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Other points about “The Hours”

November 10th, 2006 ~ Movies I liked or didn't

Well, I just commented that this really is a good movie in spite of my criticism below, and as if to make my point, I find that there are lots of little odds and ends about it that seemed worthy of their own blog entry. How’s that for an endorsement?
(In case it needs to be […]

“The Hours” — Depression in movies

November 9th, 2006 ~ Movies I liked or didn't

I recently rented “The Hours” from Netflix. It’s an elegant, poignant weaving together of three women’s lives — Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) circa 1921, a Los Angeles housewife named Laura Brown (Julianne Moore) circa 1951 and a New York editor named Clarissa Vaughn (Meryl Streep) circa 2001.
I’m not going to try to do a decent […]

Twenty good minutes out of “King Kong”

May 12th, 2006 ~ Movies I liked or didn't

I finally rented the DVD of the recent “King Kong,” and I’ll say what a reviewer said about “Mission Impossible III” — it’s not as terrible as you think.
As I remarked back here, I felt somewhat vindicated when this latest “Kong” didn’t do as well at the box office as projected. I won’t go over […]


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