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Anne Hathaway steals 'Verity' whereas Tom Cruise's turn in 'Digger' misfires (opens the original)
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Go big or go home, gamblers like to say. You’re not going to see performances bigger than the villainous turns delivered by two of our most beloved stars in films opening this weekend. After two decades of appearing almost exclusively in action movies, Tom Cruise has finally returned to prestige pictures, donning old age makeup and a prosthetic pot belly to play a blowhard oil tycoon who accidentally ends the world in director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s apocalyptic energy industry satire “Digger.”
'Practical Magic 2' steers away from everything enjoyable about the first film (opens the original)
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The first “Practical Magic” wasn’t a critical or box office success when it was released in 1998, but director Griffin Dunne’s adaptation of Alice Hoffman’s bestseller about a family of modern-day witches in a fictional Massachusetts town has since developed a devoted fanbase on cable and home video. It’s not a great picture, but it’s a fun hang, stressing the sisterly camaraderie of leads Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman while basking unabashedly in their movie star charisma and gazing upon the
'The Third Man' is an 'ideal introduction' to classic cinema (opens the original)
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Back when I used to teach a film appreciation course, the first movie I showed on the first night of class was “The Third Man.” Boasting a wickedly acerbic screenplay by novelist Graham Greene, director Carol Reed’s 1949 masterpiece is an ideal introduction to the wit and sophistication of classic cinema. It may be 77 years old, but there’s nothing musty about the movie — a chatty, propulsive mystery that still crackles with insouciant energy. A couple of years ago, for my nephew’s first visit t
There's a portal at the Coolidge, and it leads to peak Malkovich (opens the original)
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Those in the know tell me that the upcoming “Wild Horse Nine” features John Malkovich’s best performance in decades. The oddball actor stars in writer-director Martin McDonagh’s typically sweary, darkly comic November release as a terminally ill, loose-lipped CIA assassin in the midst of engineering the 1973 Pinochet coup, blabbing to anyone who will listen about some messy business he handled in Dallas a decade before. This is welcome news, as it’s been a long time since Malkovich has had a cha
Somerville Theatre sends off Catherine O'Hara with films, karaoke and wigs (opens the original)
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When Catherine O’Hara died in January at the age of 71, the obituaries all led with “Home Alone.” It’s understandable. Director Chris Columbus’ 1990 holiday staple has become a cultural touchstone even for folks like me who haven’t seen the movie. (Shut up. I was already a teenage film snob by the time it came out and wouldn’t be caught dead going to see a kiddie movie. Not even one with Joe Pesci.) Yet an uncultured heathen like yours truly still recognizes the iconic closeup when O’Hara realiz
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