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"Brüno The last of the three Sacha Baron Cohen characters from Da Ali G Show to get it's own feature film. Comparisons to the previous film Borat are unavoidable as the filmmakers practically encouraged it. With pretty much the same filmmaking team, Brüno is clearly an attempt to recreate the success fo Borat by sticking to the same structure. Both films are a documentary style with a mix of staged and improvised scenes about a foreigner coming to America with a quest. He travels around the country to different venues with his comrade who he gets angry at and abandons before being reunited at the end. So there are no chances taken on the structure. If it worked for you last time, hopefully it will work for you again. Just don't expect any surprises there. Now about the actual character and the meat of the scenes. Here is where Brüno in the movie is different from the movie Borat, and most of the time it doesn't work as well. If you could describe Borat with on ... "
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5 Lovable Movie Racists
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"Don’t you just hate when the movies make you care about a bigot? Sure, racists are technically humans, but that doesn’t mean we need to sympathize with them, right? No matter how great the film, it should be very difficult to accept the softening of intolerant people. Yet the lovable racist is not uncommon in cinema. In fact, out in theaters right now are two films dealing with this type of character. The Reader presents a cold Concentration Camp guard (Kate Winslet) for whom we’re meant to shed a tear, and Gran Torino focuses on a War Veteran stereotype (Clint Eastwood) who may evoke from the audience as much amusement as disgust. Maybe it’s like picking a scab, watching these kinds of movies. Some great films, such as Downfall, may only welcome an understanding of someone so heinous as Adolph Hitler, but other films have allowed us to totally enjoy racist protagonists of lesser offense. Check out the following examples to see "
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Preaching to the choir
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"“The Christian God can easily be pictured as the same god as the many gods of ancient civilizations.” “Question with boldness the existence of God." “My mind is my own church.” “Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religions.” “I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue.” These all may seem like the inflammatory ramblings of the Right Wing's favorite whipping boy Bill Maher, and not quotes from our Founding Fathers (Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, George Washington and Ben Franklin, respectively. Look it up.). But they serve sort of the thesis statements for Maher's documentary “Religulous.” Now whether you wish to take theological advice from a former actor whose previous cinematic body of work includes the Mr. T opus “D.C. Cab” and “Cannibal Women and the Avocado Jungle of Death” is your own call.
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"This review originally appeared during the Toronto Film Festival. We’re re-running it because Religulous opens in theaters today. “I’m on the street corner peddling doubt.” That’s how Bill Maher categorizes his personal attitude towards and mission against religion in Religulous, and that’s sort of how I feel about Maher’s professional schtick: I am aggressively, even evangelically, skeptical. I’ll stick around and watch his HBO show when I catch it whilst flipping channels, mostly because impressed by his ability to make the quick change from sub-Leno, pun-dependent one-liners to actually asking hard-hitting, legitimately provocative questions of his panelists. On Real Time, Maher uses (mostly bad) jokes to soften up both his guests and his audience for the serious discourse that inevitably follows, and even though much of Maher’s humor is unbelievably hokey and old-fashioned, there’s something admirable about the marriage he’s arranged between his desire to entertain and his com ... "
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"This review originally appeared during the Toronto Film Festival. We’re re-running it because Religulous opens in theaters today. “I’m on the street corner peddling doubt.” That’s how Bill Maher categorizes his personal attitude towards and mission against religion in Religulous, and that’s sort of how I feel about Maher’s professional schtick: I am aggressively, even evangelically, skeptical. I’ll stick around and watch his HBO show when I catch it whilst flipping channels, mostly because impressed by his ability to make the quick change from sub-Leno, pun-dependent one-liners to actually asking hard-hitting, legitimately provocative questions of his panelists. On Real Time, Maher uses (mostly bad) jokes to soften up both his guests and his audience for the serious discourse that inevitably follows, and even though much of Maher’s humor is unbelievably hokey and old-fashioned, there’s something admirable about the marriage he’s arranged between his desire to entertain and his com ... "
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Religulous Review, Toronto 2008
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"“I’m on the street corner peddling doubt.” That’s how Bill Maher categorizes his personal attitude towards and mission against religion in Religulous, and that’s sort of how I feel about Maher’s professional schtick: I am aggressively, even evangelically, skeptical. I’ll stick around and watch his HBO show when I catch it whilst flipping channels, mostly because impressed by his ability to make the quick change from sub-Leno, pun-dependent one-liners to actually asking hard-hitting, legitimately provocative questions of his panelists. On Real Time, Maher uses (mostly bad) jokes to soften up both his guests and his audience for the serious discourse that inevitably follows, and even though much of Maher’s humor is unbelievably hokey and old-fashioned, there’s something admirable about the marriage he’s arranged between his desire to entertain and his compulsion to interrogate and lay blame. Hopeful that his feature-length collaboration with Larry Charles would offer a similar balanc ... "
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"“I’m on the street corner peddling doubt.” That’s how Bill Maher categorizes his personal attitude towards and mission against religion in Religulous, and that’s sort of how I feel about Maher’s professional schtick: I am aggressively, even evangelically, skeptical. I’ll stick around and watch his HBO show when I catch it whilst flipping channels, mostly because impressed by his ability to make the quick change from sub-Leno, pun-dependent one-liners to actually asking hard-hitting, legitimately provocative questions of his panelists. On Real Time, Maher uses (mostly bad) jokes to soften up both his guests and his audience for the serious discourse that inevitably follows, and even though much of Maher’s humor is unbelievably hokey and old-fashioned, there’s something admirable about the marriage he’s arranged between his desire to entertain and his compulsion to interrogate and lay blame. Hopeful that his feature-length collaboration with Larry Charles would offer a similar balanc ... "
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War is hell-alrious
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"At one point in "Tropic Thunder," the new comedy from writer/director/star Ben Stiller, co-star Robert Downey Jr. plays and Australian Method actor portraying a black southern soldier pretending to be a humble Asian rice farmer. And what's Ms. Greatest Living Actor Today, Meryl Streep, doing in the next theater? Oh, that's right. She's working on her tan, kicking it in the Greek Isles and singing ABBA tunes. Come Oscar time, if there is any justice, Downey would at least make the "For Your Consideration" rounds for his role as the uber-intense Kirk Lazarus. Downey Jr. treats his high-wire performance with such dignity and devotion that he spends almost the entire film in blackface without once seeming condescending or racist. But let us back up a bit, shall we? "Thunder" is not only a scathing little indictment on the film industry, but, minute for minute, one of the funniest films released this year, overcoming the third-act slump th "
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A Hidden Gem
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"Who knew this film existed? Alan Arkin as Clouseau is a prospective treat beyond imagination; a concept simultaneously ridiculous and brilliant. The DVD cover alone is enough to induce uncontrollable laughter, and the film likewise delivers. That's not to say that the plot is brilliant or that the writing is exceptional, but Arkin's interpretation of Clouseau is wholly his own. Comparisons to Peter Sellers' characterization are unavoidable and there are certain similarities that are inescapable, but they are the very ones that give the overall Clouseau such charm. What Arkin adds to the role is pure creativity: an American actor playing Franglish. The most interesting element of Arkin's version is his vocal inflection. Brooklyn + Clouseau = 1968 Borat. That's right! Listen to Arkin speak: the way he seems to be reaching for the next English word; the verbal pauses; the slightly nasal delivery. It's a clear precursor for Borat! So, when watching this film, don't go in lookin ... "
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"Our good friends at the Associated Press are reporting that an Arkansas cage fighting event recently got the Sacha Baron Cohen treatment. Crowds in Arkansas came for the lure of cage fighting and $1 beer, but police say what they got instead was men ripping each others' clothes off and kissing . "We had a contract for cage fighting. We were deceived," said Dwight Duncan, president and CEO of Four States Fair Grounds in Texarkana, where the first of two Arkansas fights raised suspicions last month. Matt Labov, a Los Angeles-based publicist for Baron Cohen, said he had no comment Monday about the faked fights. One of Baron Cohen's movies is due out next year. The day after the June 5 Texarkana bout, Fort Smith's convention center hosted "Blue Collar Brawlin.'" Fort Smith police Sgt. Adam Holland said organizers told him a character named "Straight Dave" would goad a planted audience member into the ring for a fight. The two men would then wrestle, rip away some of their clothes and ... "
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