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...adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is bound to have a gravity about the awful task at hand. Jackson's film has that, but it is also a buoyant experience because the characters are lively and engaging--each actor (especially Wood as Frodo and McKellen as the wizard Gandalf) magically fitting his role--and because the production team put such skill and joy into designing a movie Middle Earth. The landscapes, a cunning mixture of computer images and real New Zealand, bestow a distinct and beguiling personality on each realm...
...heart, Tenenbaums is a tale of dreams deferred, faded genius and the redeeming value of family. The story begins with the union of Royal and Etheline Tenenbaum, parents to a trio of child geniuses: Chas, a child financial wizard who makes his fortune breeding dalmation mice; Richie “the Baumer” Tenenbaum, a teenage tennis champion; and Margot, a famous playwright who wins a Braverman Grant of $50,000 in the fourth grade. But following Royal and Etheline’s separation, two decades of betrayal, failure and disaster erase all trace of the children?...
Nevertheless, there are a few things that put a slight damper on the production. First of all, fans of The Who may not embrace the production’s rendition of “Pinball Wizard.” Though there is nothing particularly wrong or lacking with the staging or singing of the number, the fact that The Who are not performing it, and that the orchestration is altered for the theatrical version, make it less than fulfilling...
...keen follower of the phenomena associated with Harry Potter, Notebook was mildly scandalized by the photo and caption below, which appeared in the pages of our very own magazine. We worried that even a hint of lasciviousness associated with the bespectacled boy wizard could ruin one great AOL Time Warner franchise-in-the-making. (We've got pensions to worry about.) Imagine our consternation when we found that sexual currents have been swirling around Harry's broomstick for years. "Harry had closed his eyes when he felt Draco's lips descend on his once again, and this time indifference fled...
...between fidelity and poetry; the King James version of the Bible had both. But Columbus is content to make a student's copy of the original master portrait. This movie about You-Know-Who is missing a sprinkle of you-know-what: what one dared to expect in a wizard's tale. This is a magic act performed by a Muggle...