Benjamin Spacek
Story Archive
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Film
Lonely Are the Brave
Thursday, July 30, 2009 Often cited as Kirk Douglas’ favorite of his own films, Lonely Are the Brave gets a new chance to reach audiences with its debut on DVD this month.
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Reviews
17 Again
Thursday, April 16, 2009 17 Again plays much like Big in reverse, with a touch of It’s a Wonderful Life plus a wish-granting old janitor thrown in for good measure.
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Film
Alien Trespass
Thursday, April 2, 2009 California astronomer Ted Lewis (McCormack) tracks a fiery object to its crash site, where he discovers an alien spacecraft and a giant one-eyed, tentacled slug in Alien Trespasses.
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Friday the 13th
Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009 The original 1980 Friday the 13th achieved massive success by ripping off elements from Halloween, Psycho and Carrie. The new Friday the 13th seems content to merely cannibalize itself.
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Reviews
Marley & Me
Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2008 It’s a dog movie. If you’ve ever owned a dog—or seen another dog movie, for that matter—there is nothing in Marley & Me that will surprise you.
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Film
What Just Happened
Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008 What Just Happened is not so much a movie about movies as it is a movie about filmmakers bickering and arguing.
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Reviews
Nights in Rodanthe
Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008 Unfaithfulco-stars Gere and Lane re-team for this adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel about two troubled souls who spend a weekend alone in a North Carolina inn.
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Film
Death Race
Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008 Anderson showed a satirical edge in his 1994 debut, Shopping, but brings his video-game sensibilities to this belated remake of Death Race 2000.
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Film
Brideshead Revisited
Thursday, July 31, 2008 It’s no secret that this adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s celebrated novel originally had David Yates at the helm, while Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly and Jude Law were attached to star. Yates left to direct the remaining entries in the Harry Potter franchise, and the three leads were recast.
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Life imitates art
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Audience response and the entertainment value of documentaries
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CineVegas 2008
The Black List: Volume One
Monday, June 16, 2008 Your reaction to The Black List will depend largely on your expectations for documentary filmmaking, though it’s difficult to imagine anyone not being at least intrigued and entertained by it.
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CineVegas 2008
She Unfolds By Day
Sunday, June 15, 2008 Director Rolf Belgum has a curious eye, and a curious imagination, so it stands to reason that She Unfolds By Day is a curious film. Ostensibly, it’s a documentary about dealing with his mother’s battle with Alzheimer’s. Except that it isn’t.
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CineVegas 2008
Cochochi
Saturday, June 14, 2008 After graduating from elementary school, two Mexican brothers are sent on an errand to deliver medicine to some relatives. They disobey their grandfather by taking his horse for the journey. Along the way they get lost; then they lose the horse and, finally, each other. The boys (and the audience) spend the rest of the movie searching.
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Film
Young @ Heart
Thursday, May 8, 2008 Despite its title, Young @ Heart has nothing to do with Frank Sinatra.