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'Snow Day'
Times Staff WriterSouthern California exports filmed images of sunshine to the eyeballs of kids around the nation, so it's only fair that snowy upstate New York gets its chance at being the locale of childhood fantasies. However, "Snow Day," a harmless co-...Tags: Emmanuelle Chriqui, Fashion Shows, Entertainment, Movies, Mark Webber
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Agnes Browne
SPECIAL TO THE TIMESFriday December 3, 1999 If Cinderella lived in Dublin, reared seven children and found her Prince Charming in the guise of a doughy French baker, she might resemble Agnes Browne. There is a lovely Cinderella moment in "Agnes Browne,"...Tags: Gerard Depardieu, Death, Harvey Keitel, Cinderella (fictional character), Kate Winslet
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Holy Smoke
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday December 3, 1999 "Holy Smoke," a high-risk, darkly comic triumph, is the most unabashedly outrageous movie Jane Campion has made since her debut, "Sweetie," a decade ago. Like that film's heroine "Holy Smoke's" Ruth is at intense odds with...Tags: Harvey Keitel, Anna Campion, Family, Vincent Perez, Miramax Films
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L'Ennui (Boredom)
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday October 15, 1999 Cedric Kahn's relentless "L'Ennui" is such a rigorous exploration of sexual obsession that it proves to be a most demanding film. Virtually devoid of eroticism and sensuality, it depicts with the utmost realism a 17-year-...Tags: Aaron Paul, Jeffrey Wright, Tom Cruise, Robert De Niro, Bentley
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'Kill Bill Vol. 2'
Times Staff WriterAn adrenaline shot to the movie heart, soul and mind, Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill Vol. 2" is a blast of pure pop pleasure. The second half of Tarantino's long-gestating epic, "Vol. 2" firmly lays to rest the doubts raised by "Vol. 1" as to whether...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, David Carradine, Japan, Miramax Films, Entertainment
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Movie review, 'Undercover Brother'
"Undercover Brother" has such a cheerfully zingy energy that you keep rooting for it even when its jokes turn flatter than a jump shot at a YMCA pickup game. Sending up the blaxploitation films of the 1970s would seem an easy and pointless exercise, but...Tags: Minority Groups, Colin Powell, Basketball, Stevie Wonder, Entertainment
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Flight attendants' image is up in the air
Special to the TribuneMovies are mean to flight attendants. Decades ago, when stewardesses had bawdier reputations, the "Airport" movies, among others, portrayed them as sniveling beauties who slept with their captains. Today, they're icy rule-followers like Ben Stiller's...Tags: Mike Myers, Ben Stiller, Christina Applegate, Quentin Tarantino, Celebrity Parents
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A season ticket to film
"American Pie," "Scary Movie," "Rush Hour" and "Doctor Dolittle" all get second chapters and "Jurassic Park" gets a third, while director Tim Burton puts his own spin on "Planet of the Apes." Unofficial sequels also pop up, like John Singleton's "Baby...Tags: Networking, James Garner, Angela Bassett, Jeff Goldblum, Robert De Niro
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We won't want for wide-screen choices
Yes, this summer you'll have the chance to see a lot of movies, even more than last year, as the studios try to build on last summer's record-breaking grosses while the multiplexes provide more and more screens for them to do so. Have at it. As always,...Tags: Anna Friel, Matthew Lillard, Brian Setzer, Celebrity Parents, Tom Cruise
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Movie review, 'The Adventures of Pluto Nash'
Tribune staff reporterFollowing the tepid "Showtime" and the flat-lined "Dr. Dolittle 2," "Pluto Nash" invokes the three-strikes-and-you're-out rule that, if nothing else, puts Eddie Murphy in underdog status for a third comeback. Here, Murphy stars as the title character,...Tags: Illeana Douglas, Crime, Law and Justice, Dining and Drinking, John Cleese, Eddie Murphy
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Neo-Soul
HOLLYWOOD -- Bring in da noise! Bring in da funk! Bring in Bootsy and Superfly, too. Blaxploitation characters, themes and fashions are alive again in American pop culture. Images and sounds of the '70s urban scene are now flashing across big and...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Lenny Kravitz, Beyonce, Isaac Hayes, Entertainment
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Movie review, 'Austin Powers in Goldmember'
Mike Myers, star and co-writer of "Austin Powers in Goldmember," can create such paroxysms of sheer tastelessness and obnoxiousness that you wonder if he'll survive his own movies. But he does. "Goldmember" is the third of his "Austin Powers" series --...Tags: Mike Myers, Academy Awards, Michael York, Beyonce, Demi Moore
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