May 4, 2010
Movie adaptations of novels often prove to be cases of “they should have left well enough alone.” With remakes of adaptations, the risk can be doubly great. Fortunately for Hollywood, the early books of James M. Cain seem to have written with films in mind. Cain was proof of the old axiom that pulp fiction [...]
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April 23, 2010
This new biopic from HBO, starring Al Pacino as the infamous Jack “Dr. Death” Kervorkian, was directed by Barry Levinson (Diner, Rain Man, Wag the Dog), written by Adam Mazer, and co-stars, Susan Sarandon, Danny Huston, Brenda Vaccaro and John Goodman. The film follows Kervorkian’s crusade to offer assisted suicide to the terminally ill as [...]
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