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TALKING PICTURES: STEEL TRAP

By | April 2002

Writer David Templeton takes interesting people to the movies in his ongoing quest for the ultimate post-film conversation. This week Mr. Fix-it deconstructs Jody Foster’s “Panic Room”…

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TALKING PICTURES: STEEL TRAP

House-builder Lou Manfredini doesn't like to waste materials-or words. As the straight-shooting host of Chicago's long-running Mr. Fix-It radio...

IS THE “PANIC ROOM” SAFE?

CRITIC DOCTOR EXAMINES: Shirley Klass (mervius.com), David Grove (filmthreat.com), Eleanor Ringel Gillespie (accessatlanta.com), Holly McClure...

TALKING PICTURES: PITCH PERFECT

Sally Walton is a big fan of dreams. Not the kind of dreams we all have at night, tucked away in our beds while our eyes do that weird, rapid-movement...

WILL QUAID TURN “THE ROOKIE” INTO A PRO?

CRITIC DOCTOR EXAMINES: Roger Ebert (suntimes.com), Richard Roeper ("Ebert & Roeper and The Movies" - Buena Vista TV), Joyce Kulhawik ("Hot Ticket" -...

DOES “BLADE 2” BITE DEEPER THAN “BLADE?”

CRITIC DOCTOR EXAMINES: Robert K. Elder (Chicago Tribune), Gary Thompson (philly.com), Leonard Maltin (hottickettv.com) , Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times),...

NEW TECHNOLOGY & THE INTERNET: VIABLE DISTRIBUTION OUTLET OR HOLLYWOOD̵

The seemingly never-ending battle between entertainment conglomerates and technological progress has entered a new phase. Now that the record companies...

TALKING PICTURES: LOOSE CHANGES

By now, everyone knows that the newly-released 20th Anniversary version of Steven Spielberg's E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial contains a whole slew of changes...

TALKING PICTURES: E TEASE

Mickey McGowan is pissed off. "I am. I'm pissed off," he admits, his voice rising ever-so-slightly as his mouth forms the words and tosses them out, like a...

HURRAY FOR HOLLYWOOD, SORT OF

History was made and justice done on a number of fronts Sunday night. Not that deserving people didn't leave the 74th annual Oscars empty handed. For the...

ONE MAN’S VIEW OF THE 2002 ACADEMY AWARDS -or- WHY “A BEAUTIFUL MIND

Huh? Wha? Is it over? The film industry's annual self-congratulatory shot of televised morphine finally ended after nearly 4-and-a-half hours of filler....

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