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Baron Cohen, who will enter his second year hosting an HBO late-night show this summer, usually appears as his alter-ego, “bad boy rapper?...
...Joey" moves Matt LeBlanc's lunkhead character from New York to L.A., introducing "The Sopranos'" Drea deMatteo as his loud-mouthed, gum-snapping sister. (NBC may not be able to match HBO quality-wise, but it's catching up in the derogatory Italian-American-stereotype business!) On the plus side, the script has the kind of nicely set-up jokes you'd expect on "Friends"; in the first scene, Joey gives a long expository spiel about his reasons for moving to L.A. to the cab driver on his ride from the airport (acting auditions, getting close to family...
...does, with impressive sadism. A moderate audience’s sympathies don’t always stay with the vengeance seeker but Scott wants us to care. His actors play their melodramatic roles with a grace that gives what is essentially a well-written straight-to-HBO Rutger Hauer flick a core that Mystic River never achieved. The kidnapping plot is incoherent, but in the end, certain flaws are inherent in every entry in the B-revenge genre. Tony Scott’s latest effort may have as many gaps as The CIA’s last intelligence report...
...successful tragedy than Helgeland’s Mystic River script. Scott’s actors play their melodramatic roles with a grace that Sean Penn did not achieve in that film’s overwrought dinner-theater performance. This decision gives what is essentially a well-written straight-to-HBO Rutger Hauer flick a core that Mystic never achieved. Can you imagine what Christopher Walken would have been in Eastwood’s hands? Here, he underplays his role. Let me repeat that: Walken underplays a role. The last director to manage that tremendous feat was Steven Spielberg in Catch...
...Crucible. Director and professor Bruce Hay envisions the play as a parable of racial intolerance, including a controversial scene from the original script that’s found in the appendix and rarely performed, suggesting racial undertones in the work. Tickets $5 with Harvard I.D. (HBO). 7:30 p.m., with additional Saturday matinee at 2 p.m. Runs through April 24. Ames Courtroom Auditorium, Austin Hall...