Monday, Jan. 14, at 6:45 pm/ETChinatown | HBOSForget the godawful Bucket List and pretty much everything he’s done since The Shining (The Departed notwithstanding): This is the Jack we like to think of when we think Nicholson. He plays Jake, a sleazy, 1930s private dick who winds up with a noseful of trouble after taking on what looks like a routine case.Tuesday, Jan. 15, 8 pmFight Club | HBO2It's not David Fincher’s best film — this year's Zodiac gets our vote — but his adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel has found its cult, and it might prove Fincher's most enduring. If you don’t already know what it's about, we're not telling. After all, the first rule of Fight Club is... well, you must know at least that much.Wednesday, Jan. 16, 10:05 pmLive Flesh | FLX Pedro Almodovar made the switch from candy-color sex farces to sincere, full-blown melodrama with The Flower of My Secret, but he didn’t really hit his stride until this very loose, very sexy adap...
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Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk. The image of oil-company stooges gets slapped around but good when Scream and the boys are assigned to protect pipeline workers in a story line swiped from Fahrenheit 9/11. After complaining about how guards in a private security firm make $30,000 a month doing the same thing they do (oddly, there was no mention of Dubya's cut of American troops' combat pay), the squad enters a village where the inhabitants don't really care for Western types, especially if they're oil drillers. These folks would fall over themselves to shoot J.R. But that doesn't deter an oil-company stooge from trying to impose democracy on them, which only serves to turn an imam's wife intp an outcast. Goaded by Mr. Oil Stooge, the woman has the nerve to suggest that the Americans should build a school for their village rather than a mosque. That's when Tariq's BS detector starts to go off. He quotes Jake Gittes from Chinatown ("You think you know what's going on, but
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