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First & Last: Thomas & Jesse
the first and last image from a motion picture (and the first and last line of dialogue) first Thomas, I want you home by 3:00... not 3:30, not 3:15, but 3:00." last When Jesse was a boy, just a few...
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Monologue: "Lousy Lay"
I was married for four years and pretended to be happy and had six years of analysis and pretended to be sane. My husband ran off with his boyfriend and I had an affair with my analyst who told me I...
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JA from MNPP here. I'm sure this is something that Nathaniel has considered here on the site before, but it's fresh on my mind with that there fifteen second teaser for tomorrow's actual full-sized...
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Oscar Horrors: Hush Hush Campy Agnes
[Editors Note: For today's episode of Oscar Horrors, I invited award-winning writer Manuel Muñoz ("What You See in the Dark" "The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue") to join us. I've gave all the...
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An Off-Key Starting Bell for the Best Actor Race
I assume by now that you've read Interview Magazine's much talked about interview with Joaquin Phoenix in which he hates on the utter bullshit of awards season? A lot of people have already (and might...
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Curio: Cine with your Wine
Alexa here. I recently got my husband an anniversary gift of Will Ferrell's mug on a wine glass; romantic, I know, but it met with so much success (and an endless stream of Anchorman quotes over our...
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Secret Messages: "Play Me"
secret messages from the movies Can you guess the movie? And can you tell me what's on the tape?
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Tues Top Ten: Video Store Scenes
Hello, lovelies. Beau here responding to the overwhelming drought of lists in the world with one of his own. For me, one of the saddest casualties of the past decade since the advent and adoption of...
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First & Last. Can You Guess The Movie?
How have you been doing on this season of First & Last? Here's another puzzle. The first image (pre-titles) and last image (the credits will snap up there in the center) Can you guess the movie?
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♪ we're gonna sco-o-ore tonight ♪ ♫
Who would you rather go bowling with? Don't lie! Who would you have the most fun with? poll by twiigs.com
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Oscar Horrors: A Shark in the Edit Suite
Oscar Horrors looks at nominated contributions to this non-Oscar bait genre. Here's Craig on Jaws. HERE LIES... a beautifully cut shark by the name of Bruce. Oscar-winning editor Verna Fields did the...
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Next Movie Evan Rachel Wood & Juliette Lewis would rather they play Janis Joplin than Amy Adams! Agree?Hark! A Vagrant stops for Quiz Time with Queen Elizabeth. If only Elizabeth: The Golden Age...
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It's Hitchcock's World...
Yesterday I received my invitation to Hitchcock and I nearly let out a scream of delight. Not that the trailer convinced me a masterpiece awaited me or that I've rushed to read "Alfred Hitchcock and...
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Oscar Horrors: Bringing the Aliens to Life
Here lies... the alien queen, expelled into space using strings, pulleys and dummies. Amir here to look at the Oscar-winning Visual Effects of James Cameron’s Aliens (1986). Cameron’s films have an...
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Feline Oscar Twins: Anne & Michelle?
In the hall of fame of superhero/villain catchphrases “oops” (Anne Hathaway, The Dark Knight Rises) never stood much of a prayer against “me-ow” (Michelle Pfeiffer, Batman Returns), nor could the dark...
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First & Last: 'something off the port bow'
the first and last images from a motion picture. Always with the water, I tell you... years of doing this feature has taught me that more filmmakers like to begin and end on shots of water than any...
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"The Loneliest Planet" Finally Lands in Theaters
One of my favorite films from last year's New York Film Festival was The Loneliest Planet starring Gael García Bernal. I sometimes jokingly think of the pocket-sized actor as the mascot of Oscar's...
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Oscar Horrors: An Irish Ghost Story
HERE LIES... Hilton Edwards' short film Return to Glennascaul, mauled by Disney's Bear Country. Andreas here with another spooky Oscar Horrors case file! This time, it's a ghost story. And who doesn't...
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007 Songs
Deborah Lipp, author of The Ultimate James Bond Fan Book, is counting down 007 Favorite Things while we await Skyfall during this, the 50th anniversary year of Bond, James Bond. It started with...
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