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Making The Deadline

It is the first 95-degree day of the summer in Baton Rouge on the first day of shooting for The Deadline, a psychological thriller that intrigued Brittany Murphy enough to spend 24 days in this condemning heat.

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Quantum bonds with its predecessor

Revenge doesn't wait for one-liners and casual sex, and that's what the haters don't seem to understand about Quantum of Solace, the latest entry in the long-running James Bond series.

Role Models shocks, tries to awe

Riding on the goodwill David Wain’s purile summer camp comedy Wet Hot American Summer earned with my friends and me in college, I eagerly watched Role Models, the latest film from a few of those lovable NYU grads who made it big on MTV in the ‘90s with their sketch comedy troupe, The State.

In Bruges, Belgian for brilliant

First things first on In Bruges: It is the feature film debut from writer-director Martin McDonagh, and it is clear we’ve got a brave new voice with some major potential here.

Eastwood hits the gas

Nobody can say Clint Eastwood has slowed down in his golden years. The man is on fire.

W. asks why?

I saw W. last weekend, and while my expectations were in check, the film was something of a surprise.

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Four brothers, For Hearts

When discussing the idea of their next feature film, the Crane brothers had very different ideas.
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Riffs: Susie Labry, actress

On her favorite gig
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Phil Beard's Location Truck

What's a gaffer? Intelligent muscle, says Phil Beard. A look inside his rolling toolshed.
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Bond takes Quantum leap

Two years ago the blonde-haired, blue-eyed, and big-eared Daniel Craig proved each of his critics wrong by turning in a remarkably raw and flawed take on the most serialized and, occasionally, serially overrated action hero of modern cinema.
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Burn, baby, burn

When Joel and Ethan Coen decide to try to make us laugh, it can turn out like Intolerable Cruelty, a screwball comedy the 1950s coughed up and want back, or it can grow into a cult phenomenon like The Big Lebowski.
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Tropic Thunder

What’s most endearing about this comedy is that it expertly satirizes Hollywood in the same way you and some friends would while watching A-listers congratulate themselves at the Academy Awards.
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Brother’s Keeper

Few mixed families could be more awkward than one formed with Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly at its outrageous center.
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