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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 279: “Father of the Bride, Part II”
Scott Renshaw of Salt Lake City Weekly joins Mousterpiece Cinema as Gabe says goodbye to the show after 5 years.
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“Rules Don’t Apply” to Warren Beatty
Kenji Fujishima writes about Warren Beatty's long-awaited return to film, "Rules Don't Apply," in context of his directorial career.
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 273: “Father of the Bride”
On this episode of Mousterpiece Cinema, Josh and Gabe get into a punchy mood as they debate the remake of "Father of the Bride."
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“5 Flights Up”
Modest in ambition and charm, 5 Flights Up, a deftly played two-hander starring Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton, feels a lot like a Hallmark Channel movie that just so happened to land a couple of cinema legends in leading roles. But movie-star charisma goes a...
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It Had to Be Her: Celebrating Diane Keaton’s Birthday
Diane Keaton may be best known for The Godfather and Annie Hall, but little do folks know that she once had the ambition to become a singer. She’s played them in movies from time to time, but I don’t know if we should hold our breaths for an album of standards...
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“And So It Goes” Nowhere Of Interest
Once upon a time, Rob Reiner made good movies. Scratch that: he made great movies. Thirty years ago, he made This Is Spinal Tap in his very first outing as a director. Two years after that, he made Stand By Me. A year after that, he made The Princess Bride. An...
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History of Film: ‘Annie Hall’
Editor’s note: Annie Hall is one of the 10 best films of the 1970s voted on by staff, friends, and readers of Movie Mezzanine. For the sake of surprise, we’ll wait to reveal where this and every other film ranks on the list until the very end. We hope you enjo...
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Justin Zackham On The Universal Truth That Helped Him Write Romantic Comedy The Big Wedding
Hollywood rumor has it that Zackham wrote The Bucket List in two weeks, so when I got to interview the screenwriter -- and first-time director -- of course I had to ask how long The Big Wedding took. He laughed and said that reports of his speedy writing had b...
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Dueling Takes on The Big Wedding: Color-By-Numbers Rom-Com With Surprisingly Dark Shading
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With the romantic comedy getting increasingly tedious, recent entries seem to respond by either going back to basics or pushing the limits of the formulaic story into an almost meta commentary. The former describes Save the Date, one of my favorite mov...
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The Big Wedding Is a Big Failure
Some scripts can be saved by a good cast that delivers the material with as much chutzpah as possible. And then there are some that are simply unsalvageably dreadful. The Big Wedding is one of those scripts. Primarily based on a French comedy called Mon frère ...
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