Ten-year-old Arthur, in a bid to save his grandfathers house from being demolished, goes looking for some much-fabled hidden treasure in the land of the Minimoys, a tiny people living in harmony with...

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Stephen Frears's sublimely nimble evisceration of the British royal family pries open a window in the House of Windsor around the time of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales....

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IPans LabyrinthI is not your average fairy tale. WriterDirectorMexican Visionary Guillermo del Toro IDevils BackboneI, IHellboyI has crafted a wicked blend of visual extravagance, gruesome horror, and surreal fantasy. In combining these elements, he has made one of the most gut-wrenching films ever to star an unsuspecting 11-year-old girl. That is what some people, if not me, will truly love about IPans LabyrinthIits a brutal karate chop to the head....

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Like rehearsal dinner champagne that has lost its fizz, theres nothing in the storyline to keep the humor fresh, and as a result a lot of the laughs fall flat. A good example is the naturist couple storyline. The image of naked people riding a tandem bicycle is a sort of funny visual gag, but the bit gets old pretty quick. Naked people playing badminton; naked people having a barbecue; upset people getting naked out of protest in the middle of a meeting; Isitt pounds her audience with nudity humor like a kid playing Whack-A-Mole in...

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If it wasn’t true before, it’s certainly true with the appearance of “The Latin Legends of Comedy”: the word legend has been devalued to the point of...

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