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Eat Pray Love
Written by Alex Sukhoy Wednesday, 11 August 2010 23:02 Directed by Ryan Murphy (“Glee”), “Eat Pray Love” is the film adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s best selling memoir of the same name. The author’s self-admitted “freakish success” of the book resonated...
read more...08.23.2010
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Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Written by Alex Sukhoy “Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore,” the PG rated sequel to the 2001 “Cats and Dogs” original, targets kids with its talking pets, cool gadgets and a decently written premise. Not a cartoon, but, rather, a feature film positioning dogs,...
read more...08.1.2010
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Jonah Hex
Written by Alex Sukhoy Saturday, 19 June 2010 02:36 “Jonah Hex,” based on the DC comic of the same name, focuses on the good deeds of a seemingly bad man. Starring Josh Brolin in the title role, the film, set in 1876, introduces Hex and his complex, dark backgr...
read more...06.25.2010
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Sex and the City 2
Written by Alex Sukhoy Friday, 28 May 2010 01:47 “Sex and the City 2,” the franchise sequel to the 2008 film of the same name, based on the HBO series (1998 – 2004), and which first began with Candace Bushnell’s 1997 novel, picks up the story lines of four familiar ...
read more...05.29.2010
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Gen X in Film: Jagged Little Pill
Written by Alex Sukhoy & Ben Lieblich Tuesday, 25 May 2010 23:19 It all started with a little pill. In 1957, G.D. Searle & Company released Enovid, a medicine that treated menstrual disorders. Shortly thereafter, an epidemic of these disorders broke out as women determined...
read more...05.26.2010
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Extraordinary Measures
Written by Alex Sukhoy Monday, 17 May 2010 00:00 “Extraordinary Measures,” the new film directed by Tom Vaughan (“What Happens in Vegas”) could have been a very common film, yet the honest performances from an extraordinary cast, provide compassion and depth....
read more...05.20.2010
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Edge of Darkness
Written by Alex Sukhoy Tuesday, 11 May 2010 00:00 // “Edge of Darkness,” based on a 1980s British television mini-series of the same name, stars Mel Gibson as Detective Thomas Craven, a father on a mission to find his daughter’s murderer. In Gibson’s first cred...
read more...05.15.2010
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Amanda Pope and Tchavdar Georgiev: An Oasis of Creativity
Written by Alex Sukhoy Tuesday, 04 May 2010 23:19 Amanda Pope and Tchavdar Georgiev, writers, directors, and producers of the film festival darling “The Desert of Forbidden Art,” according to Pope, “specialize in the impossible.” Their documentary about Igor Savitsky, a So...
read more...05.5.2010
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Death at a Funeral
Written by Alex Sukhoy Friday, 16 April 2010 01:45 “Death at a Funeral,” produced by and starring Chris Rock as Aaron, a married man, living in his parents’ house and in charge of planning his father’s at home funeral, resurrects the British comedy of the same name. The or...
read more...04.17.2010
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All Access at the Cleveland International Film Festival
Written by Alex Sukhoy Wednesday, 14 April 2010 01:41 Imagine experiencing Hungary, Finland, France, Russia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Argentina, Germany, India and fifty other countries, all in eleven days. Imagine doing so without having to get a passport, exchange currency or...
read more...04.15.2010
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