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...Bees' Tiburon, S.C. But that was back when most big films tended to serious sentiment. Today, the dominant tone is irreverence, sarcasm, facetiousness. Can a time-capsule movie like this one have any resonance today? Can it find an audience to nurture in the old, noble, now-discredited Hollywood traditions...
...sense for detecting internal ailments. With no signs of exertion, Fanning wills Lily from fictional stereotype into persuasive movie existence. The Secret Life of Bees may not be a To Kill a Mockingbird on page or screen, but Fanning is the center of its soul and intelligence. It's Hollywood's job to find strong parts for this precocious genius as she matures into womanhood...
...movie that promotes fidelity [Oct. 13]. The copy quips, "Don't call it a comeback. Because it's not." I believe it is an important comeback. Fireproof is an independent film that has the potential to help restore relationships and give real hope. When was the last time Hollywood offered that? Michelle Radford, Greenville...
Dutifully, they lined up to Enlist in Liberal Hollywood's answer to the war on terrorism, and one by one, last year's political movies were mowed down by audience indifference. Oscar-winning actors could not lure moviegoers to see Lions for Lambs, In the Valley of Elah or Rendition; viewers figured the films were a cross between a harangue and homework. Not many more people came when producers tried crossbreeding hot-spot intrigue with familiar genres. The Kingdom, a Jamie Foxx action picture set in Saudi Arabia, and Charlie Wilson's War, with Tom Hanks in an upbeat comedy...
...limited notion of karma should, at the very least, earn me a free lunch in the next life. “How to Lose Friends & Alienate People,” the movie adaptation of Toby Young’s memoir, stars Simon Pegg as Sidney Young, an obnoxious, Hollywood-obsessed Brit who lives above a Kebab Palace in London and edits a failing magazine called “The Post Modern Review.” His frequent attempts at party crashing grab the attention of “Sharps” magazine editor Clayton Harding, played by Jeff Bridges...