December 31st, 2006
Hi Mick: When you see a Mel Gibson movie like "Apocalypto," does your dislike for his social views make a difference in your review? Charlotte Jarmy, Los Altos [Podcast: Mick LaSalle catches up on 'Rocky Balboa.' Leba Hertz joins him. ] Hi...
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December 30th, 2006
IBreaking and EnteringI is too long and too distant. Worse, the script is all over the map and never settles in on a specific theme any more than it manages to figure out the emotional complexion of the people populating it. What starts out as something potentially more complicated and interesting turns into just another messy, pessimistic relationship movie about men cheating and women behaving cruelly.
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December 30th, 2006
Maxs last resort--and only remaining choice--is to team up with two shady associates hired by an absent mastermind to kidnap the son of one of the richest women in the state. After Max abducts the eight-year-old, he joins Roxanne and the fellow conspirators on an eerie, unsettling drive to their secluded winter hideout, an abandoned summer camp.
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December 30th, 2006
Pampered pooch and movie star Rexx is about to find his life uprooted.
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December 30th, 2006
Dougray Scott stars as a vampire who teams with a human detective to stop his brother from infecting the world with his tainted blood.
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December 29th, 2006
Van Damme stars as a heroin addicted dirty cop, hated by everyone around him. When a gunfight puts him in a coma, he comes out if it new man, and sets out to put right the things hes done wrong... probably by kicking them in the head.
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December 29th, 2006
IPathfinderI tells the story of a young Viking boy left behind by his people in North America which the Vikings had visited hundreds of years before Columbus. A stranger in a strange land, the boy is raised by a tribe of American Indians the very people the Vikings had sworn to destroy.
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December 29th, 2006
"Pan's Labyrinth" is a political fable in the guise of a fairy tale. Or maybe it's the other way around.
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December 29th, 2006
Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino have teamed up on a movie by segments before, back when they were both newly famous. The movie was IFour RoomsI, and it was so successful that I bet unless youre a hardcore film nut and good for you if you are, then youve probably never even heard of it. Hopefully IGrind HouseI will turn out as more than a blip. How can it not? Theres a girl with a frickin machine gun for a leg in it. Theres no way that can go wrong. For IGrind HouseI, each director takes a 75-minute segment of the movie and does whatever the hell they want with it. As far as we can tell, theres no unifying theme except gore, grit, and a weird retro-style.
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December 29th, 2006
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Pans Labyrinth: Drama. Starring Ivana Baquero, Sergi López and Maribel Verdú. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. (In Spanish, with subtitles. R. 112 minutes. At Bay Area theaters. For complete movie listings and show times, and to...
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