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Trailer Park: ‘Oz: the Great and Powerful’
Strangely, given both the rather towering presence that the film The Wizard of Oz holds in world cultural consciousness and the current mania for sequels and films based on proven properties, it’s been...
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New in Theaters: ‘Spring Breakers’
The new Harmony Korine film takes his kids-on-the-edge theme from Kids and updates it for the new millennium, with a batch of former Disney Channel actors playing college girls who go wild in Florida...
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Now Playing: ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’
Since studios are always trawling for the next great public domain property they can spin into a easily lucrative franchise, it was a matter of time before a gargantuan CGI budget was thrown at L....
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New on DVD: ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’
James Franco (the one in the hat) in ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’ L. Frank Baum’s fantastical Oz series gets turned into another CGI spectacle with Sam Raimi’s pretty but pretty unremarkable Oz the...
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Readers’ Corner: Francomania
A modest proposal from Minh Lee over at Bookriot which deserves at least some consideration: Let’s put James Franco on all book covers. See his Franco-fied version of The Picture of Dorian Gray above...
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New in Theaters: ‘Interior. Leather Bar.’
‘Cruising’. Again. Back in 1980, William Friedkin’s Cruising became the biggest mainstream film since The Boys in the Band to be set almost entirely in the gay community. A punishingly physical and...
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Writer’s Corner: James Franco is a Poet Now, Too
At some point, you would think that the whirling creative polymath that is James Franco would settle down. Onetime heartthrob actor turned creator of curious art installment films (Interior. Leather...
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Department of Weekend Reading: November 14, 2014
The British executed 306 of their own soldiers during World War I. Reenactments; it’s not just the Civil War anymore. Landing by remote control on a 4km-wide comet. China and the U.S. just might start...
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New in Theaters: Franco Behind Bars in ‘True Story’
Jonah Hill and James Franco get at the ‘True Story’ (Fox Searchlight) It isn’t every day that you see Jonah Hill and James Franco in a film and neither one of them is mugging up a storm. True Story...
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Based on a true story, I Am Michael stars James Franco as a gay activist who turns to Christianity and rejects everything about his past. It’s playing now in limited release. My review is at Film...
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