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By Jenni Wei | February 11, 2010Helen Mirren lifts an otherwise unremarkable literary adaptation out of the bleak Russian winter.
Helen Mirren lifts an otherwise unremarkable literary adaptation out of the bleak Russian winter.
Terry Gilliam’s latest film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, is a phantasmagorical morality tale set in modern-day London, but its prosaic hodgepodge plot is all over the map.
Largely improvised by the student actors, The Lower D’s jumps off from the British script with non-PC dialogue, intermittent musical numbers and assorted musings on the human condition.
Conceived after Hurricane Katrina, Duke Performances is presenting the CTH's unique production of Godot this weekend in Reynolds Theater.
Paranormal Activity is another cog in the genre-wheel of the docu-horror flick: recession-chic, producer-friendly and, in this case, viewer-boring.
Towards the end of Jane Campion’s exquisite new period film Bright Star, the Romantic poet John Keats beseeches his talented beloved, “We must cut the threads.”
As it turns out, actually watching the film doesn’t help much either. Perhaps the hodgepodge storyline is embodied by Mary’s personal style—she lugs around a bright umbrella for much of the film,...