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Vol XXXIII No. 128

Thursday, April 27, 2000

  FilmJunkies.net is perfect for movie buffs
Two Notre Dame freshmen launch successful Website from their dorms
By MATT NANIA
Assistant Scene Editor

Recently launched by two Notre Dame students, the all-new Film Junkies Website (www.film-junkies.net) is the ideal place for movie buffs. Brian Scofield and Brian Bircher, two freshmen living in Siegfried Hall, founded Film Junkies in February with the hopes of launching ... [more]


`U-571' sub thriller needs less speech, more speed
By JOEY LENISKI
Scene Movie Critic

The format of "U-571" reads like a roller-coaster ride. Like the clatty-clink, clatty clink of a coaster's 200-foot incline, the first half-hour is slow and boring. But it allows the viewer to look around the film and get a feel for ... [more]


Exciting car chases punctuate a brilliant `Connection'
By JOHN CRAWFORD
Scene Movie Critic

Hollywood doesn't know how to do good car chases anymore. With the exception of the dizzying pursuits in Robert DeNiro's 1998 spy flick "Ronin," modern movie car chases are too often grating scenes full of senseless explosions, overdone special effects and ... [more]