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There’s not really much to say anymore about the “Saw” series, which has found its formula and is sticking with it. Arriving for its annual Halloween time slot, this franchise is now in its sixth edition. It might well be time for a creative rebooting; the freshness, if not the viscera, has begun to strongly [...]
Back in the old, pre-cable days, “Wide World of Sports” on ABC used to promise “the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.” That famous catchphrase contained an implicit recognition of a fact seldom acknowledged in America’s triumphalist sports culture, namely that failure can be as compelling as success, sometimes even more so. [...]
A good idea for a sophisticated comedy lurks within the latest Jon Favreau-Vince Vaughn collaboration, “Couples Retreat,” but the filmmakers lack the courage of their convictions. So the payoff is mixed at best. The problem might lie in that word “sophisticated.” The current trends in film comedies are raunch and juvenilia, the very antithesis of [...]
Bottom Line: Catch it before it passes by. This brilliant musical by Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown eloquently dramatizes a real-life tragic miscarriage of justice that occurred in 1913 in Atlanta: the false conviction and ultimate mob lynching of Jewish factory superintendent Leo Frank, accused of murdering 13-year-old Mary Phagan. The Mark Taper Forum’s [...]
Adobe House has a variation hit on its pointer with Jiffy. The newest Jiffy Contestant, type 10, had been downloaded to near 60 pct of computers worldwide within two months of its outlet. It has beautify the acceptable of pick on the Cyberspace, for video publishers of all kinds, from the unpredictable bill to the [...]
