At 9 years old, filmmaker John Lands had such poor penmanship that school officials advised his parents to hold him back a grade.
The Other Guys is hilarious if you have the uncanny ability to check your brain at the door.
Those who like their mysteries with more eerily drawn-out conversations and fewer heart-pounding chases could do a lot worse than watching Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer, his recent adaptation of Robert Harris' novel The Ghost, available now on DVD.
"Take something away and show them what they have," says suave burglar Cobb in Christopher Nolan's lean and cleverly noir-like 1998 directorial debut Following.
Opening with intimate images of mouse dioramas depicting the break-up of a marriage set to The Beatles—yes the band's original—melancholy masterpiece "Fool on the Hill" was a peculiarly brazen way for director Jay Roach to begin his new comedy Dinner for Schmucks.
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Hide your blondes and your biplanes, because 1933’s original King Kong is coming to the big screen at Manship Theatre on March 26.
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