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Scott Marks 2:48 p.m., May 23
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Fool me once...
If you’ve already had your fill of illusory summer movie magic, why not set aside the comic books and spend some time watching the Iron Man of misrepresentation. In the hands of crackerjack conjurer Ricky ...
Boldly going nostalgic
Star Trek into Darkness is a showcase for director J.J. Abrams at his most J.J. Abrams-y. Do you identify Abrams by his fondness for lens flares? You will not be disappointed. Lens Flare spends enough ...
Gatsby née Gatz
Anyone who’s seen the screamy, thudding trailers for Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby knows that it is not a paint-by-numbers cinematic re-presentation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s elegant, economic novel. The numbers are there, of course: ...
POP ThursdayMuseum of Photographic ArtsThursday, May 23, 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. |
The Resurrection of a BastardOcean Beach PlayhouseThursday, May 23, 7:30 p.m. |
Vegetarian CannibalOcean Beach PlayhouseThursday, May 23, 9:45 p.m. |
Desert RidersOcean Beach PlayhouseFriday, May 24, 10:45 a.m. |
The Khmer Rouge and the Man of Non-ViolenceOcean Beach PlayhouseFriday, May 24, 12:45 p.m. |
The Cranes Are Flying is a groundbreaking movie that escaped the Soviet’s relentless orthodoxy to celebrate individuality during war. The stunning Tatiana Samoilova is Veronika, a girl in love with a soldier. A simple story ...
Matthew Vaughn, producer of Snatch and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, tries his own hand at directing one of these tough and tricksy British crime thrillers: a brutal cutie. Well played by Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, George Harris, Kenneth ...
Sorrow and pity for the whole human race, or at least the English race, courtesy of the magnanimous Michael Winterbottom (Butterfly Kiss, Jude, Welcome to Sarajevo). He, at the outset, draws a circle around a diverse and disconnected group of ...
A bush-league hockey team seems a likely prospect for one of George Roy Hill's buddy-buddy movies, but Nancy Dowd's script gives it a different slant. Under her jaundiced eye, the male characters are fair game for mockery — their swinging ...