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Ozon's Cat-and-Mouse 'In the House'
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Surprises in 'Gatsby' (Review)
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Two Other Gatsbys, Two Better Nicks
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Mira Nair's 'Reluctant Fundamentalist'
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Watch Obama & Conan's Comedy at WHCD
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Affleck in Malick's 'To the Wonder'
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Ricky Gervais' Hilarious, Awful Music Video ...
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Danny Boyle's 'Trance'
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Ryan Gosling in "Place Beyond the Pines"
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Brandon Cronenberg's 'Antiviral'
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Black Comedy 'It's a Disaster'
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Brilliant Melissa McCarthy on SNL (Video ...
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'Room 237,' Kubrick & Malkovich
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Colbert Asks Franco: Are You A Fraud?
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Justin Timberlake's Latest SNL (Video)
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Watch Ricky Gervais in 'The Office Revisited' ...
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'Downton Abbey' Kills Off You-Know-Who
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'Downton' Does 'Breaking Bad' (Video)
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James Franco's Risk-Free 'Oz'
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'Downton Sixbey': Lady Hedith's Answer
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Smart Middle East Doc 'The Gatekeepers'
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'Downton Abbey' Season 3 Review
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Bad Title,Good 'Silver Linings Playbook'
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Foxx,Washington On 'Django' & Race (Vide ...
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Keira Knightley's Chilly 'Anna K.'
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'Skyfall': An Older, Better-Written Bond
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A Boy and His Tiger: 'Life of Pi'
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Brad Pitt, SNL on Chanel:Which Is Real?
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SNL's Lost Bond Girls
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Hugh Laurie,Catherine Keener on 'Oranges ...
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'The Master': Egotists and Cultists
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Jimmy Fallon Sings 'Romney & Bain'
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Fincher, Others in 'Side By Side' Extras
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Watch "Andrew Sarris: Critic in Focus"
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Amy Poehler on Sex, Music (Video)
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Fallon Does "Downton Sixbey, Part 2"
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Ewan McGregor On "Beginners"
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Edgy Obama At WH Correspondents Dinner -
Keanu Reeves' New Doc (Trailer) -
Daniel Radcliffe As Casey Anthony's Dog
Monthly Archives
Caryn James
TV Review. "Big Love" and Mormons, Mormons Everywhere
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- January 14, 2011 6:16 AM
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As Big Love begins its final season (Sunday on HBO) we can see the influence of this series about a polygamist and his three wives all over the culture. In recent months alone we’ve had Brady Udall’s rich, grabbing literary novel The Lonely Polygamist and the reality series Sister Wives on TLC. The pattern is clear: not mainstream Mormons, but breakaway polygamists, feeding our voyeuristic interest in multiple marriage.
A Major French Film Festival, Online
- By Caryn James
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- January 13, 2011 6:04 AM
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One of the best little thrillers I’ve seen lately is Espion(s) (translated with bizarre spelling as a Spy(ies) ) with charismatic Guillaume Canet as a baggage handler blackmailed into working for MI-5 in London, helping them trap a businessman smuggling explosives from Damascus. It’s a highlight among a promising group of French films, none shown in the U.S. before, available online as part of My French Film Festival.
TV Preview: When Piers Met Oprah (Plus Macaroni and Cheese)
- By Caryn James
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- January 12, 2011 11:01 AM
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Piers Morgan Tonight begins its run as the replacement for Larry King Live on Monday, but Morgan has been teasing his first interview, with Oprah Winfrey, for days. You'll notice it's not Piers Morgan Live, and the already-taped two-hour extravaganza will be cut down to 45 minutes or so on air. That's some heavy-duty editing, with lots of interesting bits likely to be left out.
Watch Stephen Colbert's TV Commercial Sell-Out-Off
- By Caryn James
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- January 12, 2011 5:06 AM
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Deep into awards season, it's time to remember what awards are really about: money.
Movie Review: It’s Seth Rogen’s Green Hornet
- By Caryn James
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- January 12, 2011 5:01 AM
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Even slimmed down, Seth Rogen brings the good-hearted shlubiness of his Knocked Up character to his superhero’s role in The Green Hornet. Michel Gondry may be its director – and he’s usually a film’s wizard -- but The Green Hornet is Seth Rogen’s show. As actor and writer he provides its most winning qualities.
TV Review. "Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides"
- By Caryn James
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- January 11, 2011 3:30 AM
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While he was raking in awards for Crazy Heart last year, Jeff Bridges made a point of thanking his stand-in, Loyd Catlett. Now Catlett, who has observed Bridges at close range over four decades, offers one sly little comment in the American Masters bio Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides: "Rooster Cogburn is probably the Dude’s great-great-great grandfather.”
Ratings Update: Shameless, Episodes Have Big Premieres
- By Caryn James
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- January 10, 2011 11:28 AM
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Shameless, Showtimes lively dark comedy with William H. Macy as a falling-down-drunk father of six, was the network's biggest drama premiere in seven years. Matt LeBlanc's meta-comedy Episodes also had a big debut. As The Hollywood Reporter story notes, those numbers only included subscribers, not viewers of the network's free weekend, so Macy and LeBlanc can settle in.
Films in Progress: The Loving Story
- By Caryn James
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- January 10, 2011 6:55 AM
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Now and then I’ll give you a peek at a film in progress – something that doesn’t come with major hype – and keep you posted when it turns up on screen. Here’s a look at The Loving Story, a beautifully made, nearly finished documentary about Mildred and Richard Loving, the interracial couple who were arrested and forced to leave Virginia in the 1950’s, and whose Supreme Court case finally struck down anti-miscegenation laws.
TV Review. Off the Map, Where Grey's Anatomy Collides With Lost
- By Caryn James
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- January 10, 2011 3:00 AM
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The promos for Off the Map, the new ABC drama about doctors in a run-down clinic in a remote South American village, look like Grey’s Anatomy meets Lost, but I never imagined this disappointing clunker would really be that mashup. The series is executive produced by Grey's Shonda Rhimes and created by one of its producers, Jenna Bans, and like that much more engaging medical soap opera, Off the Map features attractive young doctors among an experienced hospital staff. Love affairs! Jockeying for the bloodiest cases!
Watch Jim Carrey Do Black Swan
- By Caryn James
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- January 9, 2011 5:40 AM
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The best way to watch SNL is always to record and zap through most of it, but last night's was worth stopping a couple of times. Bill Hader already has his John Boehner impression down, a bawling baby who crumbles at the mention of a flag or a kitten, at everything except people without health care. And host Jim Carrey took on Black Swan. Carrey never does pointed satire, so the sketch is tailored to his outsized physical schtick, but it's funny, and worth waiting for him in full swan makeup at the end.
