"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
Alan Dale earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He currently works as a corporate tax attorney in Portland, Oregon.
He is the author of What We Do Best: American Movie Comedies of the 1990s and Comedy Is a Man in Trouble: Slapstick in American Movies.
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Movie Review: Capote and Walk the Line: Two Kinds of Bad Boy
Text vs. performance: gimme the white-hot stars!
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Movie Review: Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic: Silversmith
A polluted oasis for refugees from "positive," heartwarming, family-friendly entertainment.
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Movie Review: Charlize Theron in North Country - Over the Waterfall
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Opinion: Harold Lloyd on DVD
Somebody tell the guy with the race goggles at the Washington Post: Harold Lloyd's work is universal because of the slapstick.
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Movie Review: George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck.: "The half truth was elevated to the position of a principle"
The romance of Edward R. Murrow, and the misconstruction of the "McCarthy era."
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Movie Review: Flightplan and Proof: Blondes, Grim and Dreary
Lighten up, ladies.
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Movie Review: Julian Fellowes' Separate Lies - Precisely
A completely convincing portrait of a functioning comfortless marriage and a triumph for Julian Fellowes and his cast.
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Movie Review: Jun Ichikawa's Tony Takitani: One False Step
Aestheticism and the fallen man.
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Movie Review: The Constant Gardener and Lord of War: No Evidence
A melodrama, a comic book, and their authors' recreational politics.
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March of the Penguins and Grizzly Man: Pathetic, Fallacious, Poetic, Prophetic
Two animal documentaries: an ironist rushes in where romantics fear to tread.
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