Tag: Congo
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Chris Rock Brought The Wrong Kind Of Pain To His Live Netflix Special
27 years ago, Chris Rock resurrected his career with one of the greatest hours of stand-up comedy I’ve ever seen. I was a month away from graduating college when “Bring the Pain” aired after the HBO Saturday night premiere of “Congo” or something less sublime when Eddie Murphy’s once-prized protege, who’d been ignominiously fired from…
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How Are We All Not Constantly Screaming About ‘Congo’ 25 Years Later?
Without a 2020 summer movie season to speak of, we’ve been forced to look back on the mid-year blockbusters of yore, to a different era, to a time when a studio would pay absolutely out the ass to make a film in which Laura Linney blasts an entire tribe of homicidal gorillas to fuck with…
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Anne V. Coates, Oscar-Winning Film Editor for ‘Lawrence of Arabia,’ Dies at 92
English-born film editor Anne V. Coates, who won an Academy Award for cutting David Lean’s classic “Lawrence of Arabia,” has died. She was 92.She earned that 1963 Oscar: In addition to its impressive balance of imposing desert landscapes and vivid human drama (culled from some 31 miles of footage), the nearly four-hour epic contains one…