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Michael Sragow's 13 great haunted house movies
Baltimore Sun reporterFrom the blog Michael Sragow Gets Reel: It hasn't been a great era for haunted-house movies. The third version of "House of Wax," in 2005, was awful enough to kill off the form, at least as far as big American studios were concerned. The day my review...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, The Old Dark House (movie), Deborah Kerr, Literature, Geraldine Chaplin
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Absolute Power (1997)
Clint Eastwood stars as the sensitive thief who can save the entire American political system from complete corruption. Too bad he wasn't around during the Reagan administration. Eastwood discovers presidential corruption during...Tags: Literature, Music Theater, Micky Dolenz, Tom Berenger, Thomas Dekker
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Jonah Hill, Jan de Bont at the Santa Monica Museum of Art
All The RageCelebrating "The Power of Ten" at the Santa Monica Museum of Art paid off handsomely for some partygoers, as ticket prices included the opportunity to win one of 25 original artworks. With the shindig marking executive director Elsa Longhauser's 10th........ -
'Speed' Director Surfs to 'Point Break' Sequel
Zap2It.comWhoa. Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze's crime-surf classic "Point Break" is finally getting a sequel, with director Jan de Bont at the helm. According to The Hollywood Reporter, original screenwriter W. Peter Iliff is returning to script the sequel,...Tags: Patrick Swayze, FBI, Movies, Kathryn Bigelow, Keanu Reeves
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Movie review: 'Black Book'
Tribune movie critic3½ stars (out of four) Paul Verhoeven's "Black Book" is a wildly imaginative portrayal of the Dutch Resistance in 1944 and 1945 and of an improbable but intense love affair between a Jewish spy (Carice van Houten) and a German Gestapo chief (Sebastian...Tags: Vehicles, Sony Corp., Romance (genre), Burt Lancaster, Rutger Hauer
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Movie review: 'Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life'
Chicago Tribune Movie Writer2 stars (out of 4) Ridiculously clunky title aside, "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life" is superior to 2001's "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" in almost every way. It's better directed, more consistently acted, and its writing, while at times...Tags: Gerard Butler, Noah Taylor, Harry Potter (fictional character), Gaming, Action (genre)
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Speed 2: Cruise Control
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday June 13, 1997 The Seabourn Legend has everything a movie cruise ship needs, including five passenger decks, swimming pool, health club, beauty salon, plus a mad terrorist to call its very own. It's completely appropriate that "Speed 2:...Tags: Glenn Plummer, Movies, Keanu Reeves, Folklore and Mythology, Jason Patric
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The Haunting
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday July 23, 1999 "The Haunting" is such a feeble frightfest that even its characters seem irked at it. "You brought us here to scare us, is that it?" is the disbelieving reaction of the lovely Theo (Catherine Zeta-Jones), a sentiment that people...Tags: Owen Wilson, Julie Harris, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Gaming, Robert Wise
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A Walk in the Dark
TIMES STAFF WRITERIt took paranoid visionary Philip K. Dick to do what Stanley Kubrick could not: Get Steven Spielberg to fully cross over to the dark side. The question now is, how happy are we to have him there? Spielberg's "Minority Report" is amplified from a Dick...Tags: Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick, Lois Smith, Movies, Max von Sydow
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Movie review, 'Minority Report'
Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report," with Tom Cruise as a cop on the run in 2054 Washington, D.C., is a film that can get you high on the sheer magic and exhilaration of making movies. The film, based on a Philip K. Dick pulp science-fiction story about...Tags: Andrei Tarkovsky, Harrison Ford, Science, Sweden, Fiction
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Movie review, 'Equilibrium'
Science fiction is a good genre for creating dystopias - visions of nightmarish future societies - but the awful future we see in "Equilibrium" is one we've seen a few times too often. The movie, a mishmash of Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," George...Tags: Sociology, Emily Watson, Christian Bale, Fiction, Gaming
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