Starring:
Ellen Page, Drew Barrymore, Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig,
Juli…
Review:
After giving the performance of her career in HBO’s Grey
Gardens, Drew Barrymore tackles another killer challenge:
directing. The empowerment theme of women’s roller derby suits her.
Dialing herself back to the supporting role of Smashley Simpson,
Barrymore focuses on Juno star Ellen Page as a teen Texas
BBQ waitress […]

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Starring:
Drew Barrymore, Jessica Lange
Review:
In 1976, the Maysles released a shocking doc about Edith Beale
and her daughter, Little Edie. Relatives of Jackie O, these
aristocrats lived in poverty in a vermin-infested mansion in East
Hampton, New York. On April 18th, HBO debuts its electrifying take
on that story. The script hits a few bumps, but Jessica Lange […]

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Starring:
Seth Rogen, Anna Faris, Michael Pena, Ray Liotta, Collette Wolfe
Review:
“Listen, you fuckers, you screwheads. Here is a man who would
not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the
cunts, the dogs, the filth, the shit.” Those are the thoughts that
flicker through the head of Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle […]

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Starring:
Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer
Connelly,…
Review:
Are women desperate or just desperately stupid? This is the
misogynist question at the core of He’s Just Not That Into
You, a women-bashing tract disguised as a chick flick. I mean
really, will women actually line up this weekend to see themselves
treated as pawns in a man’s stupid game? […]

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Starring:
Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer
Connelly,…
Review:
Are women desperate or just desperately stupid? This is the
misogynist question at the core of He’s Just Not That Into
You, a women-bashing tract disguised as a chick flick. I mean
really, will women actually line up this weekend to see themselves
treated as pawns in a man’s stupid game? […]

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Starring:
Omar Benson Miller, Michael Ealy, Derek Luke, Laz Alonso
Review:
Critics are raining down hard on Spike Lee’s first war epic. And
it’s not like I don’t have objections. Miracle at St. Anna
is too long, lazily constructed, and crammed with too many
characters and subplots for any director to develop fully outside
of an HBO miniseries. But Lee […]

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