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Unlikely combinations

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Mildly funny adventures in extreme baby-sitting, director David Gordon Green’s The Sitter finds its emblematic moment in the scene of Sam Rockwell, playing a Brooklyn drug dealer, joking around and then suddenly blasting one of his minions in the foot in a ...

Arrested development

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It´s not easy being mean, as Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody’s latest project, Young Adult — directed by her Juno collaborator, Jason Reitman — goes about illustrating with an intriguing, unsettled blend of pity and pitilessness...

reel to reel | Week of Dec. 15, 2011

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42nd Street...

Cross-cultural animation

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Five years ago, the Bristol, England-based Aardman animation folks — who created the stop-motion legends Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep and therefore are eligible for sainthood — made the digitally animated British/American co-production Flushed Away. Jam-...

More vulgarity, please

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In 1956, not long after she married Death of a Salesman playwright Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe made a movie with director and star Laurence Olivier at England’s Pinewood Studios. The film, The Prince and the Showgirl, came from Terence Rattigan’s drawing-room ...

reel to reel | Week of Dec. 8, 2011

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Arthur Christmas See full review Page 37. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Raised and trained in the rigorous Tibetan monastic tradition, Trungpa came to the West and shattered ...

Legendary ski family hopes to start a movement

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Stories about people overcoming obstacles are uplifting and inspirational and all that. A new film on people with disabilities aims higher: It’s designed to start a movement...

A magical tale through film history

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Hugo (Asa Butterfield) is a scruffy orphan who lives in forgotten spaces hidden in the walls of Gare Montparnasse, a bustling train station located in the center of Paris. It’s 1931 and memories of The Great War are fresh, even as everyone tries to resume their ...

Nostalgic puppets to the rescue

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A frisky new film showcasing some old pals made out of felt, charm and some kind of genius, the Disney release The Muppets overcomes a jaded streak reflecting its makers’ nervousness about selling Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and the gang to an audience ...

reel to reel | Week of Dec. 1, 2011

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Arthur Christmas Arthur Christmas is not a perfect gift, but it does feature enough holiday cheer and silly fun to make it more entertaining than 10 lords a-leaping. It helps that the film has a warm message about how tradition should never be sacrificed for ...

Next-best thing

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Operatic characters are larger than life. Especially when projected on a 20-foot tall movie screen...

Singing on the ice

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I admired much of the original Happy Feet (2006), but five years later, I’m still considering suing its makers for emotional distress...