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April 21, 2017
At the Movies: ‘Colossal' mixes rom-com plot with monster movie
By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
AP Film Writer
Jason Sudeikis and Anne Hathaway star in "Colossal."
The Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo makes funny, fantastical, Frankenstein-like films that playfully combine small-scale with big-concept. His 2011 film “Extraterrestrial” is a romantic comedy centered on a handful of characters amid a massive unseen alien invasion. His “Timecrimes” was about a marriage filtered through a time-traveling murder mystery.
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