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Board to tears: ‘Poor’ sheds light on shadows
The movie: Kill The Poor
The director: Alan Taylor
The stars: David Krumholtz, Clara Bellar, Paul Calderon
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THE IMBIBER
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Well, America, here we are, six full years into the George W. Bush Presidency and I, for one, couldn’t be happier with the direction this country is headed.
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The trouble with ‘Tristan’
The movie: Tristan & Isolde
The director: Kevin Reynolds
The stars: James Franco, Sophia Myles, Rufus Sewell
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Latifah faring better
The movie: The Last Holiday
The director: Wayne Wang
The stars: Queen Latifah, Gerard Depardieu, LL Cool J
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Brooks finds comedy in ‘Muslim World’
The movie: Looking For Comedy In The Muslim World
The director: Albert Brooks
The stars: Albert Brooks, John Carroll Lynch, Sheetal Sheth, Jon Tenney
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THE IMBIBER
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The Imbiber put in a call earlier this week to a representative from Diageo, parent company of Guinness and Bailey’s Original Irish Cream, two of the three ingredients used to make that most leg-wobbling of grog shop concoctions, the Car Bomb.
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THE IMBIBER
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Usually, it isn’t difficult for your Imbiber to predict the future when I’m out drinking beer, since my nights on the town almost always involve some sort of ugly altercation outside a bar followed the next day by the nagging thought that I was somehow responsible.
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On closer inspection, ‘Pink’ remake stinks
The movie: The Pink Panther
The director: Shawn Levy
The stars: Steve Martin, Kevin Kline, Beyonce Knowles, Emily Mortimer
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Action star Ford appears ready for new vehicles
The movie: Firewall
The director: Richard Loncraine
The stars: Harrison Ford, Virginia Madsen, Paul Bettany
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Death quite becoming
The movie: Final Destination
The director: James Wong
The stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman
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‘Through the Fire’ hits nothing but net
The movie: Through the Fire: The Sebastian Telfair Story
The director: Jonathan Hock
The star: Sebastian Telfair
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‘Free’ at last: Unoriginal thriller tests viewer patience
The movie: Freedomland
The director: Joe Roth
The stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Edie Falco
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Anti-Nazi heroine irresistible
The movie: Sophie Scholl — The Final Days
The director: Marc Rothemund
The stars: Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Alexander Held
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‘Eight’ proves more than enough
The movie: Eight Below
The director: Frank Marshall
The stars: Paul Walker, Jason Biggs, Bruce Greenwood, Moon Bloodgood
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Only one side to the story
The movie: Trudell
The director: Heather Rae
The stars: John Trudell, Robert Redford, Bonnie Raitt, Val Kilmer
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Tsotsi’ role proves worthy of its Oscar buzz accolades
The movie: Tsotsi
The director: Gavin Hood
The stars: Presley Chweneyagae, Mothusi Magano, Terry Pheto
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A man’s search for self
The movie: Unknown White Male
The director: Rupert Murray
The star: Doug Bruce
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Win-win situation: Picking the Oscars
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Columnist Dan Dunn supplies his predictions of Oscar night.
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‘Failure to Launch’ fails to hit the three 'Cs’
The movie: Failure to Launch
The director: Tom Dey
The stars: Matthew McConaughey, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Bates, Terry Bradshaw
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Ask the cheese
The movie: Ask the Dust
The director: Robert Towne
The stars: Salma Hayek, Colin Farrell, Donald Sutherland
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Wait for the snap in ‘Evil’
The movie: Evil
The director: Mikael Hafström
The stars: Andreas Wilson, Henrik Lundström, Linda Zilliacus
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With dogged determination
The movie: The Shaggy Dog
The director: Brian Robbins
The stars: Tim Allen, Robert Downey Jr., Kristin Davis
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‘Guilty’ is a pleasure, despite its girth
The movie: Find Me Guilty
The director: Sidney Lumet
The stars: Vin Diesel, Peter Dinklage, Ron Silver, Annabella Sciorra, Alex Rocco
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‘Smoking’ comes highly recommended
The movie: Thank You for Smoking
The director: Jason Reitman
The stars: Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Cameron Bright, William H. Macy, Katie Holmes, Rob Lowe, Robert Duvall
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THE IMBIBER
Q: Why did God invent Guinness?
A: So that the Irish would never rule the world!
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Moss grows fat on a Rolling Stone biopic
The movie: Stoned
The director: Stephen Woolley
The stars: Leo Gregory, Paddy Considine, Monet Mazur, David Morrissey
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Buscemi shows some character as director
The movie: Lonesome Jim
The director: Steve Buscemi
The stars: Casey Affleck, Liv Tyler, Mary Kay Place, Seymour Cassel
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‘L’Enfant’ leaves one waiting ... and wanting
The movie: L’Enfant
The director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
The stars: Jérémie Renier, Déborah Francois
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Beastie Boys put fans behind camera
The movie: Awesome: I F--in’ Shot That!
The director: Horatio Hornblower (aka Adam Yauch)
The stars: The Beastie Boys
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‘Basic’ basically bites
The movie: Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction
The director: Michael Caton-Jones
The stars: Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, David Thewlis, Charlotte Rampling
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Johnson’s ‘Brick’ refreshing, innovative
The movie: The Brick
The director: Rian Johnson
The stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas, Emilie de Ravin, Nora Zehetner
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‘Devil and Daniel Johnston’ delivers
The movie: The Devil and Daniel Johnston
The director: Jeff Feuerzeig
The stars: Daniel Johnston
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Ensemble cast is just too cute
The movie: Lucky Number Slevin
The director: Paul McGuigan
The stars: Josh Hartnett, Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis, Lucy Liu, Sir Ben Kingsley, Stanley Tucci
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Having fun with Aniston’s ‘Friends’
The movie: Friends with Money
The director: Nicole Holofcener
The stars: Jennifer Aniston, Catherine Keener, Frances McDormand, Joan Cusack
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Cheeky charm keeps ‘On a Clear Day’ afloat
The movie: On a Clear Day
The director: Gaby Dellal
The stars: Peter Mullan, Brenda Blethyn, Ron Cook
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‘Kinky Boots’ start to fray
The movie: Kinky Boots
The director: Julian Jarrold
The stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Joel Edgerton, Sarah-Jane Potts, Nick Frost
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Where ‘Wild’ things lack real bite
The movie: The Wild
The director: Steve “Spaz” Williams
The stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Eddie Izzard, James Belushi, Janeane Garofalo
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Stereotypes abound in ‘Dreamz’
The movie: American Dreamz
The director: Paul Weitz
The stars: Hugh Grant, Mandy Moore, Dennis Quaid, Chris Klein, Marcia Gay Harden, Willem Dafoe, Jennifer Coolidge
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‘Sentinel’ stars shoot blanks
The movie: The Sentinel
The director: Clark Johnson
The stars: Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Basinger, Eva Longoria
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‘Standing’ room not enough
The movie: Standing Still
The director: Matthew Cole Weiss
The stars: Jon Abrahams, Colin Hanks, Mena Suvari, James Van Der Beek, Lauren German, Amy Adams, Ethan Embry
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‘93’ wounds slow to heal
The movie: United 93
The director: Paul Greengrass
The stars: David Alan Bashe, Trish Gates, Ben Sliney
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‘Akeelah and The Bee’ goes to head of the class among recent rash of speller flicks
The movie: Akeelah and The Bee
The director: Doug Atchison
The stars: Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Keke Palmer
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Cruise no couch potato
The movie: Mission Impossible III
The director: JJ Abrams
The stars: Tom Cruise, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Michelle Monaghan, Ving Rhames, Billy Crudup
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Cruising for a bruising
The movie: Poseidon
The director: Wolfgang Petersen
The stars: Josh Lucas, Emmy Rossum, Kurt Russell, Richard Dreyfus, Jacinda Barrett
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Director channels his inner Peckinpah
The movie: Down in the Valley
The director: David Jacobson
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2006 Summer Preview
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Film Critic Dan Dunn previews the summer movie season
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2006 Summer Preview (Part 2)
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Film Critic Dan Dunn previews the summer movie season
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Charmed, I’m sure
Movie: A Prairie Home Companion
Director: Robert Altman
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Blood brothers
The movie: Lower City
The director: Sergio Machado
The stars: Alice Braga, Lazaro Ramos, Wagner Moura
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Words to wise
The movie: Wordplay
The director: Patrick Creadon
The stars: Will Shortz, Bill Clinton, Jon Stewart, Bob Dole, Mike Mussina, The Indigo Girls
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Fun and ‘Furious’
The movie: The Fast and the Furious
The director: Justin Lin
The stars: Lucas Black, Bow Wow, Brian Tee, Sung Kang
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Begrudging ‘Nacho’
The movie: Nacho Libre
The director: Jared Hess
The stars: Jack Black, Ana de la Reguera, Héctor Jiménez, Richard Montoya
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A filmmaker goes own way
The movie: The Outsider
The director: Nicholas Jarecki
The stars: James Toback, Woody Allen, Robert Downey Jr., Neve Campbell, Mike Tyson, Brett Ratner, Brooke Shields
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