Super producer Joel Silver secured The Coen Brothers a ridiculously generous budget for the hilariously glib 1994 screwball comedy The Hudsucker Proxy and good lord did they make the most of it.
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In my latest round-up of blurbs from my forthcoming book The Fractured Mirror I write about The Barefoot Contessa, Fool’s Paradise, The Miracle of the Bells, The Player and Super 8
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My patron-funded jaunt through the films of disgraced Noxzema pitch-woman Rebecca Gayheart continues with a nostalgic look back at the 1997 Tim Robbins/Martin Lawrence mismatched buddy comedy Nothing to Lose.
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Movies about television month kicks off with a fond look back at the trippy Kristin Wiig vehicle Welcome To Me, a surreal character study about a mentally ill woman who wins the lottery and uses the winnings to live out her Oprah Winfrey fantasies.
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