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Clint Eastwood targets the legacy of Dirty Harry
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterON a recent afternoon at the Warner Bros. lot, Clint Eastwood took a break from a long day in the editing bay and strolled over to a hushed screening room. There, his armed-and-dangerous past was waiting for him, and the filmmaker winced when he looked it...Tags: Local Elections, John Wayne, Werner Herzog, Steve McQueen, Charlton Heston
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Giving Angela Carter her due
By Richard Rayner "A good writer can make you believe time stands still. Yet the end of all stories, even if the writer forbears to mention it, is death," wrote the English writer Angela Carter, who died 16 years ago this month. At the time Carter was...Tags: Patrick Hamilton, Hans Christian Andersen, Family, Murder, Angela Carter
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'Brave' but bitter
Sun Movie Critic(C) Jodie Foster, who earned an Oscar nomination 32 years ago for playing a child prostitute in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, plays a more cultured character in The Brave One, an illegitimate heir to that incendiary mid-1970s masterpiece. Here she's a...Tags: Medical Conditions, Film Festivals, Jodie Foster, Radio, Abel Ferrara
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Jodie turns vigilante in 'Brave One'
amNewYork Movie CriticFor every D.C. sniper, Son of Sam or terrorist who's received a fair trial in the court of law, there are swarms of Americans who'd rather see such murderous vermin cleanly wiped out from the population. "The Brave One" appeals to that primitive human...Tags: Mary Steenburgen, Jodie Foster, Donald Trump, Central Park
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'The Brave One'
Zap2It.com"The Brave One," the second vigilante vengeance thriller of the fall, doesn't just skate by on another classy turn by Jodie Foster. She makes this latest Spawn of "Death Wish" downright disturbing as she explores the thrilling and then chilling and...Tags: Mary Steenburgen, Jodie Foster, Defense, Central Park, Firearms
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Movie review: 'The Brave One'
Tribune movie critic3 stars (out of four) "The Brave One" is "Death Wish" with a guilty conscience, and while it may be a bit of a hypocrite as vigilante thrillers go, the internal contradictions of the thing make for a very interesting picture. Ever since Shakespeare toned...Tags: Film Festivals, Robert De Niro, Celebrity, Jodie Foster, Radio
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Foster sees a U.S. full of fear, rage
Tribune movie critic"Wow. That's ... that's great." Her voice a whisper, her unblinking eyes quickly scanning every knob and meter, Jodie Foster marvels as her interviewer folds up the wee tripod of the Sony PCM-D1, a hand-size digital audio recorder that looks like a...Tags: Film Festivals, Celebrity, Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Martin Scorsese
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Roll 'em
Dates are subject to change. SEPT. 14 Across the Universe The songs of the Beatles score this love story set against the political and social upheaval of the 1960s. Julie Taymor (Broadway's "The Lion King") directs. With Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess...Tags: Amanda Bynes, Danny DeVito, Barry Levinson, Gina Gershon, Jack Black
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Coming soon...Fall's best movies
amNewYork Movie CriticAs the summer movie season groans through the final August dregs, we look ahead to the fall -- aka Oscar-contending -- films to rejuvenate theaters like a gust of crisp autumn wind. You'll find a number of films hewing to post-9/11 themes, and several...Tags: Michael Caine, Tommy Lee Jones, Kenneth Branagh, Central Park, David Cronenberg
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Fast-Paised review: 'The Brave One'
After random thugs pummel her fiance to death and deliver a beating that temporarily puts her in a coma, radio host Erica (Jodie Foster) buys a gun and starts discreetly offing criminals because the cops don't seem to do anything about it. Understandably,...Tags: Mary Steenburgen, Jodie Foster, Donald Trump
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