Lisa and Louise Burns (a.k.a., the Grady twins from The Shining) attended a a BFI 50th anniversary screening of Stanley Kubrick‘s Dr. Strangelove about six weeks ago in London. They’re in their mid 40s now, but (a) I honestly don’t see much of a resemblance and (b) I can’t match either one with their younger selves. They looked frosty and malevolent as kids and now they look like ladies who lunch in Madrid.
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It took me a full month to see Wes Ball and Josh Friedman‘s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes...
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Unless Part Two of Kevin Costner‘s Horizon (Warner Bros., 8.16) somehow improves upon the sluggish initial installment and delivers something...
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For me, A Dangerous Method (2011) is David Cronenberg‘s tastiest and wickedest film — intense, sexually upfront and occasionally arousing...
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