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TALKING PICTURES: SPY VS. SPY

By | June 2002

Writer David Templeton takes interesting people to the movies in his ongoing quest for the ultimate post-film conversation. Facing a summer Cineplex awash in Secret Agent movies, espionage expert James Bamford helps separate the “Bad Company” from the good…

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TALKING PICTURES: SPY VS. SPY

As he stands up, preparing to exit the jam-packed movie theater where we’ve just seen Bad Company – the critically-reviled, Jerry Bruckheimer-produced,...

TALKING PICTURES: FREE SPIRIT

Stephanie Mills is a connoisseur of what she calls, “the subversive moment.” She nurtures, observes, collects and records such moments the way some...

WHAT WOMEN WANT IN THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE

George Lucas' "How To Get a Gorgeous and Powerful Female to Fall in Love With You in 10 Easy Steps" 1. (General personality) Be a whining, sniveling little...

TALKING PICTURES: JEDI REVOLUTION

What was that? What did the voice on the phone just say about Anakin Skywalker? "Anakin Skywalker," repeats Aaron McGruder, laughing, "is a whiny little...

RECONSTRUCTING WOODY

On September 11th a young teacher watched events in New York City unfold on a television in her Tehran apartment. Like many in Iran, she was appalled and...

RECONSTRUCTING WOODY

And it took the crumbling of the World Trade Center to bring him out. While the filmmaker's romance with Soon-Yi Previn has been controversial, his love...

WILL “SPIDER-MAN” DRAW YOU INTO HIS WEB?

CRITIC DOCTOR EXAMINES: Leonard Maltin (hottickettv.com), Glenn Whipp (u.dailynews.com), Owen Gleiberman (ew.com), Ron Wells (filmthreat.com), James...

TALKING PICTURES: WEB MASTER

It's late-afternoon in Baltimore, on opening day of the new movie Spider-Man, and Dan Poole's cell phone won't stop ringing. Across the country, armies of...

EVERQUEST PLAYERS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLOWNS

Who in their wildest and wettest dreams could have ever imagined that a review of a 16-minute documentary about an Internet computer game would raise such...

TALKING PICTURES: FEMALE TROUBLE

It is an unnerving experience to read the last two pages of a novel while its author sits nearby, calmly pretending not to watch you read. But because I...

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