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  • September 2008

    • Lakeview Bullies Box Office

      Variety  |  Sep 21, 08 6:00 PM CDT

      Lakeview Bullies Box Office

      (Newser) - Samuel L. Jackson thriller Lakeview Terrace debuted at number one over a soft box office weekend, Variety reports. Banking $15.6 million, it ousted Burn After Reading ($11.3 million) and outpaced My Best Friend’s Girl ($8.3 million), Igor ($8 million), and Righteous Kill ($7.7 million). Ricky Gervais laffer Ghost Town notched only eighth with $5.2 million despite good reviews. More »

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      movie  • box office  • Brad Pitt  • Kate Hudson  • thriller  • Coen brothers  • Samuel L. Jackson  • Righteous Kill  • Burn After Reading  • Dane Cook  • Lakeview Terrace

    • Lakeview Not a Pretty Picture

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  Sep 19, 08 11:50 AM CDT

      Lakeview Not a Pretty Picture

      (Newser) - Lakeview Terrace labors mightily to turn its B-movie cop/neighbor-from-hell premise into “deep social commentary about race, or real estate, or something,” writes Chris Farnsworth of E!, “but the result is an inexplicable mess.” The tensions between Samuel L. Jackson’s loose cannon cop and the interracial couple next door build nicely, but the end is “loud, dumb, generic, and over-the-top,” says James Berardinelli of Reelviews. More »

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      movie review  • race relations  • Samuel L. Jackson

  • August 2008
  • February 2008

    • Jumper Lands With a Thud

      Metacritic  |  Feb 15, 08 8:47 AM CST

      Jumper Lands With a Thud

      (Newser) - The concept for Jumper seems promising: An awkward teenage boy who discovers he has the power to instantly teleport himself to anywhere on the globe is targeted for elimination by religious fanatics. And in some respects the film delivers on that promise. "The jumping effect is faultlessly executed," writes Empire 's Olly Richards, adding that the movie "packs some cracking action" into its relatively short 88-minute running time. More »

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      movie  • movie review  • thriller  • science fiction  • fantasy  • Samuel L. Jackson  • Hayden Christensen

  • August 2007

    • 'Champ' Packs a Weak Punch

      Rotten Tomatoes  |  Aug 24, 07 11:45 AM CDT

      'Champ' Packs a Weak Punch

      (Newser) - The newsroom-meets-boxing-ring drama "Resurrecting the Champ" is slow on its feet, critics say, weighed down by its own sentimentality, despite a powerful performance by Samuel L. Jackson—"slumming again in a role miles beneath him," writes Stephen Hunter of the Washington Post —and a taste of the nuts and bolts of journalism.  More »

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      movie  • film  • movie review  • boxing  • Samuel L. Jackson

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