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Payback
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday February 5, 1999 "Parker steals. Parker kills. It's a living." Or so claimed the paperback blurb copy for the series of drop-dead hard-boiled novels about a nerveless professional criminal that Donald Westlake wrote in the 1960s and '70s...Tags: Anna Karina, Jean-Luc Godard, Maria Bello, Kris Kristofferson, Crime, Law and Justice
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The General
FOR THE TIMESWednesday December 23, 1998 Though he's been dead only four years, Dublin gangster Martin Cahill is taking his place alongside Jesse James, Billy the Kid and Clyde Barrow as movie heroes from the wrong side of the law. Cahill became known as the...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Sony Corp., Crime, Law and Justice, Arts and Culture, Movies
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday March 17, 2000 "Everything seems to be changing all around us." This sentiment is expressed more than once in "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai," and on this thematic level Jim Jarmusch's rueful, funny, deliciously off-kilter new...Tags: Sicilian Mafia, Earth, Wind & Fire (music group), Forest Whitaker, Crime, Law and Justice, Movies
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The Tailor of Panama
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday March 30, 2001 "Entertainments" is the way celebrated British novelist Graham Greene described his clever, sophisticated diversions such as "The Third Man" and "Our Man in Havana," and John Boorman's spiffy film version of spymaster John le...Tags: Harold Pinter, Casablanca (movie), Pierce Brosnan, Graham Greene, Espionage and Intelligence
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All things Potter
Tribune staff reporterClever Muggle (that's a non-magic person), think you know everything about Harry Potter and his wizarding universe? Think again! With "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" coming to theaters Nov. 16, muggles and magicians alike have been clamoring...Tags: Children, J.K. Rowling , Book, Movies, BBC
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Michael Wilmington CLTV reviews
John Boorman's "The General," starring Jon Voight (left) and Brendan Gleeson, is a consummate film portrait of a modern-day thief and the society that produced him -- and, in a weird way, made him a star. "In Dreams" stars Annette Bening as a partly...Tags: Vampires (supernatural entitiess), Anthony Hopkins, Terrence Malick, Brad Pitt, Jon Voight
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No winter doldrums
This is the traditional slow time at the cinemas -- just don't tell the moviegoers, studios and theater owners. After the dismal summer and disappointing fall of 2000, moviegoers finally were offered a selection of movies they liked, and they've been...Tags: Julianne Moore, Matthew McConaughey, Chris Rock, Panama, Jean-Jacques Annaud
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5 films about spies
1. "The Tailor of Panama" 3 1/2 stars A splendid adaptation by John Boorman and John le Carre of the latter's novel about a talkative tailor named Harry Pendel (Geoffrey Rush) and a sleazy intelligence agent named Andy Osnard (Pierce Brosnan) , who drops...Tags: Paul Lukas, Orson Welles, Panama, Honor Blackman, Crimes
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5 films that are knight tales
1. "MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL" (Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones; 1975) 4 stars "You're using coconuts!" . . . "We are the knights who say 'Ni!'" . . . "It's only a flesh wound" . . . "Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!"...Tags: Vanessa Redgrave, Joshua Logan, Audrey Hepburn, Robin Hood, Terry Jones
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5 films that feature Pierce Brosnan
1. AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (Buzz Kulik; 1989) 3 stars Many critics prefer this five-hour BBC-TV British miniseries over Mike Todd's 1956 all-star Oscar-winner, both inspired by the Jules Verne novel of gambler Phileas Fogg's 19th Century bet that he...Tags: Faye Dunaway, Panama, Jules Verne, John Le Carre, BBC
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Top winners from 1987
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in WALL STREET Oaxatal Production; 20th Century Fox William Hurt as Tom Grunick in BROADCAST NEWS 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox Marcello...Tags: Meryl Streep, William Hurt, Glenn Close, Celebrities, Anne Archer
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Top winners from 1972
denotes winner Performance by an actor in a leading role Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone in THE GODFATHER Albert S. Ruddy Production; Paramount Michael Caine as Milo Tindale in SLEUTH Palomar Pictures International Production; 20th Century-Fox...Tags: Laurence Olivier, Geraldine Page, Celebrities, Al Pacino, Liza Minnelli
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