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Beauty only skin deep, or is it?
SPOILER WARNING! The following Q&A reveals plot points from "The Stepford Wives" (2004).
SPOILER WARNING! The following Q&A reveals plot points from "The Stepford Wives" (2004).
Q: I just saw "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban." You are not the first person to express concern that the children may soon be too old for their parts. I disagree. The children in the books are growing…
Q. Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" is designed to promote his personal political agenda. On CNN, he said he hoped the movie would get out the anti-Bush vote. Did Moore give even lip service to views opposite his own?
Q. First came the video rental store that cut out the naughty bits. Now, you can get your own DVD player to do it for you! At what point does someone just watch the entire film and judge it for…
Q. I just watched "The Graduate" for a film class and read your article claiming that Mrs. Robinson is the only strong character in the movie and that Benjamin is simply a lost youth.
Q. Yesterday I heard for the first time that "Ripley's Game," released in Europe, would not make the big screens in the U.S. and has gone right to DVD. I bought it yesterday, watched the film last night -- and loved…
I was surprised that your review of "Dawn of the Dead" (2004) was positive. While I agree the first seven minutes of this remake are pure genius, the rest of the movie fell well short of entertaining. The main reason…
Q. At the recent Academy Awards, host Billy Crystal directed a putatively humorous, though cruel, remark at best actor nominee Bill Murray, moments after the Oscar was awarded to Sean Penn. Crystal's remark brought to mind Groucho Marx's comment about comedians…
Q. Was the academy honoring "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" or the entire trilogy with its onslaught of awards? I'm asking because it seems unfair to ask one film to compete against three. The movie deserved…
Q. In the most recent Answer Man, you discussed the fact that Jennifer Connelly is photographed at the end of a dock or pier in "Dark City," "Requiem for a Dream" and "House of Sand and Fog." In a deleted…
