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Streep Nom #14: Miranda Priestley Forever
What we have here my friends is multi-tasking on fire!!! It's a tuesday top ten, it's a new episode of Great Moments in Screen Bitchery, it's the latest episode of "Streep at 60" which we're going to...
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August Wrap: Bring It Swan!
The end of August fills us with excitement. Summer is ending. That's all. Soon we'll be cooled off and the best season for movies will be upon us. awesome oh wow like totally freak me out! But in case...
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I link through all this... before you wake up... so I can be happier
to be linked again with you... ♫Kenneth in the (212) Fun couples at the Emmys. I hadn't seen some of these photos. Cute!Just Jared The new cast of Dancing with the Stars. I don't watch it but I do find...
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Lily Tomlin, Queen of Existentialism
"Identity is nothing but a mental construct. You mustn't fixate on it.""I sure hope I'm still me.""I'm no girl, I'm a woman. I'm not your wife or your mother or even your mistress.""All the world's so...
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Venice: Black Swan Haunting
I've been freaking out about Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan ever since the day the trailer debuted and it's not healthy. I mean what if the trailer is better than the movie? Lord knows that's happened...
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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: A Face in the Crowd
previously: Showgirls, Black Narcissus and Bring it OnFor today's episode of this new participatory series, in which we choose our single favorite images from a feature, the topic is Elia Kazan's A...
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The Curious Case of Demi Button, the Blood Countess
Cele|Bitchy shared cel phone bikini pics of Demi Moore. Gawker, where I first saw these photos in a clueless* article on John Travolta, suggests that Demi is starring in her own real life adaptation...
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Modern Maestros: Catherine Breillat
Robert here, with another entry in my series about great contemporary directors.Maestro: Catherine BreillatKnown For: movies about sexInfluences: Chantal Akerman, BertolucciMasterpieces: Fat...
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Cast This: Gravity (Without Angelina Jolie)
It occurred to me a few weeks ago that I'd never mentioned Alfonso Cuarón's upcoming sci-fi epic Gravity. And here's a worrisome opportunity to do so. According to CHUD Angelina Jolie has passed on the...
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Breakfast With... Alexandre Desplat (Magnificent Film Score Repurposed.)
Press play for the musical accompaniment to this post.Have any of you seen the new "wake up" commercial for Quaker Oats? It's one of those commercials that would look right at home during the Olympics,...
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Holiday Weekend. Beauty Sleep.
Shhhhh. The Beauty is Sleeping. (Posting will commence again as soon as the Prince hacks through that forest of thorns.)There will be light posting this weekend. But not today. Go see a movie! Or maybe...
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Venice Red Carpet: Somewhere, Norwegian Wood, Miral, Reign of Assassins
The Venice Film Festival progresses. Day 4 of 11 today. So let's pretend we're there for a moment and check in. You can't have a good glitzy A list international film festival without immortals like...
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Links: Newt, Exorcisms, Movie Homes and More
Final Girl an exorcism movie flowchart. Hilarious even if you're not a horror fan.Journalistic Skepticism I love this. "25 Most Optimum Film Residences". I think I'm going to go with the Pink Palace...
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Posterized: Coen Bros
An Asian remake of the Coen Bros' debut Blood Simple hit theaters this weekend. It's called A Woman a Gun and a Noodle Shop. So let's mark the occasion of their first remake (unless I missed one?) with...
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Susan & Eva
Susan Sarandon and Eva Amurri in 198? and in 2010 The picture on the left I just found in a old box from my parent's house. Was it from a Rolling Stone or a Premiere? I do not know. I'm guessing it's...
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Take Three: Grace Jones
Craig here. It's Take Three time. Today: Ladies and gentlemen - heeeeere's Grace (Jones)Singer, icon, original fashionista fantastica, bat-mental celebrity hurricane force. We might not think of Grace...
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First and Last, 4.18
The first and last images of motion picturesCan you guess the movie?*
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Streep at 60: A Prairie Home Companion
The following article was originally published in January 2007. It's slightly revised below.It didn't take Meryl Streep long. By 1987 at the very latest, just ten years into her career, we knew that...
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Near, Far, Wherever Comments Are...
I just wanted to take a moment out to publicly thank those of you who take the time to comment. I do read them all. Comments aren't exactly a reliable gauge of how popular a post or "series" is, but...
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MM@M: No Bad Seats
Mad Men @ The Movies discusses the cinematic references in television's best series.Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) and Don (Jon Hamm) succumb to exhaustion.Four seasons of great acting will knock the wind...
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