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'Wanted'
rafer.guzman@newsday.comYou've heard of the wheel of fortune and the hammer of the gods. But how about the textile mill of fate? It exists in "Wanted," a supremely silly but fast-moving action flick about a group of weavers - that's right, weavers - who double as assassins with...Tags: Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie, Defense, Firearms
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Angelina Jolie has a killer role in 'Wanted'
Special to NewsdaySome things about the summer movie season are as predictable as ... well, the summer movie season. There will always be movies based on comic books - like "Wanted." There will always be movies worked on by five writers - like "Wanted." There will be...Tags: Unions, John Anderson, Television, Marilyn Monroe, The Pope
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Movie Review: 'Transsiberian'
Sentinel Movie CriticA worldly "bad girl" wife, a naive husband, two too-chatty strangers, drugs, Russian cops and a very long train ride -- that's a combo Alfred Hitchcock would be happy to call his own. Transsiberian is a paranoid, chilling train trek that borrows freely...Tags: Game Playing, Alfred Hitchcock, Ben Kingsley, Roger Moore, Transsiberian (movie)
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'Wanted': stars Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman--filmed in Chicago
Tribune criticIt'll be fun, up to a point, for Chicago audiences to see "Wanted." Russian director Timur Bekmambetov, who's now shooting the third in his "Night Watch" trilogy, filmed parts of his adaptation of the "Wanted" comic books on location in Wrigleyville,...Tags: Danny Elfman, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie, Wrigleyville, Movies
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Femme fatale
RedEyeFast cars, curving bullets, trains falling off cliffs. The new action thriller "Wanted" has plenty of jaw-dropping visual effects, but as is the case with most of the movies in which she acts, all eyes are on the film's star, Angelina Jolie. In the...Tags: Adolf Hitler, Angelina Jolie, Movies, Brad Pitt, Cannes Film Festival
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A slick, surprising 'Wanted'
amNewYork movie critic"Wanted" follows through on all the verbs a blockbuster ought to follow through on: It thrills, it adrenalizes, it makes you laugh. And, as an added bonus, it actually has an interesting story. It's not a prize-winning script, by any means. But it's...Tags: Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie, Armed Forces, Movies, Defense
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Fast-Paised review: King Kong'
Big question: After completing the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, Peter Jackson apparently asked himself, "What can I direct that's a bit larger?" Can $200 million, three hours and a full arsenal of special effects make "King Kong" more fun than a barrel of...Tags: Game Playing, Peter Jackson, Jack Black, Richard Taylor, Adrien Brody
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Movie review: King Kong'
Tribune arts critic3½ stars (out of four) The new "King Kong" is a blast, and I'm probably not the only one surprised at how well the lavishly overstuffed project, unlike Kong after the fall, lands on its feet. The great achievement of Peter Jackson's remake, the one he...Tags: Al Jolson, Peter Jackson, Jack Black, Fay Wray, Richard Taylor
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Black Magic
Special to MergeGet ready for that old Black magic. In Peter Jackson's $207 million King Kong, funnyman Jack Black brings his trademark intensity to Carl Denham, an obsessed, Depression-era movie director who hoodwinks a crew of film folk (Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody,...Tags: Peter Jackson, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Orson Welles, New York
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Movie review: 'Downfall'
TRIBUNE MOVIE CRITIC4 stars (out of 4) "The banality of evil" was the phrase Hannah Arendt used to describe the mindset of Germany's death camp culture during World War II, and it perfectly fits the theme and subject of the new German film "Downfall." Few movies indeed have...Tags: Adolf Hitler, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Hannah Arendt, Bruno Ganz, Heinrich Himmler
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Movie review: 'Head in the Clouds'
TRIBUNE MOVIE CRITIC2 stars (out of 4) Was World War II the most romantic of all movie wars? "Head in the Clouds" is the latest effort to recapture the magic of "Casablanca" or "The English Patient" and also the latest to fail--despite the heart-stirring presence of...Tags: Sony Corp., Steven Berkoff, Django Reinhardt, Wars and Interventions, Movies
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'Blade: Trinity'
Times Staff WriterAs its title indicates, "Blade: Trinity" brings back Wesley Snipes a third time as the black-leather-duster-clad, half-human/half-vampire dedicated to eradicating full-fledged bloodsuckers, which Blade regards as the scourge of the Earth — as if our...Tags: Natasha Lyonne, Crimes, Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Movies
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