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Diva Down

Franco Zeffirelli imagines cheering up an operatic legend.

By Gregory Weinkauf
Dec 23, 2004

"I know why I hate integrity," moans Jeremy Irons late in Callas Forever. "It's great for the person who has it; it's pure hell for those around it." Indeed. As tacky, ponytailed impresario Larry Kelly, Irons makes for one seriously deranged philosopher, but his dedication to the late opera legend...
Dorkula

Blade confronts the ultimate vampire, and geeks everywhere rejoice.

By Gregory Weinkauf
Dec 9, 2004

They walk among us. They resemble people, approximate our words and actions, present themselves more or less as human. And yet they are more -- a different species, with their own dark legends, their own clandestine meeting places. They are dorks, and they are going to be pretty okay with...
Boy Meets Whirl

A lost lad longs for life in I Am David.

By Gregory Weinkauf
Dec 2, 2004

Movies pushing the indomitablity of human nature tend to make me want to puke, mainly because they're often created with a palpable self-congratulatory air by film-biz insiders whose real-life concept of "suffering" extends to being brought an incorrectly prepared frappuccino. This emetic response is doubled when the featured indomitable human...
Call Him Al

An epic figure turns human -- and fallible -- in Oliver Stone's Alexander.

By Gregory Weinkauf
Nov 25, 2004

If you've ever gone line-dancing with a gaggle of amputees on crank and hallucinogens, you know something of the feeling engendered by viewing Alexander. This broad, bold and ambitious film by Oliver Stone presents itself as a fairly straightforward endeavor, but its rhythms quickly go strange while its participants hobble...
Peter Panache

J.M. Barrie gets a Hollywood makeover in Finding Neverland.

By Gregory Weinkauf
Nov 18, 2004

Oh, that Johnny Depp. Played in some dime-a-dozen rock bands, did some average television, made a few cutesy little movies. Whatever. Yeah, he messes with his looks in a fun way sometimes, but otherwise he merely rides that nicotine-sunken-cheeks thing all the way to the bank. The guy's popular, but...

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