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...commendable portrayal of World War I combat. The film is based on the true stories of Americans who joined the Lafayette Escadrille in the French military to train as pilots, before America officially entered the World War I. It focuses on an endearing motley crew including a black professional boxer, a small town klutz, an aspiring hero, and a pudgy New England snob whose father thrusts him into the escadrille after he is expelled, coincidentally, from Harvard. Franco stars as Blaine Rawlings, a Texas farm boy who learns to overcome his idealism as he rockets...

Author: By April B. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Flyboys | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

...inspired by the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail: talking action figures of King Arthur, sirs Bedevere and Robin and girlie-man Prince Herbert; Grim Reaper and killer Rabbit plush toys; "Holy Hand Grenade" and "French fart" T shirts; Black Knight "It's just a flesh wound" boxer shorts; and tickets to Spamalot, the hit musical that Eric Idle (and co-composer John Du Prez) confected from MP&HG nearly 30 years later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pythonostalgia! | 9/26/2006 | See Source »

...what does the world?s worst director do when he gets tired of such revilement? "What any successful filmmaker would do," his press release boasts: challenge his enemies to a boxing match. And so Boll, 41, a former amateur boxer with 10 years experience, has done just that. This weekend, on the set of his newest film Postal-you guessed it, another adaptation of a violent video game, set to open in 2007-he will enter a boxing ring with four Internet film critics, one after another, for a three-round slugfest that he hopes will teach critics a lesson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 'World's Worst Director' Fights Back | 9/23/2006 | See Source »

...Virginia plates. He gets the names of towns wrong when he visits them." Last April, Weldon seemed to go off the deep end when he attacked Sestak for having his daughter's cancer treated in Washington and not in Philadelphia or Delaware. "He's like an out-of-shape boxer," says one of Weldon's friends. "His timing is off. I know he deeply regrets that comment about Sestak's daughter." But Weldon is not the sort to make public concessions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Pennsylvania, it's the Admiral Vs. the Firefighter | 9/17/2006 | See Source »

...Killers Robert Siodmak, Don Siegel  The Ernest Hemingway story, about two tough guys in a diner, is one of the most influential works in American lit; without it, no Pulp Fiction. The 1946 movie expands the action with a long flashback about the gangster's prey, a haunted boxer called Swede (Burt Lancaster in his first movie). The 1964 version has murderous Lee Marvin tangling with the even more venal Ronald Reagan (in his last movie). The set also includes a third film, a short by renegade Soviet auteur Andrei Tarkovsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Classy DVD's From the Criterion Collection | 8/27/2006 | See Source »

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