Michael Clark
Movie Critic
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MOVIE REVIEW: Director delivers stroke of genius with ‘Radiant Child’
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Last Updated: 12:22 PM 08/26/10 - It might come as a big surprise to us lay people, but many in-the-know types consider Jean-Michel Basquiat (pronounced: bass-key-yacht) as significant a 20th century painter as Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollack and Salvador Dali. Like those same artists — yet unlike so few of the centuries’ old past masters such as Vincent van Gogh — Basquiat was famous while he was alive and went from hand-to-mouth to financially flush literally overnight. (Full Story) |
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She's back: Emma Thompson reprises her role as Nanny McPhee
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Last Updated: 4:10 PM 08/19/10 - The sequel to the 2005 original is another riff on “Mary Poppins” with essentially the same story as the first, features lesser known actors and contains more slapstick and potty humor. In other words, it’s a standard issue sequel with absolutely nothing new to say or even a new way to say it. (Full Story) |
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‘The Switch’ a great date movie
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Last Updated: 4:08 PM 08/19/10 - Long before her stint as Rachel Green on “Friends” was over, Jennifer Aniston inherited the position of America’s Sweetheart once held by Meg Ryan, then Julia Roberts and later by Sandra Bullock. To her credit, Aniston has regularly turned down a lot of fluff productions in favor of gutsier, low-visibility arthouse fare (“The Good Girl,” “Management,” “Friends with Money”) and sports a fairly balanced, above average resume. (Full Story) |
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‘Life During Wartime’ revisits characters from earlier film
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Last Updated: 4:05 PM 08/19/10 - Well over a decade ago, writer/director Todd Solondz delivered “Welcome to The Dollhouse” and “Happiness” — two of the most acclaimed and blistering films of the ’90s art-house boom. In the dozen years since then, Solondz has made just two other movies — both of them inferior — and lost his artistic momentum. (Full Story) |
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Don’t make the extra effort for ‘Extra Man’
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Last Updated: 4:03 PM 08/19/10 - With few exceptions (“Dave,” “Trade,” “The Big Chill”), Kevin Kline usually plays eccentric, off-beat characters and he’s generally pretty good it at. The same can be said about Paul Dano, Kline’s co-lead in “The Extra Man.” (Full Story) |
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‘Hubble 3D’ is out of this world
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Last Updated: 4:01 PM 08/19/10 - Although it certainly comes in handy on a couple of occasions, 3-D isn’t that important of a feature for a documentary like “Hubble 3D.” If you have a space-based telescope that can clearly present actual images that are 150 trillion miles from Earth with the clarity of a microscope, 3-D becomes redundant. You also don’t need 3-D for static scenes in a brightly lit cement room showing astronauts being suited up prior to launch. (Full Story) |
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Georgia gorgeous backdrop to superb acting in ‘Get Low’
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Last Updated: 3:58 PM 08/19/10 - It’s odd, ironic and more than a little cruel that on the one day people we know are most likely to say something nice about us, we’ll never hear it. We’ll be there — stiff, cold, horizontal and in a box — but we’ll never be privy to the post-mortem accolades falling from the lips of those who knew us best. (Full Story) |
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Negative stereotypes ruin ‘Lottery Ticket’
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Last Updated: 3:56 PM 08/19/10 - In addition to “Get Low,” “Lottery Ticket” is the other movie opening this weekend that was shot in Atlanta. The best thing that can be said about this patently offensive and supremely unentertaining travesty is that rookie director Erik White manages to make even the most blight-riddled parts of the city look good. (Full Story) |
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DISC SPOTLIGHT: Hamlet (Blu-ray book)
Last Updated: 3:54 PM 08/19/10 - (Full Story) |
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FILM FANS: ‘Expendables’ fun for some, not so for others
Last Updated: 3:50 PM 08/19/10 - Film Fans features local residents reviewing the film of the week: “The Expendables.” Want to be a Film Fan? E-mail features@gwinnettdailypost.com. (Full Story) |
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