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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...film from the producers of “Little Miss Sunshine.” Her cool, collected approach to such absurd proposals—a crime scene cleanup business, in this case—epitomizes what Big Beach Films continues to get right, despite its predictable recipe for indie flick humor.The biohazard removal business shines as a beacon of hope for the film’s lovable, but not particularly successful, sisterly duo. Adams plays a once-popular cheerleader having an affair with her married ex-quarterback, ex-boyfriend Mac (Steve Zahn). Their son Oscar (Jason Spevack) is in desperate...

Author: By Victoria J. Benjamin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sunshine Cleaning | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

From its dark opening scene, Zack Snyder’s “Watchmen” establishes a complex blend of murder mystery, social commentary, and unrepentant action flick. This mood is immediately set as brawny Edward Blake (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) fails to fight off an unidentified attacker in his home. Viewers—assuming they have not read the graphic novel—can only speculate as to the assassin’s identity, but Blake knows, telling his killer that their world is a joke before he is hurled out a high-rise window.Creating this world has required...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Watchmen | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...misery. Oil extraction is poor in Texas, restaurants in San Francisco are doing badly, and the peanut industry - let's not talk about the peanut industry. The Fed predicts things are going to get worse over the next year. Flip through this report, despair, then go watch a Pixar flick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fed Report Shocker: The Economy Is Still Bad | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...solution from Z? Watch a chick flick. That will wipe the emotional scars away...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Around the Ivies | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...Seen today, their work, especially on TV, is startling not just for its inventiveness but for its almost erotic intensity. They worked literally nose to nose: Jerry would snuggle into Dean's shoulder; Dean would flick his cigarette ashes in Jerry's mouth (and lick Jer's face). It was primal therapy on the 12-inch screen, stripping bare a volatile marriage in all its grotesque intimacy - a bizarre comic display of love and resentment. No way it could last. In 1956, 10 years to the day after they had first paid, Martin and Lewis split, In a decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerry Lewis Wins an Oscar at Last | 2/22/2009 | See Source »

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