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2005 Stories by Bill Gallo

• Beautiful Dreamer

  published December 22, 2005

  The gifted Irish novelist and filmmaker Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Michael Collins) says that his overriding concern is "how... More >>

• Backhanded Slapstick

  published December 22, 2005

  The Jerry Lewis chromosome is running amok again inside Jim Carrey, and if you don't feel like getting clubbed half to death with a slapstick,... More >>

• Homo on the Range

  published December 15, 2005

  It's not hard to predict how Ang Lee's controversial Brokeback Mountain will play in John Wayne country. This romantic tragedy about... More >>

• All Yours

  published November 24, 2005

  Most movies intend to entertain or inform us, or maybe momentarily take our minds off personal problems -- that bullet-riddled body in the trunk,... More >>

• Foiled Again

  published October 27, 2005

  It's been 85 years since Douglas Fairbanks slashed his way into the top tax bracket as the masked hero Zorro, and Hollywood still can find no... More >>

• Played for Fools

  published September 29, 2005

  Anyone vaguely familiar with the rules of golf knows that you may not improve your lie, ground your club in a sand trap or -- most grievous of all... More >>

• Love in Gloom

  published September 22, 2005

  By conservative estimate, Tim Burton stands to rake in half a billion dollars at the box office this year, thanks to a childlike chocolate maker... More >>

• Southern Discomfort

  published August 18, 2005

  Like hundreds of creative southerners before them, Phil Morrison and Angus MacLachlan have Thomas Wolfe in their bones. The media notes for... More >>

• Funky Bunch

  published August 11, 2005

  The old John Wayne-Dean Martin hayburner The Sons of Katie Elder wasn't a very good movie the first time around -- Dino and a cowboy hat go... More >>

• On the Road Again

  published August 4, 2005

  The contentedly independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has brought his restless energy to a series of surreal road movies that move nicely along on... More >>

• November Mourn

  published August 4, 2005

  Sure you want to be inside Sophie Jacobs's head? The poor woman's cabeza is so stuffed with guilt and fear, so tormented by grief and what... More >>

• Hello from Kazakhstan

  published July 28, 2005

  One attraction of foreign films is the glimpse they provide of exotic lands. But after viewing a startling coming-of-age drama called... More >>

• Bombs and Bikinis

  published July 28, 2005

  If the Navy is looking for splashy recruiting tools, it could do worse than Stealth, a zillion-dollar action movie stuffed with... More >>

• Free At Last

  published July 21, 2005

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• Send In the Clones

  published July 21, 2005

  It should come as no surprise that the hero and heroine of the new Michael Bay action extravaganza are clones. Exact copies of other people. You... More >>

• Chocolate Kisses

  published July 14, 2005

  Roald Dahl's inner child was evidently a contrary lad -- precocious, dark-minded, contemptuous of adult supervision and fueled by a sense of... More >>

• Could Be Verse

  published July 7, 2005

  The British indie filmmaker Sally Potter, a former dancer, lyricist and performance artist, clearly has a taste for adventure. In 1992 that led... More >>

• 24-Hour Pouty People

  published June 30, 2005

  So little time, so much trouble. In the 24-hour period that's dissected in Heights, the first feature from Harvard/Cambridge/USC... More >>

• Problems at Home

  published June 9, 2005

  The consequences of marital discord in Mr. & Mrs. Smith go way beyond sleeping on the couch or maintaining icy silence at the... More >>

• Ball Busters

  published June 9, 2005

  As everyone knows, home-run king Barry Bonds is a lovable fellow -- considerate of teammates and fans, courteous to reporters, invariably modest... More >>

• Excess Hollywood

  published May 26, 2005

  By our count, there are but two sequels waiting to have oil rubbed on their backs this summer -- one featuring an evil lord named Vader, the other... More >>

• Thick and Rich

  published May 26, 2005

  Layer Cake, the new British crime drama from first-time director Matthew Vaughn, is a block of granite struggling to liberate the... More >>

• Home Fires Burning

  published May 26, 2005

  If you're trying to navigate the gulf between the absolutist view inside Fortress Bush and the relativist politics of Western Europe, you need go... More >>

• Mind Gamey

  published May 19, 2005

  Matthew Parkhill's Dot the I is the kind of tricked-up mental exercise that may intrigue the most impressionable film school... More >>

• What Ever Happened to Lady Jane?

  published May 12, 2005

  Directed by Robert Luketic. With Jane Fonda, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Vartan and Wanda Sykes. Rated PG-13. More >>