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Today, our cultural barometer is shattering. The most critically acclaimed and commercially successful movies hinge upon violently disturbing visual assaults and a running theme of moral nihilism. In the most cuttingedge cinema, there are no "good guys," no right side to root for in a struggle against evil. More and more movies are following a trend epitomized by Oliver stone's Natural Born Killers (based originally on a story by Tarantino), in which the heroes are psychopaths who kill scores of innocent people and get away with it, riding off into the sunset to commit more acts of ultraviolence...
...doctors, lawyers and brain surgeons--not many--but there are a few. Most of my friends are dead or in jail. That's the way it went. I don't want to be the spokesperson for tough Italian kids trying to get out of their neighborhood through cinema. The ending of the movie is: that's the way it goes. What...
...title announcing a seemingly dry period of history. "The Madness of King George" is a wild ride in a staid carriage. Virtually identical to British playwright Alan Bennett's very successful original stage play, Nicholas Hynter's film is not only great entertainment, but quality cinema...
...know FAYE DUNAWAY can sue; we may never know whether she can sing. After ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER dropped her from his Los Angeles production of Sunset Boulevard last year, claiming the cinema star wasn't up to its ``musical demands,'' she countered by slapping him with a $6 million lawsuit. But now composer and actress are practically humming in harmony, having settled their differences for an undisclosed sum--reported to be $1.5 million. Dunaway said she was pleased they were able to ``patch up a very painful public rift,'' and Lloyd Webber lauded her as ``an extraordinary talent.'' A happy...
...Cinema: The pseudo-epic Legends of the Fall...