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Entries Tagged as 'Robert Benton'

Nadine (1987, Robert Benton)

September 24th, 2007 No Comments

There’s got to be some kind of story behind Nadine, one explaining why it makes no sense in its plotting, why the ending makes no sense and why it only runs seventy-eight minutes. Unfortunately, I can’t find any reference online to those issues, so I guess they’ll remain a mystery.
As it stands, Nadine is a […]

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Superman (1978, Richard Donner)

March 8th, 2007 No Comments

I love how the end of Superman, with the spinning back of the earth, causes so much trouble for people. My fiancée–before Marlon Brando had even gotten the kid into the spaceship–made me stop the movie twice (I had to tell her to stop, though I love her line about Superman having just as many […]

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The Ice Harvest (2005, Harold Ramis)

February 12th, 2007 No Comments

In the few reviews of The Ice Harvest I looked at before renting the DVD, the reviewers all called John Cusack’s lawyer character dumb. Watching the film, however, I noticed John Cusack was doing what he always does… playing John Cusack. So, I didn’t really see his character as stupid (I was trying to read […]

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