It's easy to laugh at ageing movie stars. Crumbs, when they make films like The Expendables they actively encourage us to make jokes about creaking joints and dicky hips. But…
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I wasn't all that crazy about Iron Man 3, but my friend Tom Carson really liked it. I point this out not because it's so rare that Tom and I…
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Is Brandon Cronenberg a chip off the old block? We look at Antiviral to find out, ballet hopefuls put themselves through hell in First Position and guest host Sarah Watt…
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Penn Badgely and Imogen Poots I have a rather amusing, I guess, conflict that made it questionable for me to write about this movie in a professional context, which is…
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The great Durbin in Robert Siodmak's 1944 masterwork Christmas Holiday, which I wrote about at greater length here. Like Garbo, like Brigitte Helm, not quite like Luise Rainer (who is…
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Whatever they are paying Robert Downey Jr. to play Iron Man, it is is worth every penny. Iron Man 3, the third instalment in his own branch of the Marvel…
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