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The Taking of Pelham 123

Astoria Characters: The Man in Transit

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 09.04.2011 | New York
Read More: Madfog.net, Wheelchair, Legg-Perthes Disease, Murder at Transit, High Noon, Astoria Characters, Spondylolisthesis, MTA-NYC Transit, Poetry in Motion, The Taking of Pelham 123, Metrocard, New York Transit Museum, Astoria, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

You can get mad. You can get sad. You can get even. Or, like Clif Militello, you can do all three. By writing a book. Of fiction (wink, wink).

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Astoria Characters: On the Street Where I Live

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: The Taking of Pelham 123, Denzel Washington, Fig Tree, Astoria, French Bulldog, Kaufman Astoria, Tony Scott, Silvercup, Queens, New York Neighborhoods, Greeks, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

Astoria isn't Mayberry or even Lake Wobegon. It's more like Alice's Wonderland, but you don't have to go down a rabbit hole to get here. Astoria comes to you, and once it grabs you, it never lets you go.

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Transformers 2 barely beats Ice Age 3 while Public Enemies opens strong. The 4th of July, 2009 weekend box office in review.

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Denzel Washington, Public Enemies, Michael Mann, Ice Age 3, Scott Mendelson, The Hangover, Movies, The Taking of Pelham 123, Ice Age, Box Office, Transformers 2, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, The Departed, American Gangster, Johnny Depp, Up, News, Will Smith Hancock, State of Play, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

Due to the fact that the top two films (Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen) are literally tied at $42.5 million, I'm ignoring the rankings and just concentrating on the numbers.

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Meditations on a Remake: The Taking Of Pelham 123

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Denzel Washington, The Taking of Pelham 123, Movie Reviews, Michael Caine, Robert Shaw, John Travolta, James Gandolfini, Luis Guzman, Roger Corman, Tony Scott, Movies, Movie Remakes, Walter Matthau, Entertainment News
John Farr

I have to admit it: the new Taking Of Pelham 123 wasn't as bad as I thought it might be.

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Best New York Movies (SLIDESHOW, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Cara Parks | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: New York Movies, Manhattan, King Kong, Do the Right Thing, When Harry Met Sally, Slidepoll, Superman, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Taking of Pelham 123, West Side Story, Shaft, Ghostbusters, The Godfather, Taxi Driver, Saturday Night Fever, Best Movies, New York News

Directors have struggled to capture the essence of New York City since the first talkie, The Jazz Singer, was set here in 1927. At turns romantic and ...

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'Hangover' Upset: Comedy #1 For Second Weekend

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: The Taking of Pelham 123, Bradley Cooper, Film, Up, The Hangover, Box Office, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — "The Hangover" is not going away any time soon. The bachelor-bash comedy remained No. 1 at the weekend box office with $32.8 mill...

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Denzel Washington: John Travolta Struggling Over Son's Death

people.com | Scott Huver | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: The Taking of Pelham 123, Denzel Washington, Jett Travolta, John Travolta, Entertainment News

Just over two weeks ago, Denzel Washington spoke on the phone with John Travolta though it was Travolta, grieving over the death of his son, who did m...

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Give Reboots the Boot

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra, The Taking of Pelham 123, Terminator Salvation, The Dark Knight, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Batman Begins, Tim Burton, Star Trek, Land of the Lost, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

As much as I enjoyed Star Trek, it was a guilty pleasure. Here was yet another movie that was devoted to selling us something we already had.

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