apart, its members get ample opportunities to vent their anxieties and feelings of insufficiency. In Love and Death (1975) Woody Allen made jokes about Ingmar Bergman movies. With this film, his first one hundred percent joke-free effort, he has essentially done something that could have come from Bergman. The relationships between these people are complex…
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Published 6 May 2008. Read this capsule review

It's All About Batman and Indy

Movieweb.com has put up the new trailers for The Dark Knight and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. You can talk all you want about Hulks and Iron Men, but there is no doubt that these two are the summer’s hottest sequels…
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Published 5 May 2008. Read this blog entry

Scarecrow

Max and Francis (Gene Hackman and Al Pacino), two hobos, hook up and start making plans about opening a car wash, but there’s always obstacles in their way. Director Jerry Schatzberg followed up his The Panic in Needle Park (1971) with another story about people on the outskirts of society. Hackman and Pacino are excellent as the talkative, hot-tempered dreamer…
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Published 5 May 2008. Read this capsule review

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