Michael Sheen as David Frost and Frank Langella as Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon
Frost/Nixon is one great scene surrounded by a Ron Howard picture. Whether that’s good news or bad news depends on your patience for the director’s trademark incapacity for subtlety or nuance. I have little, but in this case he’s a bit less irritating [...]

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Frost/Nixon: surprisingly un-crappy
My part of this week’s Watercooler is Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon. I went in with low expectations but an open mind and surprisingly it wasn’t too bad. It’s occasionally marred by Howard’s trademark lack of subtlety - he’s not just content to tell rather than show, first he tells and then he shows - but [...]

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Choke: The LiC pick of the week
The wide releases are a mixed bag this week. I recommend you check out A Thousand Years of Good Prayers which comes to LA this weekend or Choke which opens in limited release.
Opening wide:

Eagle Eye. Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan play two innocent strangers who are blackmailed into participating in a [...]

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Young love: Michael Angarano and Olivia Thirlby in Snow Angels
Movies You May Have Missed is a little unusual this week in that it includes a failed summer tentpole film and a trio of classic French films in addition to the usual arthouse fare. So, put on your helmet and driving gloves and fasten your seatbelt, [...]

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George Clooney and Frances McDormand in Burn After Reading
You can almost hear the air being let out of the summer movie season. Overall it was a pretty decent four months of movies, but I for one am glad to see it coming to an end. Now it’s time to look forward to the last third [...]

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Young love: Michael Angarano and Olivia Thirlby in Snow Angels 
From the beginning, the new drama Snow Angels would like you to consider the interconnectedness of people as each name in the opening credits is drawn in part from the letters of the one before it.
The theme continues through the first scene which follows a shambling [...]

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