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There's the pop goddess, one of the biggest-selling musical artists of all time, bereft of all hints of her usual wham-bam glamour.
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It's at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater only through Saturday - another of those wham-bam visits that whets the appetite for more evenings like it.
McDonagh's 'Cripple of Inishmaan': Fiendishly funny sendup of rural Irish life Peter Marks 2011
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I want to make sure to mention that I appreciate the filmmakers not drawing things out for the sake of self-indulgence and just sticking to the gameplan of a wham-bam sci-fi action movie, but at the same time I wanted a little more.
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The latest mobile iteration of the never-ending "Need for Speed" franchise, "Shift," preserves the series's MO by neatly straddling the line between sober realism and wham-bam arcade action.
Off to the Races 2011
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Dwayne McDuffie and director Sam Liu have cut much of the smaller-scale humanity from the story, omitting character beats and somber meditation while keeping most of the wham-bam spectacle.
Scott Mendelson: Blu Ray review: All-Star Superman (2011) Scott Mendelson 2011
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He's a wham-bam driver, drives it fast and loud busted muffler.
Someplace Else J.B. Lacombe 2010
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The steeper difficulty curve is actually kind of a boon, though -- this isn't a game where you'll wham-bam everything by year 3 and have nothing else to do.
Archive 2008-09-01 SVGL 2008
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Credit for this should probably go to the marketing campaign put together by the Weinstein Company, which sold audiences on a wham-bam revenge flick starring Brad Pitt.
Box Office Breakdown: America Loves Brad Pitt and Killing Nazis! 2009
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Credit for this should probably go to the marketing campaign put together by the Weinstein Company, which sold audiences on a wham-bam revenge flick starring Brad Pitt.
Box Office Breakdown: America Loves Brad Pitt and Killing Nazis! 2009
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Unfortunately, they don't have the heavy drama that could garner Academy attention and aren't wham-bam action flicks that could draw in the Transformers crowds.
Russell Crowe Pursuing More Master & Commander? | /Film 2009
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