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Gridiron Gang

Heavily padded football movie hits all the familiar notes

By Bill Gallo
Sep 14, 2006

The Rock -- formerly known as Flex Kavana and, a bit later, as Rocky Maivia -- was a practicing actor long before he turned to movies and started taking down $12 million paychecks. The happily deluded throngs who used to watch him lay signature moves like the People's Elbow or...
The Illusionist

Eerie melodrama explores the dark arts in turn-of-the-century Vienna

By Bill Gallo
Aug 17, 2006

If, at this remove, we can imagine Vienna in the late 1890s, we behold a great imperial capital in ferment. Gustav Mahler is not only reinventing the harmonic structure of serious music, he is getting his head seriously shrunk by Sigmund Freud. Arnold Schöenberg takes painting lessons from eroticist Richard...
London Fog

Woody Allen's second straight English excursion is a failed return to comedy

By Bill Gallo
Jul 27, 2006

For 35 years, Woody Allen was a long shot to stray into the Bronx or Staten Island -- much less the alien reaches of London, England. The creator of Manhattan has always been joined to his chosen borough like pastrami on rye, so when he ventured abroad last year to...
Free Kicks

Once in a Lifetime remembers when soccer players lived like rock stars

By Bill Gallo
Jul 27, 2006

When the clueless U.S. men's soccer team got dumped in the first round of the World Cup last month, American sports fans generally shrugged and went about their business. Aside from its popularity among millions of suburban schoolchildren, what most other earthlings call "the beautiful game" still arouses about the...
Deep Doo-doo

A modern-day Bonnie and Clyde are after your money again

By Bill Gallo
Jun 22, 2006

About three quarters of the way through Waist Deep, the hero of the piece -- an indestructible ex-convict who calls himself O2 (2 Fast 2 Furious star Tyrese Gibson) -- peers out through the swirling smoke and the bloody mayhem of an urban killing ground and experiences a revelation. "Somethin'...

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