Movie Review | 'Because I Said So': Mother, Please, Iâd Rather Do It Myself
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âBecause I Said Soâ is an exercise in deliberate mediocrity, with chuckles and heartwarming moments distributed as carefully as nuts in a factory-made brownie.
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When  communist activist Brinda Karat showed up playing the pivotal role of Konkona Sen SharmaÂs mother in Amu, everyone thought it was an indulgence that the social protestor could ill afford.
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As Tori Amos once asked, "Why do we crucify ourselves?"
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Celebrated filmmaker-scriptwriter Saeed Mirza says he enjoyed the experience of penning his debut novel Ammi: Letter To A Democratic Mother so much that now he only wants to concentrate on writing.
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In Adam Shankman's adaptation of 'Hairspray,' a screwloose premise underscores one eminently sane message: sometimes, it's fun to stand up for who you really are.
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You know the line. If you saw &quot;A League of Their Own,&quot; the film about the first women&#39;s baseball league, you can still hear Tom Hanks saying it.
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"Oh, gosh. You know, I'm tempted to answer that question rather fliply."
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Tycho:  "Live Free Or Die Hard" is a movie where a man drives a car into a helicopter, and that may be all one needs to know about it.  For some reason, regardless of what is present in the strip, I found myself quite able to place my brain in neutral and roll down the film's gentle, sloping grade.  I thought that Gabriel would be proud that I had done so, but he was not.  He held the film to some higher standard, and on a very specific topic - its presentation of technology and technology culture.  I know, right? Look out your window; there's probably frogs and blood and shit.
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One will rise and one must fall.  The phone rings. It's Mom. She wants to know if I'm still alive. This happens more often than you'd think. A bridge has collapsed. I wasn't on it (sorry, guys), but I may well have been.  Hanging up with Mom, I do what every self-respecting blogger with delusions of legitimate journalistic credentials would do: put on my headphones, grab the camera, hop on the bike and go scoop the MSM.
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An article last week about the do-it-yourself crafts community misstated the title of an upcoming movie about it. It is âHomemade Nation,â not âHomemade America.â.
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Despite occasional detours into sentimentality, this Irish film is better than the usual three-stage journey of courage, heartbreak and redemption.
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Blame Ayesha Takiya's father for prompting Nikhil Advani into making an animation film. "He actually   tempted me into making an animation film.
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Oliver Stone isnât a fan of the decision to invade Iraq, but in his next film he wants to render âa fair, true portraitâ of President Bush, Variety reported. âHow did Bush go from an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world?â Mr. Stone asked. âItâs like Frank Capra territory on one hand, but Iâll also cover the demons in his private life, his bouts with his dad and his conversion to Christianity, which explains a lot of where he is coming from. It includes his belief that God personally chose him to be president of the United States, and his coming into his own, with the stunning, pre-emptive attack on Iraq. It will contain surprises for Bush supporters and his detractors.â If financing materializes, âBush,â starring Josh Brolin, above, as the president in a screenplay written by Stanley Weiser, who wrote âWall Streetâ with Mr. Stone, will go before the cameras in April and could be in theaters by Election Day or by the inauguration of the next president. âIâm a dramatist who is interested in people,â Mr. Stone said, âand I have empathy for Bush as a human being, much as I did for Castro, Nixon, Jim Morrison, Jim Garrison and Alexander the Great.â.
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Robert Leleux has made his mother the centerpiece of his frantically giddy coming-of-age story.
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There are enough things to admire about âThe Great Debaters,â the heavily fictionalized true story of The Little Debate Team That Could, that your impulse is to forgive the movie its shortcomings.
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In âFreedom Writersâ Hilary Swank uses neediness to fine effect in a film with a strong emotional tug and smartly laid foundation.
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Sylvia Plath's daughter pleaded from the heart -- enough is enough.