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Entries Tagged as 'David Levien'

Runaway Jury (2003, Gary Fleder)

February 1st, 2008 1 Comment

I thought there were no anti-conservative Hollywood films for a long while after 9/11, so I guess Runaway Jury went under the radar. It appears to have been a significant bomb and, watching it, it seemed strange to see John Grisham’s name on screen. It’s been a long time since adaptations of his novels have […]

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Ocean’s Thirteen (2007, Steven Soderbergh)

January 15th, 2008 No Comments

A friend of mine thinks this entry is the series’s most successful, but–while it is a tad confrontational–I prefer the outright hostility to the average viewer the second one exhibits. Ocean’s Thirteen seems to be made more for the remaining audience. The people who got Twelve. The scenes in Mexico, in particular, are the sort […]

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