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'Illtown'
Times Staff WriterIn 1991, writer-director Nick Gomez made a terrific debut with "Laws of Gravity," an ultra-realistic tale of three blue-collar Brooklyn thieves. He followed it up in 1995 with the less effective but worthy "New Jersey Drive," about some Newark young...Tags: Tony Danza, Lili Taylor, Isaac Hayes, Juvenile Delinquency, Cinema Industry
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Palmetto
FOR THE TIMESFriday February 20, 1998 It must be hard being considered something of a legend as a serious filmmaker and never getting a piece of the commercial pie that is shared so generously with the most hackneyed studio directors. It's enough to drive a...Tags: Woody Harrelson, Gunter Grass, Entertainment, Sony Corp., Cinema Industry
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Kicked in the Head
FOR THE TIMESFriday September 26, 1997 For a filmmaker to use the Hindenburg as a recurring motif, he might as well call his movie "Kicked in the Head." It's like saying, "Go ahead. Hit me." If you insist. "Kicked in the Head" is director-writer...Tags: Entertainment, Martin Scorsese, Crimes, Lower East Side, Matthew Harrison
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Deep Blue Sea
TIMES FILM CRITICWednesday July 28, 1999 A liquid to rely on, water is right there when we're hot, when we're thirsty, when we want things to grow. But who speaks up for water's dark side, for its implacable force, the terrifying power of its raging torrents?...Tags: Aquatica, Plastic Surgeons, Entertainment, Cinema Industry, Crimes
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The 6th Day
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday November 17, 2000 Hollywood, which has been cloning action-adventure movies for years, has gotten around to making an action-adventure movie about cloning. It's called "The 6th Day," and whom does it star? Arnold Schwarzenegger. Twice. ...Tags: Robert Duvall, John Wayne, Family, Entertainment, John Sayles
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Bamboozled
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday October 6, 2000 "Bamboozled" is a defining film for Spike Lee. Not because it's necessarily his best work as a writer-director--though it is up there--but because it feels like his most characteristic, shedding a powerful light on the core...Tags: Mos Def, Racism, HBO (tv network), Entertainment, Cinema Industry
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Lucky Numbers
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday October 27, 2000 In the clever and diverting dark comedy "Lucky Numbers," John Travolta's Russ Richards is the king of all he surveys--even if it isn't much of a kingdom. He's an ebullient Harrisburg, Pa., TV weatherman, and his throne is his...Tags: Daryl Mitchell, Lifestyle and Leisure, Entertainment, Andrew Lazar, Cinema Industry
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Men of Honor
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday November 10, 2000 In 1948, Harry Truman ended segregation in the armed forces, but it did not fade away overnight any more than it did in other American institutions. What Jackie Robinson endured in breaking the color line in baseball and...Tags: Billy Sunday, Harry Houdini, Entertainment, African Americans, Social Issues
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'Dr. Dolittle 2'
Times Film CriticThis is turning into Eddie Murphy's creature feature summer, but if you had to pick between the actor playing an animal or simply talking to them, "Dr. Dolittle 2" is not the film to choose. Yet even if it wasn't burdened with an addiction to...Tags: Wildlife, Plastic Surgeons, Entertainment, Hugh Lofting, Sicilian Mafia
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In a word...
A "love-hate" relationship exists between African-American actor Chi McBride and the "N-word," the vilest epithet for his race. "I go through periods in my life where I use the word, and I go though periods in life where I swear the word off completely,...Tags: David E. Kelley, Loretta Devine, African-American History Month, Family, Entertainment
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'A Good Night to Die'
Times Staff Writer"A Good Night to Die" is a great movie to miss. It is the latest smudged carbon of "Pulp Fiction," mistaking sentimentality for wit and drawing from other movies rather than reality. The result is lifeless, numbskull nonsense that gets not only...Tags: Chris Williams, Ally Sheedy, Lainie Kazan, Entertainment, Deborah Harry
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Movie review: 'Hitch'
TRIBUNE MOVIE CRITIC2 stars (out of 4) Will Smith looks great in the previews for "Hitch." But in life or romance, you can't judge books by their covers or movies by their trailers. In the seemingly ubiquitous ads for this flashy new romantic comedy, we see Smith playing a...Tags: Eva Mendes, Adam Arkin, Matthew Perry, Alexander Payne, Entertainment
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