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The Green Hornet (2010)

Seth Rogen and Jay Chou in “The Green Hornet.”
Have Cool Car and Mask (and Sidekick), Will Travel for Justice
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: January 13, 2011

“The Green Hornet,” based on an ancient and much-adapted radio serial, with Seth Rogen in the title role and Michel Gondry behind the camera, is quite a bit less than the sum of its appealing parts. More

Every Day - NYT Critics' Pick

Live Schreiber, Ezra Miller, Skylar Fortgang and Helen Hunt in “Every Day.”
If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Another
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: January 13, 2011

It is useful to know that Richard Levine, the writer and director of “Every Day,” was one of the brains behind that guiltiest of depraved TV pleasures: “Nip/Tuck.” In the movie his presumed surrogate, Ned (Live Schreiber), is a writer for a popular New York-based medical drama whose creative team sits around at meetings making wisecracks like “sex with one’s dog is the new sex with one’s cat” while dreaming up outrageous plot turns involving cannibalism, bestiality and castration. More

A Useful Life - NYT Critics' Pick

Jorge Jellinek in “A Useful Life.”
Death of an Art House Means a Start to a Life
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: January 12, 2011

“A Useful Life,” Federico Veiroj’s sneaky second feature, chronicles the death throes of a small independent movie theater in Montevideo, Uruguay, through the sad eyes of Jorge, its longtime programmer. As played by the Uruguayan film critic Jorge Jellinek (who resembles a less scary Alfred Molina), Jorge is portly and indoors pale, a middle-aged slab of calm and competence. More

I did not know that...

“In Dubai, everyone is bisexual,” a 22-year-old Columbia University accounting student said at the party in November. “But it’s such a different scene there.” Calling Habibi “kind of trashy compared to what most Arabs, at least in Dubai, are used to,” he said: “I mean, there are street vendors here.” Nodding in the direction of a man standing in the shadows nearby, the student said: “You can spot the ones who sell kebabs on the street. It’s not difficult.” More

Whinge

The new RoboHelp is case-sensitive about styles. The old one was not.

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