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Yes, No, Maybe So: "Mirror Mirror"
We've never really imagined visually acclaimed director Tarsem Singh as the Evil Queen type but the release of the trailer to his next flick Mirror Mirror (included at the bottom of this post) so...
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Distant Relatives: Five Easy Pieces & Greenberg
Robert here with Distant Relatives, which explores the connections between one classic and one contemporary film. Growing up is Hard to DoHollywood has always been interested in man-children, and...
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This Happened on Tuesday. Miraculously The Earth Continues Spinning.
How is it possible that the entire universe did not implode from Too Much of A Good Awesome Thingness when planets as magical as Tilda and Pedro collided right here in NYC? Also present - photographic...
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The Adventures of Linklink
You may have heard that Ricky Gervais will be hosting the Golden Globes again. I don't have the stomach to give this its own post but let it suffice to say what I already said on twitter... Gervais...
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From the Archives: Kirsten Dunst Interviewed
I've been racing around this week from interview to interview. You'll start seeing them as soon as I can catch my breath. For numerous reasons my mind kept leaping back to last year's precursor season...
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Ask Nathaniel...
So last week we did two Q & A columns, parts 1 & 2 to make up for our late late lateness with this column. (sigh). But here we go again. Curveball: No questions about legendary actresses this...
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Oscar News: 15 Documentary Finalists. Major Snubs Are Mandatory.
The Academy have announced their finalists in the Best Documentary Oscar category. Guess what isn't it the running anymore: Senna, The Interrupters, Page One: Inside the New York Times, and The...
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20:11 Season of the Hornet's "No Stings" Dilemma
Year in Review Fun... Much more to come! Herewith the 20th minute and 11th second of the movies of 2011 in chronological order of US release date. It's like flipping channels for snapshots of the film...
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It Won't Bring Her Back.
Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood on "Splendour"For those of you wondering why I haven't written about the reopening of the Natalie Wood drowning case from 1981 there are three reasons. First, recalling a...
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Mulligan and the Great DiCapsby
True Story: Last night I was walking to a birthday party with a movie-mad friend of mine and we passed a girl with badly bleached short platinum hair. She was wearing a showy vintage coat and her face...
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Happy 50th Birthday, Meg Ryan
She rose to fame just before Julia Roberts who rose to fame just before Sandra Bullock. Together the three of them inarguably ruled the Romantic Comedy genre for a full decade back when, and this is an...
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One Hundred Years of Linkitude
24 Frames a glowing profile of Shailene Woodley in The Descendants who is looking more and more like a real Supporting Actress contender. Alexander Payne even compares her to a young Debra Winger....
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"Young Adult" Chat: Diablo, Charlize, Patton... and Candace?
This Friday night at the DGA Theater in Manhattan, director Jason Reitman and writer Diablo Cody's post-Juno reunion was unveiled for guild members. The second time was also a charm so I hope they keep...
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Box Office: Bella Marries but We're Totally Team George
Twi-hards RSVP'ed to their beloved franchise's wedding, giving Twilight's fourth film a box office weekend as bloated as its romantic angst and running time. George Clooney's Oscar bid (aka The...
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Oscar Updates: Shorts & Songs
The charts have all been updated... I started with the Animation, Shorts and Doc page which never gets enough attention and on which you'll see a lot of new information. Short films are such a crucial...
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Scene Work: Demián Bichir & Chris Weitz on "A Better Life"
In this new miniseries, we'll be discussing some of the most memorable individual scenes of the movies of 2011. So let's start with the penultimate scene from the immigration drama A Better Life. Have...
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"baby, you are going to miss that link"
Please tell me how to feel about the proposed Before Sunset (2004) sequel. I don't mean to shirk my duties as an "opinion maker" *snort* but sometimes I just don't have one. A definitive opinion, I...
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The Family of "Hugo" Cabret
Last night I had the privilege of seeing Hugo a second time at my favorite* NYC theater, the Ziegfeld. It's an enormous "Old Hollywood" feeling place, one of the last of its kind so it couldn't have...
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Curio: Muppet Madness
Alexa here. Lately I've been busying myself by introducing my daughter to the Muppets, in hopes that the new installment will pan out and there will be more Muppet fun to come. (So far, Miss Piggy's...
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