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2004, Movie, R, 173 mins

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Clocking in at just under three hours, Oliver Stone's epic biography of Alexander the Great is a $150 million-plus toga party that's nearly as megalomaniacally overreaching as its subject. While it's never boring, the film's entertainment value lies in all the wrong places: ridiculously staged grand tragedy, overblown acting and a lot of inadvertently campy humor. Alexandria, 363 B.C. Forty years after Alexander's death at the age of 32, grizzled old Ptolemy (Anthony Hopkins)... read more leave a comment
Year: 2004
Rated R

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Cast
Colin Farrell: Alexander the Great
Angelina Jolie: Olympias
Val Kilmer: Philip
Anthony Hopkins: Old Ptolemy
Rosario Dawson: Roxane
Jared Leto: Hephaistion

 

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  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus Has a New Attitude | Today's News: Our Take | 3/13/2006
    Get. Out! Seinfeld's Elaine is moving into CBS' cushy Monday-night sitcom neighborhood. In The New Adventures of Old Christine (premiering tonight at 9:30 pm/ET), Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays Christine Campbell, a health-club owner juggling single motherhood, an ex-husband (In Good Company's Clark Gregg) who's now dating a younger gal also named Christine (hence our title), and, of course, her own middling love life. Here's what the Emmy winner had to tell TV Guide about her new prime-time gig. TV Guide: In its ads for The New Adventures of Old Christine, CBS is touting the show as a comedy about "the new American mom." How would you describe it?Julia Louis-Dreyfus: It's a realistic take on being a single working mo read more
  • MORE LEGAL BRIEFS | Today's News: Our Take | 8/11/2005
    The judge in the Colin Farrell sex-tape case has granted a preliminary injunction making it unlawful to distribute the 15-minute video of the actor and former flame/Playmate Nicole Narain in "various acts of copulation." Where was this judge when Alexander came out on DVD?... Speaking of which: Academy Award-winning director (but no, not for Alexander) Oliver Stone has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor possession of marijuana while driving charge from May.
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  • PANDER MUCH? | Today's News: Our Take | 7/27/2005
    "Renegade" director Oliver Stone has recut his bomb, Alexander, to straighten out the bi conqueror before the movie's Aug. 2 DVD release. "You cannot associate homosexuality with the military in this country," he told The New York Post. "From the day we opened, we did not do business in the South." And that couldn't possibly have been because folks there had read the reviews. read more

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