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Curio: Crazy for Pee-Wee
Alexa from Pop Elegantiarum here. As JA mentioned, it's been 25 years since Pee-Wee's Big Adventure came out to mediocre reviews. Whether you love it or hate it, today it is inarguably a cult classic....
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"you may link, there's nothing to it. But I simply cannot do it alone!"
Tribeca Film I have a new weekly column there "Best in Show" where I'm extolling the virtues of MVPs in new movies. First up: Tom Hardy in Inception.Mr Dan Zak wants Angelina Jolie to adopt him, loves...
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Happy Birthday (of sorts) To "Bugs" Bunny
Today is the 70th anniversary of the first "official" Bugs Bunny short, A Wild Hare, which was released on this very day way the hell back in 1940 and went on to win an Oscar nomination. It's therefore...
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Toronto Cometh
No time to digest this quite yet but the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF hereafter) has begun announcing their lineup which you can read at IndieWire. They'll be adding to that since they...
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MM@M: Live From Times Square
TV's greatest show has a love affair with the movies. So we have a love affair with TV's greatest show. We call it Mad Men @ The Movies. The world premiere party for Mad Men Season 4 kicked off in...
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The Greatest FYC Ad of All Time
[src]Or at least the greatest FYC ad since the one for Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge! "She Sings! She Dances! She Dies!"
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Could Have Beens: Josh Hutcherson Parker / Toni Roxie Collette
Josh Hutcherson's Spider-Man screen test went up at Latino Review. Though I'm sure they'll be pulled soon it's fun to watch. It's actually interesting to see how much effort went into these screen...
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"This is the girl..."
If looks could seduce.If looks could kill.[Great Moments in (reciprocal) Screen Bitchery #772]*
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A Postcard from the Edge of Shutter Island.
Thought I'd share a fun little trivia nugget from a recent interview with the actress Robin Bartlett. You may remember Bartlett from her recurring role on TV's Mad About You or as the unusually named...
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"Is this how we dress for the office?"
."You look like a blood clot."[Great Moments in Screen Bitchery #404, Bette Midler in Big Business]JA from MNPP here. I just gave a ton of love to Lily Tomlin's performance in this movie over at MNPP....
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Modern Maestros: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Robert here, back with another entry in my series on great contemporary directors.Maestro: Apichatpong WeerasethakulKnown For: Difficult, often dreamlike films about the changing times.Influences:...
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Posterized Sissies
Let's talk Sissy Spacek. My friend Matt has been highlighting her something fierce over at Pop Matters, but why should he have the Sissy all to himself?The great actress, everyone's favorite...
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A Story of Run-On Linkings
Sometimes when I fall out of the loop as I just did, taking a few days away from normal internettings to finish a freelance gig I have trouble getting back on the horse because I subscribe to a lot of...
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Hit Me With Your Best Shot. X-Men (2000)
Last week I told you about a new series "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" and as a preamble I suggested X-Men (2000) for today. I'd already paid visual homage here. I am happy to report that someone took me...
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Ann-Margret's Knockers
Actors on Actors "When i was a little girl i used to go to Ann-Margret movies and pray for tits."-Marilu Henner as "Sally" in Perfect (1985) *The pair in question. Worth praying for.And gawking at.
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TV @ the Movies: Thelma & Louise Hates Texas. Drag U & Marie Antoinette.
I get many emails asking me to write more frequently about the small screen so I figured I should cave if a tv series really excites me (like Mad Men) but on one condition: it has to reference the...
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