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Perez Hilton Picks a Fight
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Poisoned Well
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A Felony with That Croqueta?
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Che Guevara Who?
Cubans get pissed, an artist gets even, and the supreme prosecutor of the Cuban revolution gets booted from Dadeland.
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A Pregnant Pause (12)
Drink heavily and don't worry. That baby will be fine.
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Sour Milk (7)
Tennessee Williams gets walloped in the Design District.
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Carbonell Cold Shoulder (7)
We're all losers at South Florida's biggest awards show.
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Poisoned Well (6)
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Some Country for Old Men
Seniors Scorsese and the Stones together again.
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Cop Out
Boys will be boys in Street Kings' shallow look at dirty police.
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Apolitical Theater
Iraq War movie Stop-Loss does its best not to mention the war.
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Not Taylor-Made
Owen Wilson is a bad fit for an ass-kicking bodyguard.
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Sad Sack Extraordinaire
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Subject(s): Shawn Ashmore, Jena Malone, Jonathan Tucker, The Ruins
If you turn the first page of Scott Smith's The Ruins, a friend said astutely, you won't put it down — but if you know what it's about beforehand, you won't pick it up. So let's just say that if this reworking never approximates the abandon-all-hope ferocity of Smith's hair-whitening source novel, it's still a superior shocker with a mood-altering edge of hallucinatory madness. In an absurdist setup that resembles Beckett by way of EC Comics, five tourists (four American, one German) are forced atop a remote Mayan temple, where they face two options: a quick death from armed villagers who've surrounded the site, or a slow death from the snaky, insatiable tendrils of the ruins' entrenched resident. What follows is a study in situational ethics, destabilized group dynamics, and existential panic, as each new choice between the lesser of two evils only brings greater evils. Though Smith adapted his own book, the briskly paced, neatly telescoped movie is too short to recapture its grinding psychological devastation, leaving a gory but strangely slight allegory of America's dependence on creature comforts. But first-time feature director Carter Smith, working with resourceful cinematographer Darius Khondji, pulls off the neat trick of using the wide screen to claustrophobic effect. And the actors give such a convincing display of starvation-fueled fear that they deserve their own private craft service table.
Any movie about bisexual, gay or lesbian? I know many movies, plays, etc. about bisexual. Not sure if the director will request the real bisexual for the role, or the straight? If the straight, how can they know the life of bisexual? And after playing the bisexuao role, will they become bisexual or bicurious? I know many bicurious and real bisexual on the site BiLoves, which is a site for bisexuals and bicurious looking to explore their sexuality.
Comment by karen — April 11, 2008 @ 11:13AM