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Disney’s first fully computer generated in-house animated feature opens next Friday, and in a Fall season that seemingly brings with it a new disappointment each and every week, I have to consider this little gem a breath of fresh air. I won’t dip into hyperbole here. “Chicken Little” is what it is: a swift animated […]
Entries from October 2005
SHORT TAKE: “Chicken Little” (***)
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:08 pm · October 29th, 2005
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REVIEW: “Jarhead” (**1/2)
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:47 am · October 21st, 2005
Sam Mendes’s “Jarhead” makes no immediate attempt to connect you to its central character. It makes no attempt to pump emotion and empathy into the veins of the audience. It falls in line with Mendes’ penchant for colder, more removed depictions, and it’s potentially the material that most suits this penchant that the director has […]
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SHORT TAKE: “Hustle & Flow” (***1/2)
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:53 am · October 19th, 2005
I was finally able to catch Craig Brewer’s acclaimed “Hustle & Flow” last night at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood. The film was the opening installment of this year’s Movie City News Screening Series. Much hullabaloo has been made this year of Terrence Howard’s breakout work in both this and Paul Haggis’s “Crash,” […]
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SHORT TAKE: “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” (***1/2)
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:33 pm · October 16th, 2005
Shane Black’s “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” is surprisingly fun, excitingly catty and ultimately one of the greatest guilty pleasure film experiences of the year. Based in part on Brett Halliday’s novel “Dead Bodies Are Where You Find Them” – about which I must confess I am entirely ignorant and therefore have no basis for commentary […]
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REVIEW: “Good Night, and Good Luck.” (***1/2)
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:40 pm · October 4th, 2005
I see many films each year. I write about most of them. But rarely do I feel the need to rush home and pour my thoughts and perspective into a column immediately. Such was the case with “Good Night, and Good Luck.” The subject of Edward R. Murrow and his valiant stand against McCarthy Era […]
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INTERVIEW: Gong Li
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:39 am · October 3rd, 2005
Chinese actress Gong Li is poised to explode onto the landscape of the American movie scene. An international star and a staple of contemporary Asian cinema for nearly twenty years, Gong has offered awards-caliber work with performances in Kaige Chen’s Farewell My Concubine and former beau Zhang Yimou’s Raise the Red Lantern and Shanghai Triad, […]
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