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By MICHAEL SRAGOW AND CHRIS KALTENBACH and MICHAEL SRAGOW AND CHRIS KALTENBACH,SUN MOVIE CRITICS | July 21, 2006
Capsules by Michael Sragow and Chris Kaltenbach. Full reviews at baltimoresun.com/movies. A Scanner Darkly, -- Richard Linklater's nightmare drug movie, should be continually compelling. But it loses its fizz after a strong series of pops. Instead of a moviemaking vision, it merely has a look: an unsettling, changeable new form of animated live action. And, instead of a lucid, original take on wigged-out junkies and the government that spies on and manipulates them, it slavishly follows Philip K. Dick's 1977 novel of the same name.
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By CHRIS KALTENBACH and CHRIS KALTENBACH,SUN REPORTER | June 25, 2006
SUPERMAN HAS ALWAYS BEEN the most uncomplicated of superheroes. He's all-powerful, as long as there's no kryptonite around. He's not conflicted, except occasionally about his feelings for Lois Lane. He's good, and kind, and really does believe in "truth, justice and the American way." He's not prone to melancholia, or skirting the law, or wishing he were someone else. Compared to other superheroes, the Man of Steel's practically Mother Teresa. Consider the brooding Batman, who these days is more vigilante than hero.
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By BOSTON GLOBE | November 13, 2005
It's Superman Tom De Haven Chronicle / 425 pages Tom De Haven's giddy joy ride of a novel, It's Superman!, returns the famous comic book tale to its roots in 1930s America, with Clark Kent as an awkward high school kid in rural Kansas. The story begins with Clark trying to explain to a local sheriff how a wanted criminal fired his gun point-blank at Clark but somehow ended up dead when the bullet ricocheted. For as long as Clark can remember, such unexplained things have happened to him. He emerges from serious accidents unscathed, can set fires with a focused stare, and can even drive nails into a fence post with his fist.
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By Childs Walker and Childs Walker,SUN STAFF | November 8, 2003
One woman told Noel Neill she had inspired all the little girls who wanted to heal patients and litigate rather than cook and clean. A graying gentleman said that as a child, he had dreamed of stealing Neill from her notably hunky on-screen boyfriend. Another man cut to the chase. "You were hot," he told the 82-year-old Neill. These are the things people say to you when they've thought of you as Lois Lane, star reporter for The Daily Planet and love interest of Superman, for the past 50 years.
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By Chris Kaltenbach and Chris Kaltenbach,SUN MOVIE CRITIC | February 15, 2002
Kiss Me Kate, the 1953 backstage comedy about the dueling lovers starring in a musical version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, will be this weekend's Saturday matinee at the Charles. But wait, there's more! As if it isn't enough to get a rare chance to see this old-fashioned movie musical on the big screen, you'll also get to see it in 3-D, as the filmmakers originally intended. The former husband-and-wife team of Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson star here, as - and what a stretch this is!
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By Chris Kaltenbach | August 20, 1997
TCM offers legendary hoofer Ann Miller a chance to shine tonight.The evening revolves around "Private Screenings: Ann Miller" (8 p.m.-9 p.m., repeats 11 p.m.-midnight), in which the engaging Miller reflects on a Hollywood career stretching back to when she was a teen-ager (she co-starred with the Marx Brothers in "Room Service" when she was only 15).From there, the folks at Turner offer a look at some of her finest films, including the great "On the Town" (9 p.m.-11 p.m.), where she's a tap-dancing anthropologist with her eye on Jules Munshin, one of three sailors -- the others are Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra -- visiting New York while on shore leave; and "Kiss Me Kate" (midnight-2 a.m.)