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SAVING STAR WARS

By | June 2005

Woody is a lifelong “Star Wars” fan with a terminally ill son. Although they agree with the rest of us that “Episode I” sucked like a Hoover, father and son have bonded over the films, and the ailing boy wants George Lucas to restore the series to its former glory and continue making future episodes so his father can enjoy them after he’s gone…

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SAVING STAR WARS

Look, I was there, okay? I was nine years old when “Star Wars” opened in 1977 and saw it with my father and brother about a dozen times during its...

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It’d take a titanic-sized carrot to lure a rabbit from it’s deep, uninhabited borough when it’s sleeping, but in the case of Jane Fonda, absent from...

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This is a movie about second chances. It's the story of an Irish light heavyweight named James J. Braddock whose career unraveled around the time of the...

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Marcos Arriaga’s study of homosexual life in present day Peru is a fascinating look into Latin America’s struggle with religion, politics and machismo....

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CINDERELLA MAN

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