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The film "21" isn't so much based on the true story of a scheme
about beating the house in Las Vegas as it is intrigued by this idea: A
charismatic but corrupt MIT math professor lures his top students into a
gambling team, coaches them in card counting and codes for passing information,
and then rakes in 50 percent of their winnings without setting foot in a casino.
Jim Sturgess ("Across the Universe") is the working-class math genius Ben, a
charismatic science nerd lured from his geek squad buddies by the allure of Team
Vegas' sexy golden girl (Kate Bosworth, on hand largely as eye candy) and the
charm of Kevin Spacey's professor-turned-gambling godfather. ...Read More |
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| The Last Winter |
Larry Fessenden's eco-twist on the ghost story is set in the isolation of
an Arctic oil company outpost. The atmosphere evokes John Carpenter's "The
Thing," a team surrounded by a frozen desert where storms whip up out of nowhere
and something seemingly alien is out there trying to get to them. "The corpses
of ... Read More |
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| Spaced: The Complete Series |
Before "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz," director Edgar Wright and
actor/writer Simon Pegg collaborated with actress/writer Jessica Hynes (nee
Stevenson) on this 1999 cult BBC sitcom about a couple of slackers, Daisy
(Hynes) and Tim (Pegg), who meet at a pub and decide to pose as a couple ... Read More |
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| Joy Division |
Director Grant Gee is best known for his stunning Radiohead tour
documentary "Meeting People is Easy," one of the best ever deconstructions of
the rock star myth ever committed to film and tape. Given his mastery.... Read More |
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| Vampyr |
An early sound film shot with a distinctive and evocative silent
film aesthetic, Carl Th. Dreyer's "Vampyr" is a horror movie as tone poem -- an
eerie, ethereal fever dream of a traveler, Allan Grey (Julian West), whose
"wanderings" bring him to a cursed village. A villager with a scythe rings a
bell on a misty lake ... Read More |
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