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Action on November 8th, 2006 by Chad Everett
You might think that The Dukes of Hazzard return in this big screen fiasco, but you’d be wrong. About the only thing that remains the same between this movie and the original The Dukes of Hazzard
is the name, the name of the players and the General Lee.
The Duke boys do shoot those arrows that explode when they hit something, and the place names are the same.
Oh, and you could almost count Willie Nelson, because he used to play with Waylon Jennings. Willie plays the new Uncle Jesse, and Waylon used be The Balladeer. But that’s about as close as it gets, and that’s also the end of the comparison. Sad, really.
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Posted to
Drama on June 21st, 2006 by Chad Everett
Remember, remember, the 5th of November…
On November 5, 1605, Guy Fawkes was caught in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament with several barrels of gunpowder, intent on leveling the building in a statement of rebellion. Some 400 years later, a terrorist has taken on a Fawkesian mask and assumed his role as speaker of the people in an attempt to remake the government.
Meanwhile, Natalie Portman has escaped a potentially damaging past of parents who were rabble-rousers and now glides through her own life, but one night she comes into contact with the self-labeled V, who rescues her from those who would do her in and delivers a lovely alliterative verse in the process.
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