Live Free or Die Hard: Fun and Forgettable
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Despite his computer illiteracy, the rogue cop hero battles a computer mastermind in this superficialthrills-a-minute sequel
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As pastimes go it is in the same league as watching paint dry, with perhaps a frisson of extra excitement.
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Lifetimeâs two-hour movie is an uneasy combination of crime thriller, romantic melodrama and snuff film that doesnât ask us to suspend our disbelief so much as overcome our gag reflex.
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Put three old friends in a  convertible for a cross-country road trip to a loved one's  funeral, and what do you get? Very few surprises, in this  feel-good fluff that, despite offering nothing novel, could do  well with older audiences who rightly feel that too few films  are being made with them in mind.
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Sometimes gamemakers produce interesting titles that prove just as amusing to cranky adults as to less-discerning youngsters. Other times they drop the ball, hard. Game reviews of The Golden Compass and EA Playground by Chris Kohler and Lore Sj&#246;berg.
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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Play film critic and review the Rajnikanth starrer.
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It&#39;s been a bad time for movies in general lately, but good for thrillers like &quot;The Forgotten,&quot; right, which claimed the No.
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Steven Soderbergh's unabashedly trivial sequel may be slim pickings, but when it works, it's a blast.
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Dhol is predictable of Priyadarshan films. The film lacks originality and is funny only in parts. Music by Pritam too is impressinve.
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Too bad the newest installment in the &quot;Leisure Suit Larry&quot; series isn&#39;t much of a video game. The challenging puzzles and clever character interaction that boosted earlier titles in the franchise
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"New and Improved" is a tried-and-true corporate cliche. If Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards are a success, perhaps "Complete and Total Reinvention" will become the new buzz packaging.
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Gandana Mane lacks freshness and has a cinematic narration seen in the seventies. Shivaraj Kumar tries to salvage the film, but it is of no avail. V Manohar's music composition is a saving grace.
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These games aren't the best, nor are they the prettiest. &nbsp;Instead, these are the games I played with my friends - the games let us kick the ever-loving-crap out of each other in increasingly fascinating ways. &nbsp;These are the most original head-to-head sleeper hits on the Sony Playstation. Just some fun stuff you might've missed the first time around.
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Geleya may well appeal to the young and the mass audience. In a nutshell the film is high on technical aspects, but low on content -- a clichÃ©d fare with some entertaining moments.
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It&#39;s been a bad time for movies in general lately, but good for thrillers like &quot;The Forgotten,&quot; which claimed the No.
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The videocassette in film: an unsettling innovation, a romanticized artifact, an LP in an MP3 world.