For movies opening April 9, 2010 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Black Waters of Echo’s Pond (R for gore, graphic violence, profanity, drug use, nudity and sexuality) High attrition-rate horror flick featuring 9 friends whose dream vacation in a Victorian mansion on a remote island turns ghastly when they decide to play an ancient game they […]
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Buddies Travel Back to the ’80s in Raunchy Road Comedy
If the ostensible objective of each generation of raunchy road comedies is to up the ante in terms of debauchery, then Hot Tub Time Machine definitely deserves to be given its due, since this relentlessly vulgar exercise in depravity easily outdoes many of the earlier examples of the shock genre. For instance, remember that moment […]
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My Big Fat Mexican Wedding
Is the idea of a Chicano marrying an African American really all that shocking? Maybe it is in L.A., where gang warfare has brothers and cholos gunning down each other in bloody drive-bys. Elsewhere, I suspect it’s not that big a deal, but don’t tell that to the Ramirezes and the Boyds, the clans that […]
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New Book Helps ‘Sistahs’ Find the Faith
“The women in this book have come a long way to meet you. Some of them write under a new name to protect their families. Others speak in their own name to save their lives… As you read these stories, be comforted if you are afflicted. Be clothed with the robe of many colors, the […]
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“Henrietta died in 1951 from a vicious case of cervical cancer… But before she died, a surgeon took samples of her tumor and put them in a Petri dish. Scientists had been trying to keep human cells alive in culture for decades, but they all eventually died. Henrietta’s were different: they reproduced an entire generation […]
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The Envelope Please: Who Will Win, Who Deserves to, Who Was Snubbed
Although Avatar and The Hurt Locker landed nine Academy Award nominations each, I foresee the former and director James Cameron enjoying a clean sweep. Breaking all box-office records, Avatar is a juggernaut that nobody will be able to stop on Oscar night. This means that The Hurt Locker, which was directed by Cameron’s ex-wife, Kathryn […]
