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Gangster Squad
The Impossible
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Director. Ruben Fleischer
Director. J.A. Bayona
Stars. Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone
Stars. Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts
Stars. Bill Murray, Laura Linney
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Director. Roger Michell
This movie will suffer from comparisons to The Untouchables and LA Confidential. It grabs the atmosphere of post war L.A. from the latter and the storyline — about an undercover team of police led by Sgt. O’Mara (Josh Brolin) who bring ruthless mobster Mickey Cohen to justice — almost beat for beat, from the former. But this is Drive a 115 Thorncliffe Park Toronto Ontario far more blunt object than M4H 1M1 either of its forbearers. It’s 7HO ‡ ‡ a period piece that spends a bit too much time exploring the down-and-dirty side of the story, but is a stylish look at a fascinating time. richard crouse
After a tsunami wipes out Even a charming performtheir Thai resort, an English ance by Bill Murray can’t family are separated from quite save Hyde Park on one another with Maria Hudson from its own (Watts) and her oldest mismatched intent. Oneson left wondering if her part quasi-romantic drama husband Henry (McGregor) between wartime President and their two youngest Franklin D. Roosevelt sons are still alive. Based (Murray) and a distant on a true story, director J.A. cousin/mistress (Linney) Bayona (the Orphanage) and one-part comedy about creates some of the year’s Roosevelt’s 1939 relation Docket: thrilling most viscerally ship-building with the King -:7 Client:the scenes during initial of England, one wishes Halls Metro Newsfilmmaker Roger Michell tidal wave and its immediJob Name: ate aftermath. the film had chosen the latter to Kendra Plantt Production Contact:But peaks early and the ensuing base his beautifully-shot search and flip-flopping film around even in spite points-of-view prove antiof some crafty dialogue and climactic. B:4.921� plotting. ian gormely T:4.921�
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Arnie makes good on ‘I’ll be back’ vow The Last Stand. After his turn as the Governator, Schwarzenegger returns to what he does best Arnold Schwarzenegger likes to beat people to a joke. “First of all, it’s great to be back,� he says with a grin before anyone gets a chance to adapt his famous catchphrase to his return to movies after an extended stint running the state of California. And he is back, he insists, starring in The Last Stand as a small-town sheriff going up against an army of mercenaries. “As you remember, when I got into the governorship in 2003, I said I only would go and run the state for the seven years that were remaining, then I would be back in the movie business,� he says. “So it was just kind of stepping out of the movie business
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rather than kind of like I’m now going back to the movie business.� During that time, though, the movie business has changed, a harsh lesson for Schwarzenegger, considered a “contract genius� in his heyday for the deals he could broker
for films like Eraser and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines regardless of their success or failure. “It’s kind of like a scary thing to come back because you don’t know if you’re accepted or not,� he admits. “I have to also be realistic that I may see something that I may like to do, and I will go and take it to (producer) Lorenzo (di Bonaventura) and he will say, ‘Oh, this is fantastic, but I don’t think anyone is going to see it.’ It’s show business. It’s the show, it’s the acting, it’s the performing, it’s all of this, but you’ve got to be able to sell it also because movies cost a lot of money.� In The Last Stand, Schwarzenegger, now 65, is also hoping to get out in front of any wave of jokes about his age. “You don’t want to dwell on it, but to just throw it in, and it takes the curse off then,� he says of jokes made at the expense of his advancing years in the film. “You can make fun of yourself.� ned ehrbar, mwn
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