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2006 Stories by Robert Wilonsky

• Eels with Strings

  published March 9, 2006

  Guess you had to be there, at Town Hall in New York City last July, though from the sounds of it, not so much. Thomas Bartlett, writing last... More >>

• Oh Grow Up

  published March 9, 2006

  A star who turned into a black hole somewhere between the release of, oh, The Wedding Planner and Sahara (or How to Lose a Guy in... More >>

• Get Down With Dave

  published March 2, 2006

  The world premiere of Dave Chappelle's Block Party at the Toronto International Film Festival last September had the vibe of a sold-out... More >>

• The Price Is Wrong

  published February 16, 2006

  Freedomland manages a seemingly impossible feat: It's both turgid and overwrought, eliciting the shriek that fades into a yawn... More >>

• Idle Curiosity

  published February 9, 2006

  That Curious George existed at all — much less as a franchise, an icon enduring some 65 years — was a result of "happy... More >>

• Hacked

  published February 9, 2006

  It is often written of Harrison Ford that he's the most profitable movie star in history, to the tune of some $3.8 billion in box-office receipts... More >>

• Clay's the Thing

  published February 9, 2006

  Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (DreamWorks) Not since Finding Nemo has there been a movie... More >>

• Mild Wilde

  published February 2, 2006

  A Good Woman, Mike Barker's adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play Lady Windermere's Fan, has been gathering dust for some time. It... More >>

• Who's Laughing?

  published January 19, 2006

  Albert Brooks, the once-funny comic turned filmmaker, plays a once-funny comic turned filmmaker named Albert Brooks in Looking for Comedy in... More >>

• Double Fault

  published January 19, 2006

  The critical consensus has Match Point as Woody Allen's finest film since... oh, let's see... Bullets Over Broadway, is it? Or... More >>

• A Bounteous Bunch

  published January 12, 2006

  Sam Peckinpah's Legendary Westerns Collection (Warner Bros.) At a mere $42 through most websites, this four-film... More >>

• Jesus Saves

  published January 5, 2006

  Hands down the funniest bit from the summer's raunch smorgasbord The Aristocrats was hearing Sarah Silverman tell the infamously profane... More >>