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...unrequited love triangle. Plain, earnest pub worker Ella (Sally Hawkins) pines for naive, literary barman Bob (Bryan Dick), who in turn pines for Jenny (Zo Tapper), a streetwalker who pines for her former self, her lost opportunities and her ability to love. Streets is a keen-eyed, elegantly acted noir drama of heartbreak in alleys and darkened movie houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: 6 Choice Imports To Catch | 1/15/2006 | See Source »

...shiny, shallow creatures, furloughed from reality for all time. Billionaires are even more removed, nestled atop fantastic wealth where they never again have to place their own calls or defrost dinner or fly commercial. So Bono spends several thousand dollars at a restaurant for a nice Pinot Noir, and Bill Gates, the great predator of the Internet age, has a trampoline room in his $100 million house. It makes you think that if these guys can decide to make it their mission to save the world, partner with people they would never otherwise meet, care about causes that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Good Samaritans | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...stars like Bruce Willis and Mickey Rourke, and a style so rich and lurid it ought to be illegal, Robert Rodriguez has perfected a system that is to old-fashioned filmmaking what Grand Theft Auto is to your father's Oldsmobile. The movie's pretty good too: a gnarly noir nightmare in four parts, which the unrated DVD presents with added footage and a zillion natty extras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 12 Delights of Christmas | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...ideal setting for class animosity and intrigue in the lightly lethal spirit of Kind Hearts and Coronets. There's sultry chemistry between the leads: Rhys-Meyers, who has the pouty sensuality of a Jude Law left out to spoil, and Johansson, with the humid allure of a classic noir blond. When they get to canoodling and conniving, you won't ask for your money back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Offer A Bird's-Eye View of the Big, the Bad and the Barest Movies of the Holidays | 12/11/2005 | See Source »

...four segments of “Haute,” the Vestis Council’s fall fashion show, promise to accommodate a wide range of periods and genres, from Edwardian lace and velvet to the trenchcoats of film noir...

Author: By Marianne F. Kaletzky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Haute | 12/1/2005 | See Source »

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