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The ageless cold warrior is back, though it takes something
personal to rouse John Rambo from his self-imposed exile in Thailand. This time
it's the horrors of Burma, or more specifically the kidnapping of a small group
of white, American missionaries bringing medicine, food and religion to the
oppressed Karen villagers (who are brutally massacred in the first act). You
can't change the world, he tries to tell these idealists, then forges himself a
new knife, picks up his hunting bow and takes charge of their rescue: "Live for
nothing or die for something." ...Read More
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| Cassandra's Dream |
Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell are brothers and best friends whose
ambitions and weaknesses land them in a dilemma that begins to eat at their
solidarity in Woody Allen's third British production, one of his "serious" films
and a rare Allen movie set in the milieu of working-class lives with big
ambitions. ... Read More
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| The Invaders: The First Season |
The first great blast of conspiracy TV throws a traveling architect, David
Vincent (Roy Thinnes), into a nightmare when he witnesses a flying saucer and
stumbles across evidence of an alien invasion (the giveaway: a stiff pinkie
finger). Which, of course, no one will believe. ... Read More
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| Mariah Carey: The Adventures of Mimi |
The last couple of years have seemed like a continuous victory lap for
Mariah Carey. Following the flop of her film "Glitter" and her conspicuous
public breakdown, Carey and her team of advisers took time to take stock and
prepare a comeback that, to date, appears to just keep coming ... Read More
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| Come Drink With Me |
King Hu's 1966 Hong Kong wuxia pian ("martial chivalry" genre)
classic stars Cheng Pei-Pei as the avenging Golden Swallow, on a mission to save
her kidnapped brother, and Yueh Hua as an amiable beggar with a chorus of
scruffy orphans, who plays guardian angel to the warrior woman, his drunken
front hiding his true identity. ... Read More
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