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Russell Crowe

is Russell Crowe’s Noah a “crazy, irrational, religious nut”?

Fri, Feb 14, 2014
26 comments

Paramount is hoping to sell Darren Aronofsky’s Noah to both secular and religious audiences. This’ll be fun to watch…

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Red Obsession review: wine goes east

Fri, Sep 06, 2013
1 comment

Sly, sometimes funny documentary version of Bottle Shock, with China playing the role of 1970s Napa as it creeps up to smack the snooty Old World wine snobs.

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Man of Steel review: man of feel

Fri, Jun 14, 2013
112 comments

Towers with ambition, swelled by sweeping philosophies about power and presence on scales both planetary and personal, beautifully balanced by a wellspring of wry tragedy.

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QOTD: Which iconic (or imaginary) actor pairings would be fun to reverse?

Wed, Feb 06, 2013
21 comments

Like how Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman could have swapped roles in Les Misérables and it would have worked just as well…

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QOTD: Does Hollywood have a math problem?

Tue, Feb 05, 2013
10 comments

If so, is it a separate problem from Hollywood’s general disdain for anything intellectual?

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Broken City (review)

Fri, Jan 18, 2013
3 comments

I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that this script had been sitting around, unproduced, for 20 years, it’s that musty…

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Les Misérables (review)

Thu, Dec 20, 2012
18 comments

There’s an alchemy here that brings together the best of screen and the best of stage…

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The Man with the Iron Fists (redband trailer)

Fri, Nov 02, 2012
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Oh, man, how bad does this look? Hip-hop kung fu? Bwahahahaha.

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Broken City (trailer)

Tue, Oct 16, 2012
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Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe, together again for the first time!

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nice analysis of why Princess Leia is so damn cool (and other adventures in social networking)

Fri, Aug 10, 2012
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Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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