MOVIES/TORRANCE: A year of hits… and misses (mostly hits)

MOVIES/TORRANCE: A year of hits… and misses (mostly hits)
My fellow film critic, Sonny Bunch, and I might have very different top 10 lists, but we do agree on one thing: The last year of the first decade of the 21st century wasn’t a good one for movies. Hollywood might not have offered much of interest this year, …
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Very Bad Santa
If a virginal, wound-way-too-tight ballerina discovering her dark side isn’t savage (or hysterical) enough to offset the season’s sugary excesses, check out the little package irreverent Finnish filmmaker Jalmari Helander left under the tree. Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale im…
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Baz Bubbly About Return Of ‘Strictly Ballroom’
Acclaimed filmmaker Baz Luhrmann talks with @ The Movies’ Tim Lammers about the release of his debut film, “Strictly Ballroom,” as a special edition DVD.
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Here’s the Hitch: Hitchens writes a memoir
WASHINGTON (AP) — The coffee is strong, the wine a dry red poured from a tall, swanlike beaker. On a sunny afternoon at his apartment near Dupont Circle, Christopher Hitchens holds up a Marlboro Light between cigar-shaped fingers and discusses the …
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