Clint J. Froehlich

Brokeback Mountain

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Directed by Ang Lee Focus Features 5 Stars The cultural pressure placed on “Brokeback Mountain” to be a commercial and

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It’s culture-clash weekend at the box office! Wildly different movies open on the same weekend all the time, but this

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Fat and fatter have left the Mouse House. In their wake they leave a filthy trail of Lays potato chip

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More movies should be like “Demon Seed.” That’s right, “Demon Seed,” the trashy 1977 adaptation of the Dean Koontz novel

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As this is my last column for the glorious school year of 2004-2005, it’s time to prophesize. Or at least

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Filmmaking is not an art form that breeds responsibility. This, admittedly, is not too profound a statement, but it certainly

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If anything raises The Ring Two slightly above its predecessor on the horror film barometer, it’s the sequel’s gung-ho philosophy:

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The Oscars, that annual self-display of bad plastic surgery and the art of assembly-line cinema, have come to a close

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Some problematic trends have emerged—or perhaps re-emerged—during this year’s Oscar season. For one, the Foreign Language Film situation has turned

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Valentine’s Day is a vomit-inducing holiday. It never ceases to remind me of Michael Warner’s postulation that happy couples are