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    Articles by Ernest Hardy
    Plummer reprises his stage role.
    Barrymore: Christopher Plummer Plays the Hollywood Icon
    By Ernest Hardy • November 27, 2012 12:00 am

    Anyone even slightly versed in Hollywood lore knows that the scandals that make TMZ twitter are child’s play compared to…

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    The AA founder, pictured when still anonymous.
    Bill W: Meet the Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
    By Ernest Hardy • September 11, 2012 12:00 am

    The idea that addiction (drugs, alcoholism) is a disease is still scoffed at in some quarters, but what traction the…

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    Garner and Adams as mother and son.
    The Odd Life of Timothy Green: Jennifer Garner’s...
    By Ernest Hardy • August 14, 2012 12:00 am

    “Lots of people hate anything that’s different,” says Cindy Green (Jennifer Garner) to her Pinterest/vision-board child Timothy (CJ Adams) while…

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    It's good to see Turner back on screen, if not in this movie.
    The Perfect Family: Whatever Happened to Kathleen Turner?
    By Ernest Hardy • May 8, 2012 12:00 am

    There’s a vague echo of John Waters’ Serial Mom in director Anne Renton’s The Perfect Family. But where Waters’ satiric…

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    The booming skyline of Chongqing, China.
    Surviving Progress: Again, the Earth Is Going to...
    By Ernest Hardy • April 17, 2012 12:00 am

    Right from the start, this documentary lets viewers know there will be no easy answers to the questions it’s posing,…

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    Yes, there will be machetes (with Alfridus Godfred pictured).
    The Raid: Redemption: Nonstop Gore and Action From...
    By Ernest Hardy • March 27, 2012 12:00 am

    Lean, fast-moving, and filled with brutally beautiful (or beautifully brutal) game-changing fight sequences, Gareth Evans’ Indonesian martial-arts film lives up…

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    Nik (Halilaj) is born into a blood feud.
    The Forgiveness of Blood: An American Indie Director’s...
    By Ernest Hardy • March 13, 2012 12:00 am

    Director Joshua Marston demonstrated his ability to sustain almost unbearable dramatic tension in his debut feature film, Maria Full of…

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    Little Ish, one of the Rwandan orphans.
    Kinyarwanda: Dramatizing the Rwandan Genocide of the ’90s
    By Ernest Hardy • November 29, 2011 12:00 am

    One of the goals of writer/director Alrick Brown’s Kinyarwanda, set in the midst of the Rwandan genocide of 1994, is…

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    The group in its '80s prime.
    Everyday Sunshine: Remember the ’80s? Remember Fishbone?
    By Ernest Hardy • November 15, 2011 12:00 am

    “They should have been the band that went way beyond any of us who were influenced by them,” says Primus’…

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    Watson as agent of unwelcome truth.
    Oranges and Sunshine: Emily Watson Discovers an Adoption...
    By Ernest Hardy • November 1, 2011 12:00 am

    Based on the true story of the collusion between British and Australian governments to illegally ship tens of thousands of…

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    One of Campbell's mythic figures battles for . . . light rail?
    Finding Joe: Celebrating Joseph Campbell
    By Ernest Hardy • October 25, 2011 12:00 am

    There’s much to savor in director Patrick Takaya Solomon’s documentary about the life—but mainly the work—of the late Joseph Campbell,…

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    Marie Feret as said sister.
    Mozart’s Sister: Music History, Rewritten
    By Ernest Hardy • September 13, 2011 12:00 am

    In heavily outlining the tragedies and injustices that befell the musically gifted older sister of Wolfgang “Amadeus,” writer/director René Féret…

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    Shearer acts as outraged narrator to Katrina's tale.
    The Big Uneasy: Hurricane Katrina Re-Examined, From the...
    By Ernest Hardy • July 5, 2011 12:00 am

    Written and directed by New Orleans resident Harry Shearer, The Big Uneasy illustrates in detail what many folks intuited or…

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    Bonnaire at the board.
    Queen to Play: Yes, an Exciting Film About...
    By Ernest Hardy • May 3, 2011 12:00 am

    After chambermaid Hélène (Sandrine Bonnaire) glimpses an American couple (Jennifer Beals and Dominic Gould) playing chess in the upscale Corsican…

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    Performer Reyna Ponce on stage.
    Circo: A Moving Mexican Circus Documentary
    By Ernest Hardy • April 19, 2011 12:00 am

    “The circus is tough and beautiful,” says a talking head in Aaron Schock’s documentary on the small, struggling, family-owned Circo…

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    The rock icon at rest.
    Lemmy: The Metal Icon in a Fawning Documentary
    By Ernest Hardy • February 1, 2011 12:00 am

    “Lemmy is the baddest motherfucker in the world,” exclaims Dave Grohl in this fawning new music doc. It’s a sentiment…

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    Mirren is lost amid Taymor's Shakespearean muddle.
    The Tempest: Helen Mirren Can’t Save This Shakespearean...
    By Ernest Hardy • December 14, 2010 12:00 am

    In Julie Taymor’s hands, Shakespeare’s The Tempest becomes a listless feminist parable. The duchess Prospera (Helen Mirren) has been forced…

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    Evans was called the Marilyn Monroe of burlesque.
    Behind the Burly Q: Nudies Before They Were...
    By Ernest Hardy • August 3, 2010 12:00 am

    Although now swathed in nostalgic longing/hipster appropriation, the art of burlesque was once a vibrant, multitiered cultural enterprise—escapist family entertainment…

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    The Cal Arts class of 1975 included John Lasseter and Brad Bird.
    Waking Sleeping Beauty: Behind the Scenes at Disney...
    By Ernest Hardy • August 3, 2010 12:00 am

    Last fall saw the documentary Walt & El Grupo, about Walt Disney and a team of his most talented animators…

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    Neshat is stronger with shots than story.
    Women Without Men: Forbidden Love in 1950s Iran
    By Ernest Hardy • July 6, 2010 12:00 am

    Adapted from Shahrnoush Parsipour’s novel of the same name, Women Without Men opens with an act of suicide and the…

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    Bettany and Connelly try to reconcile faith with science.
    Creation: Paul Bettany as Charles Darwin
    By Ernest Hardy • February 16, 2010 12:00 am

    Already a blogosphere punching bag for right-wing Christians, Creation—about Charles Darwin’s writing of On the Origin of Species—commits the sin…

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    Flint and Sam: our kind of animated couple.
    PICK Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: Animation...
    By Ernest Hardy • September 15, 2009 12:00 am

    By the time the brilliant fuck-up of a hero says to the heroine, “Why do you do that—say something super-smart…

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    Mr. Brown goes to Africa.
    PICK Soul Power: James Brown and Others in...
    By Ernest Hardy • July 29, 2009 12:00 am

    Soul Power documents the three-day music festival that accompanied the iconic 1974 Muhammad Ali/George Foreman “Rumble in the Jungle” boxing…

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