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Entries Tagged as 'Ving Rhames'

Dave (1993, Ivan Reitman)

December 6th, 2005 No Comments

I love scenes where actors eat. There’s a great scene in Dave with Sigourney Weaver eating a sandwich. Great stuff.
It occurred to me, while watching the film, that, while it’s still cute, it’s already a relic and it’s only twelve years old. The idea of a person wanting to be President in order to help […]

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Bringing Out the Dead (1999, Martin Scorsese)

November 6th, 2005 No Comments

What to say about Bringing Out the Dead… I remember now why 1999 was the hardest year to make a top ten list for–and I hadn’t even seen Wonderland at that point. Whatever. It’s the best. It’s certainly Scorsese’s best work in the 1990s, puts the rest to a kind of shame (it’s odd, then, […]

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