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REVIEW: Handsome Takers is Nothing But a Stuffed Suit

Takers is a sterling example of how a movie can take a basic, appealing idea — bank robbers who plan their infrequent crimes so meticulously they never get caught, living the high-life in between jobs — and turn it into something that you could easily watch while brushing your teeth, clipping your toenails, plucking your eyebrows. The movie at least attempts to offer some textbook pleasures: Director John Luessenhop gives us several elaborate shoot-outs, a killer explosion here and there, even a glitzy-classy shopping montage (and you thought those were only for girly movies like Sex and the City ). But Takers is so indistinguished that it starts fading from memory as soon as the end credits start rolling. It comes to the party overdressed and still fails to make an impression.

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REVIEW: Handsome Takers is Nothing But a Stuffed Suit

Is Kathryn Bigelow a Jobsexual? [On Set Romance]

Journalist Deborah Schoeneman says out loud when much of Hollywood already suspected: Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow —who was once married to director James Cameron —is dating Hurt Locker screenwriter Mark Boal . Some choose mates for congruous sex lives, politics, laughter, or bookshelves. And there’s the jobsexual: a person who either works so much, or loves so much to work that she always seems to end up dating the guy one desk over. (Oscar statuettes tend to shine a flattering light.) Bigelow worked creatively with ex-husband James Cameron, too, including one of her infrequent screen appearances in a music video he directed for an ’80s Bill Paxton band. After their marriage ended in 1991, Cameron and Bigelow would maintain a friendly enough relationship to collaborate on Strange Days in 1995. Now Bigelow’s career is intersecting with her personal life, again. [ HuffPo ]

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Is Kathryn Bigelow a Jobsexual? [On Set Romance]