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...semi-autobiographical tale of rags-to-rap-stardom, promised everything that I look for in a film: drug-dealing, thugged-out raptors (rapper/actor), and a banging hip-hop soundtrack. Unfortunately, the film tells the same story we’ve heard hundreds of times in a manner suggesting that even 50 is bored. Disregarding the fact that “Get Rich” is a Shady/Aftermath production and Marcus (50 Cent) rolls with the same fat dude (Omar Miller) that B. Rabbit runs with in “8 Mile,” comparisons to Eminem?...
...that is moderately entertaining is bound to occur. While some of the skits of the film feel repetitive or uncreative, Silverman’s poise is at least a constant throughout the piece. She is surprisingly calm on stage for all the dynamism of her jokes, and her deadpan manner, which makes her seem almost shocked at herself, is amusing, if not truly hilarious in a few situations. However, even her engaging performance fails to make the film truly memorable, much less “Magic...
...pristine nature that Adams captured so famously in his later work.This gallery also includes a lot of Adams’ early failures, created as he tried to escape the binds of the popular style and the limiting technology of the day. His scenes of grandeur are framed in a manner similar to those that would make him famous—but they are presented with too much contrast and a washed-out sky.Then at last one comes to “Monolith: The Face of Half Dome, 1927,” which the museum bills as Adams’ great...
...shock; Colombus is the auteur behind the “Home Alone” series.Columbus never devises a satisfactory way to translate the conventions of musical theatre into the cinematic idiom: “Rent” doesn’t embrace its show-tune cheesiness in the manner of Rob Marshall’s “Chicago,” nor does it opt for cinematic seriousness like Bille August’s “Les Miserables.” Either would have been preferable to Columbus’ middle-of-the-road approach...
...Others have very different concerns. Lucire wants the TGA to write to every G.P. in the country - in the manner of the drug companies - telling them to recall all their SSRI patients and check them for side effects. Jureidini is worried that doctors with links to the drug industry - as consultants or advisers - may be influencing TGA policy on psychiatric drugs. The obligation to disclose isn't there in this case, and that is "out of step with worldwide practice," he says...