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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: "The Wizard of Oz"
A brief preface for new readers: "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" is a series in which we invite all movie lovers to share their choice of 'best shot' from a single pre-selected film on their own web space...
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First & Last: "Send me a card, Champ."
first & last puzzlesthe first image and the last lines of dialogue. Take good care of her!"[then the Title Song sung] Can you guess the movie?
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Yes, No, Maybe So? Greta Gerwig in 'Frances Ha'
Hey lovelies. Beau here with a look at the newest indie darling. It’s hard to pin down Noah Baumbach. While most of his nineties peers have vanished from the cinematic landscape or are reaping all the...
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Linker's Game
Pajiba on the fall of the once brilliant Orson Scott Card. How is this the same man that wrote Ender's Game (coming soon to a movie theater near you)?New York Times "Nora Ephron's Final Act" this piece...
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Can you picture Jessica Chastain swinging on vines? Who else?
Though I think it's curious that the internet leaps so feverishly on to each casting wish as if it were reality, I feel we should discuss the latest speculative thing going around. I made this. My...
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First & Last Puzzle. It's A Recent Movie.
the first line of dialogue and the last image from a movie. Again... what happened in that hotel room? Can you guess the movie?
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Posterized: The Land of Oz
With Oz: The Great and Powerful hitting movie theaters today and having just remembered one of the all time greats The Wizard of Oz with the season premiere of "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" I thought...
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Say What? Watts & Chastain
Amuse us by adding dialogue or a caption to this snapshot of Naomi Watts & Jessica Chastain taken Wednesday in Paris. I'll announce the winner tomorrow morning. Go!
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Earth's Mightiest Links
Grantland "look, you didn't hear this from George Lucas..." on the upcoming Star Wars Han/Luke/Leia Reunioni09 Bad Lip Readings take on The Amazing Spider-Man. And things get skankyHollywood January...
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It's International Women's Day !
I had so many different ideas with which to celebrate today that I didn't manage to get any of them done. It's a typical problem when you have more ideas than time and when indefatigable ambition meets...
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Visual Index ~ The Wonderful Best Shot(s) of Oz
can you believe that no one chose this shot?Do I plug this series too much? "Plug! Plug!" The next Hit Me With Your Best Shot is Barbarella (1968) on Wednesday March 13th (join us!) but I wasn't quite...
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75th Anniversary: In Old Chicago's Stolen Oscar!
On this very day in 1938, 75 years ago, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences met for the 10th time to honor the films of 1937. There was still no television to compete with but that also...
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Linkology
Details our friend Kurt interviewed Stoker baddie Matthew GoodeSalon on the depiction of Hitchcock's misogyny and voyeurism in recent biopicsYahoo I missed this incredible make you feel super old news:...
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Review: "Oz: the Great and Powerful"
This review was originally published @ Towleroad in my weekly column You're basically asking for a trouble with that title, you know? OZ: THE GREAT AND POWERFUL. It doesn't take a crystal ball to...
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BoxOffice: The Great and Platformful
Somewhere over a different rainbow: Gael García Bernal's NO is a deserved hit in platform releaseObviously the oxygen-hogging story this weekend was the release of a new Oz movie. Pre-sold films are...
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First & Last. Who is He?
first and last puzzles. here's the first and last images of the main character in a motion picture. Can you guess the movie?
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Capsules: 28 Hotel Rooms, Yossi, Caesar Must Die
In an effort to review every new film I see this year -- a task I have never accomplished but there's a first time for everything -- I will resort to capsules like these when I haven't reviewed...
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Stage Door: Sigourney Weaver in "Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike"
On Mondays, Broadway's dark night, let's talk theater! I have reason to talk tonight, shout even. The highlight of my weekend was an unexpected one. I agreed to see Vanya & Sonia & Masha &...
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Secret Messages: Time Window
secret messages from the movies Can you guess the movie? What can you really squeeze into 3.5-4 minutes anyway?
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