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Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday July 28, 2000 "Nutty Professor II: The Klumps" is all Eddie, all the time. When the cast list appears at the end of this benighted sequel, the active Mr. Murphy is credited with eight roles. While this surely has its advantages (fewer star...Tags: Social Issues, Colleges and Universities, Jerry Lewis, Paul Weitz, PG-13 Rated Movies
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From the Gibson school of heroes
Times Staff WriterFor fans of muscular Hollywood action, Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" may have been a revelation, but it was no surprise. We have, after all, seen this story before. A stranger enters a town, a saloon or the wrong side of the tracks, riles up...Tags: Action (genre), Religious Texts, George Stevens Jr., Bible, Monica Bellucci
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Summer Movie Preview
Courant film CriticIt has been suggested that summer has already begun at the cineplexes, with the huge opening for ``The Scorpion King." Whether The Rock has legs as well as arms will be seen. But well before Memorial Day, the traditional start of summer, the long season...Tags: Social Issues, Morris Chestnut, Nicholas Hoult, Nick Cannon, John Woo
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'Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist'
Times Staff Writer"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again" may be advice film producers would be wise to ignore. After sinking a reported $40 million into a Paul Schrader-directed prequel to the 1973 horror hit "The Exorcist," Morgan Creek Chief Executive James...Tags: Izabella Scorupco, The Exorcist (movie, 1973), David Robinson, Caleb Carr, Paul Schrader
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'Exorcist: The Beginning'
Times Staff WriterThere's nothing like lowered expectations to prepare you for a movie. Since Warner Bros. has consigned "Exorcist: The Beginning" to that category of films that don't rate an advance screening for critics, and since the production has had such a checkered...Tags: Izabella Scorupco, John Frankenheimer, The Exorcist (movie, 1973), Julian Wadham, Caleb Carr
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Movie review: 'Ingmar Bergman Films'
TRIBUNE MOVIE CRITICOne of the cinema's masters and first citizens receives another celebration this week when 10 great films by Sweden's Ingmar Bergman--ranging from his superb 1955 romantic comedy "Smiles of a Summer night" to his 1983 valedictory masterpiece "Fanny and...Tags: Chess Playing, Opera (genre), Ingmar Bergman, Entertainment, Film Festivals
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Cannes tries to put 'Bunny' hop behind it
Chicago Tribune movie criticCan Cannes bounce back from "The Brown Bunny"? Or will Michael Moore's already controversial "Fahrenheit 9/11" dominate the international movie showcase, which begins again Wednesday on the southern coast of France? Last year's Cannes Film Festival --...Tags: John Leguizamo, Brazil, Russia, China, Kevin Kline
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Judge Dredd
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday June 30, 1995 The opening credits of the new futuristic Sylvester Stallone clobber-movie "Judge Dredd" are crowded with the comic-book covers of the cartoon super-hero. That's a tip-off that we're about to see a comic-book movie. Then a...Tags: James Earl Jones, Justice System, Politics, Jurgen Prochnow, Lawyers
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