The Sound of Music, Robert Wise, 1965 Some know-somethingish drip over at Slant tried to take a contrarian or counter-intuitive or whatever the hell they call it "take" on the…
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Harry Potter and the Onset of Puberty? Harry Potter and the Hormonal Surge? No, and, no, it's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and as I point out in my…
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Charlie Chaplin and Eric Campbell in The Rink, Chaplin, 1916 A bunch of years ago Premiere did a "Ten Best Sex Scenes In Cinema" feature, and for some insane reason…
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...or, "I'd like to have an argument," since lists like these always tend to start one. Months in the making, one of my more sizable projects for MSN Movies and…
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"I think he just made up my part because he wanted to work together. I loved it. He gave me wing scars and let me sing 'Rock-a-bye Baby' to Bud.…
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The aftermath of one of those nights as seen in Pia Marais' strong 2006 feature debut Die Unerzogenen (released, after a fashion, in English-speaking territories as The Unpolished), an underseen…
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