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Tyler Perry mangles Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls
It’s a long, long way from the women’s bar outside Berkeley, California, where Ntozake Shange first presented her combustible choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf , in December 1974, to Atlanta’s Tyler Perry Studios, where the impresario filmed much of this calamitous adaptation.
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Ed Harris goes out on a ‘Ledge’
A female NYPD hostage negotiator tries to talk an ex-cop-turned-con out of jumping from a Manhattan hotel rooftop.
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Algerian Brothers Reunite in Paris, Outrage Still Burning
“Outside the Law,” Rachid Bouchareb’s sweeping historical melodrama of the Algerian struggle for independence , proceeds from a still-burning sense of outrage.
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More than a decade after it ended, ‘Larry Sanders’ is still as relevant, and as funny, as ever
Back when the Emmy-winning “Larry Sanders Show” was enjoying its six-season run on HBO from 1992 to 1998, one thing above all others made Garry Shandling’s brilliant bit of talk-show satire work: It all felt so darn real.
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DVD reviews: ‘The Pacific’ honest, mesmerizing portrait of war
Best described as a sibling to 2001′s smash HBO miniseries “Band of Brothers,” “The Pacific” brings viewers a different take on World War II.
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Verite documentary ‘Last Train Home’ is simple but searing stuff
“Last Train Home” represents the best kind of documentary filmmaking: It is transportive cinema, taking viewers to a place they never much considered and immersing them in an experience they never knew existed.
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An Honorary Oscar Revives a Controversy
No one had yet signed on to present an honorary Oscar to Mr. Godard, who has said he will not be on hand anyway at the academy’s awards banquet in Hollywood a week from Saturday.
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What a hero! Evans bulks up for Captain America
Chris Evans is seen in ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ and ‘Fantastic Four’ in 2005.
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