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Machetes are not something you expect to find on hard-scrabble southern farms. But there they inexplicably are, and the adorable little Cox brothers are in the habit of fencing with them on soft-focus summer days - until, accidentally, Dewey cuts his saintly sibling in two with his blade...
...recent biopics about the trials and triumphs of pop-music icons. These movies, ritualistically recycling their subjects' most famous hits and their more infamous falls from behavioral grace, provide the last sentimental postscripts to their subjects' celebrity arcs. They have for years deserved parody, and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is that long-awaited - by me, at least - of comic commentary on breathless mythomania. Not since This is Spinal Tap have I had such a good time watching amiable idiocy stumble on toward uncertain glory...
...taken seriously, some of the countries that have established huge SWFs, such as China and Russia, are not necessarily "friendlies, as far as the West is concerned," as a Democratic staffer on a key House committee overseeing international trade puts it. Even U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox, an avowed free trader, has acknowledged that government investment funds could use "the vast amounts of covert information" their spy agencies collect, making it "the ultimate inside-trading tool...
...made us laugh as a diehard NASCAR-driver in “Talladega Nights” and made us cry as a sensitive cop in “Magnolia.” But in his new film, Jake Kasdan’s “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story,” he wants to make us sing. In “Walk Hard,” Reilly shows off his musical talents for the first time since 2002’s “Chicago,” playing fictional rock-and-roll legend Dewey Cox...
...insipid snots that haunt the arcade in the lobby of your local theater. So the quality of Apatow’s work only means so much to its intended audience. But is the film any good? That’s trickier.“Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” plays exactly what you’d expect: another ironically hyperbolic tall-tale comedy that happens to poke fun at other movies…just without Will Ferrell. Reilly can field jokes as Dewey Cox, the loveable dolt who happens to be a musical genius, and his demeanor...