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- Sin City
For the most part, Sin City confirms the wisdom of this approach. Miller's terse pulp poetry sounds electric when paired with action that redefines ultraviolence. Blood spurts, limbs fly, and human bodies do things that bodies just don't do, but when excess is much of the point, nothing can feel excessive. Miller and Rodriguez work big: The ever-present CGI tweaking makes the film as much a work of animation as a flesh-and-blood enterprise, and the extremity of the action feeds into their oversized themes of guilt and vengeance. Their cast knows how to work big as well, from an unrecognizable Mickey Rourke (as a goon with a gold heart and lead fists) to Bruce Willis (as an aging cop intent on protecting the woman he was wrongly convicted of abusing as a child) to Clive Owen and Rosario Dawson as ex-lovers working to preserve a truce that ensures hard-won autonomy for the city's prostitutes. - Colin Farrell -- Recruit
In this electrifying suspenser, Colin Farrell is a computer wizard who is enlisted into the CIA by Al Pacino, an agency veteran who knew Farrell's late father. After intense training sessions at a secret Virginia facility called "the Farm," where he meets beautiful fellow operative-in-the-making Bridget Moynahan, Farrell is charged with finding a mole among the other recruits. Roger Donaldson ("No Way Out") directs. 115 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: Spanish; audio commentary by Donaldson, Farrell; featurette; deleted scenes. - Sophia Bush -- Tree Hill
One Tree Hill star Sophia Bush spent her hiatus from the show working on The Hitcher, a remake of the 1986 horror film which starred Rutger Hauer. In this new version, Bush is terrorized by a killer played by Sean Bean. - Madge Bellamy
The beautiful and talented actress Madge Bellamy was born Margaret Derden Philpott on June 30th, 1899, in Hillsboro, Texas. She was the daughter of a college English professor, and received her education in San Antonio and Denver public schools. At age fifteen Madge knew what she wanted to do with her life, and in between her schooling she had the good fortune of appearing in three starring roles on Broadway, "The Prince and the Pauper", Charles Frohman's "Pollyanna", and the play "Dear Brutus", substituting for Helen Hayes. Critics took notice immediately, and Madge was billed "The Most Beautiful Girl On Broadway." - Robert Rodriguez -- El Mariachi
Texas native Robert Rodriguez shot to fame in the early '90s as the man who made a movie for $7,000. Intended as a practice film for the Spanish-language direct-to-video market, El Mariachi became an art-house hit. Though crudely made, it displayed a breathless joy that continued through each of Rodriguez's subsequent films. After making the B-movie homage Roadracers for cable, he returned to the big screen with the El Mariachi remake/sequel Desperado, starring Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek, who became regulars in Rodriguez's films. After contributing a segment to the little-loved indie anthology Four Rooms, Rodriguez collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on the vampire movie From Dusk Till Dawn, then directed The Faculty, a Kevin Williamson-scripted high-school variation on Invasion Of The Body Snatchers. Last year, Rodriguez scored his biggest hit to date with Spy Kids. - Sam Peckinpah -- Director
Keith, who saw a ‘pretty bad’ script, was in; providing Sam Peckinpah was sat in the director’s chair. Sam would fix The Deadly Companions, no problem; it was the sort of challenge he relished. - Larry Parks
In 1951 Larry Parks was summoned to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee, under threat of being blacklisted in the movie industry, but he begged not to be forced to testify. He eventually did so in tears, only to be blacklisted anyway. Larry Parks eventually gave up the names of his former colleagues and submitted to the HUAC. Following his admission before the committee, Columbia Pictures dropped him, and a romantic comedy he made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was shelved for three years. Parks made only a few more films, but continued to eke out a living acting on the stage and doing occasional television programmes. He last appeared, in a major role, in the John Huston film Freud (1962). - Jackie Chan -- Films
Jackie Chan's first attempt to crack the American film market was this action-packed martial arts tale with a sly sense of humor. He's a restaurant owner's son in '30s Chicago who is forced by mobsters to take part in a brutal, winner-take-all fight tournament in Texas to save his family. Jose Ferrer, Mako, Kristine DeBell co-star; directed by Robert Clouse ("Enter the Dragon"). 95 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1; theatrical trailers. - John Leguizamo -- New York
John Leguizamo captivated audiences with his portrayal of Sid the sloth in Ice Age. Now he's back, voicing the character again in Ice Age: The Meltdown. This time, as the ice melts and the world comes alive with the colors of Spring, Sid finds that he has what it takes to be a real hero. He and his oddly matched family - Manny the mammoth, Diego the saber toothed tiger and newcomer to the group, Ellie - a mammoth who believes she is a possum - set off on a wondrous journey into the unknown of their changing world. - Gena Rowlands
Grad-school administrative head Marion Post (Gena Rowlands) is in the midst of writing a book. The walls are thin in the apartment she's taken for work purposes, and soon Marion begins listening to the sessions conducted by her neighbor, an analyst. One of the patients is Hope (Mia Farrow), whose marriage is in tatters. As Hope prattles on, Marion begins flashing back to highlights (and lowlights) of her own marriage. Her musings are constantly interrupted by the memory of the man (Gene Hackman) she'd once ardently loved. Later on, chance encounters with old friends force Marion to face the fact that she has lived her life sheltering herself from her true emotions.
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