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Supernova
TIMES STAFF WRITERMonday January 17, 2000 "Supernova" isn't so super, which is no doubt why MGM opened it Friday without early press previews. Despite the distinctive presences of James Spader, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster and Lou Diamond Phillips and a great high-...Tags: Angela Bassett, Wilson Cruz, Science Fiction (genre), Peter Facinelli, James Spader
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'Alien' (1979)
Times Staff WriterOf all the monsters to go bump in the endless night of the movies, few have been as wonderfully frightening as the creature from "Alien." Designed by the Swiss artist H.R. Giger and first unleashed by director Ridley Scott in 1979, the extraterrestrial...Tags: John Hurt, Science Fiction (genre), Tom Skerritt, Ridley Scott, William Friedkin
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'Undisputed'
Times Staff WriterWalter Hill's "Undisputed," a boxing/prison picture as smart as it is brawny, shows what seasoned Hollywood pros can still accomplish without pretensions and overwhelming special effects. "Undisputed" is a compelling entertainment because of Hill and co-...Tags: Ving Rhames, Punishment, Master P, Rape, Peter Falk
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Movie review, 'Undisputed'
Walter Hill makes action and crime movies that are always smart and good-looking but often a little artificial. His latest, "Undisputed," takes place in the same noirish wonderland -- half hip and tough, half cartoonish -- that we often see in Hill...Tags: Ving Rhames, Punishment, Peter Falk, Fisher Stevens, Robert Aldrich
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2001 All-Metro Football Team - Offense
Sun staffPlayer of the Year: Joe Benson, McDonogh There was plenty of pressure on Benson and lots of questions to be answered - all because of what he did as a first-year starting quarterback last fall. Last season, he led the Eagles through an unbeaten season,...Tags: Baltimore Ravens, Ray Lewis, Lacrosse, Football, Philadelphia Eagles
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'Daddy Day Care'
Times Staff WriterEvery so often a comedy comes along that's so flat, pointless and grimly unfunny that you have to ask yourself: What in the world happened to Eddie Murphy's career? First there was Walter Hill's "48 HRS.," still one of the best, most diverting and only...Tags: Showtime (tv network), Larry David, Chris Rock, Celebrities, Career and Workplace
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Back to abnormal
Sun Movie CriticThink of John Waters as a racy Wizard of Oz. Generations of American storytellers have chronicled provincial misfits and artists leaving their homes and finding their true colors in Los Angeles, New York or San Francisco. But Waters does the reverse,...Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Shoulders, Infants, Culture, Cinema Industry
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'Housewives,' 'Lost' Get Directors' Nods
LOS ANGELES - The freshman hit series "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost" earned nominations Wednesday from the Directors Guild of America. "Desperate Housewives," a sexy, satiric take on life in suburbia, received bids in the comedy series category for...Tags: The Sopranos (tv program), Motorvehicle Accidents, Hospitals and Clinics, Entertainment, J.J. Abrams
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Movie review: 'Alien vs. Predator'
Tribune Movie Critic1-1/2 stars (out of 4) Two sci-fi movie legends, the Slime Goddess of "Alien" and the invisible killer-warriors of "Predator," wage bloody warfare in "Alien vs. Predator," and, as the ads are quick to remind us, "Whoever wins, we lose." You can say that...Tags: Death, Tommy Flanagan, Science Fiction (genre), Ridley Scott, Ewen Bremner
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Movie review: 'We Don't Live Here Anymore'
Tribune Movie Critic3 stars (out of 4) Adultery, that most dangerous game of America's intellectual classes, is the subject of "We Don't Live Here Anymore," a chamber drama based on two of Andre Dubus' short stories and directed with finesse by John Curran. Curran has a...Tags: Clint Eastwood, Peter Krause, Mark Ruffalo, Entertainment, Ingmar Bergman
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'Alien vs. Predator'
Times Staff WriterIn Paul W.S. Anderson's "Alien vs. Predator," two famously nasty extraterrestrial species (and 20th Century Fox franchises) are pitted against each other in a heated battle royale to control a large, Rubik's Cube-like pyramid in Antarctica, 2,000 feet...Tags: Death, Archaeology, Ewen Bremner, Entertainment, Jesse Ventura
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'Alien: The Director's Cut' remains fabulously frightening
Tribune staff reporter"Alien: The Director's Cut" is an old nightmare, made shiny new. It's a scream from another era that still echoes around us. Director Ridley Scott's new, digitally refurbished and re-edited version of his 1979 pop science-fiction hit -- the subzero tale...Tags: Death, Jerry Goldsmith, Ridley Scott, Tom Skerritt, James Cameron
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