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This Weeks Movie Reviews: Shut
Up & Sing
Directed and produced by Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck. With Natalie
Maines, Martie Maguire, Emily Robison and Simon Renshaw. The Weinstein
Company, 2006. 93 minutes. R. In 2003, on the eve of the Iraq War, Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines said from a London stage, "We're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." It was just a quip, a comment meant to garner applause and cheers. Until it wasn't. Read more...
Blood
Diamond
Written and directed by Edward Zwick. Cinematography, Eduardo Serra.
Music, James Newton Howard. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou
and Jennifer Connelly. Warner Bros. Pictures, 2006. R. 138 minutes.
A man arrives at a refugee camp in Guinea looking for his family. Denied entry, the man stands despondent at a fence until, as luck would have it, his family happens by. Since the camp holds in excess of one million exiles, calling the reunion convenient is like saying the ocean is wet. It's just one of a number of lapses in Blood Diamond that not even several strong performances can overcome. Read more...
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