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Big box office greets one of modern film's most popular characters. Meanwhile, another modern film classic is tapped for a big Hollywood reboot in this round of Personalities in Brief. First up, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" finds its cauldron boiling over in a smashing opening day.Big box office greets one of modern film's most popular characters. Meanwhile,... more
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Just for the record, I have nothing against Michael Bay as a matter of principle. I find some of his films fun, if almost always aggressively ADD. But particularly in the summer season, even under the best of conditions, one can begin to long for genre films that deliver a little something more than just the big-bang-boom.
Director Duncan Jones has sought to deliver an alternative in MOON. Reaching back to the more idea-powered films of the seventies and eighties, he tells the tale of a lone caretaker of an automated, industrial moonbase whose countdown to the day when he’ll return to Earth is thrown off-course by a sudden accident and an abrupt encounter with his own clone. Featuring Sam Rockwell as the only significant on-screen actor and Kevin Spacey as the voice of moonbase’s ambivalent computer Gerty, MOON does deliver the occasional boom, but leavens it with intriguing ideas and one of the better fade-outs I’ve seen this year.
Jones — the son of David Bowie (more on that in the episode) — was great fun to talk with. Here’s the interview.Just for the record, I have nothing against Michael Bay as a matter of principle. I... more
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Seth Rogen has been box-office gold in the last 2 years and has numerous of projects on the way. Check out the trailers for 2 of his upcoming films.Seth Rogen has been box-office gold in the last 2 years and has numerous of projects... more
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