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...its mid-40s (it made its debut in 1962), the movies' longest-running series faces middle age by both toning up, with the muscular new Casino Royale, and looking back, with this multi-DVD pack of all 20 of the "official" films, with the first five of the superspies. The Bond tropes may be as codified--and believable--as Kabuki, but the films can still shake and stir...
When gangsta rapper The Game released his debut album, “The Documentary,” in early 2005, he was flying high—and not just because of all the chronic he was smoking. With the legendary Dr. Dre as executive producer and 50 Cent and Eminem as featured guests, The Game knew “The Documentary” would go platinum. It sold five million copies worldwide...
...time in the making. After losing Brad Pitt for the lead role and getting a $45 million budget reduction, the film was almost dropped entirely. But, Aronofsky persevered to create something perhaps more transcendent and timeless than one might expect of an independent director’s traumatic Hollywood debut. The film is set in three different time periods, spanning a millenium. Though the official website calls it “an odyssey about one man’s eternal struggle to save the woman he loves,” this is not exactly crystal clear throughout the movie. While...
...Game “Doctor’s Advocate” (Geffen) 3 Stars A year and a half after “The Documentary,” his overhyped-but-solid 2005 debut, The Game has returned, sans G-Unit and Dr. Dre, with “The Doctor’s Advocate,” a soul-draining experience that doesn’t deliver on the promise of his first album’s best songs. Indeed, save for a few bright spots, this album is never more than a guilty pleasure. The Game?...
...spirit, but it’ll get your brain working again after the previous day’s bacchanalian festivities.The Brattle ends its celebration of Janus Films with a bang, pairing the Kurosawa crime drama “High and Low” with Roman Polanski’s debut feature “Knife in the Water,” on Monday, Nov. 20 and Tuesday, Nov. 21, respectively.If you have to see one of the remaining pictures at the Brattle, see “High and Low.” It’s more accessible than other...