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Hulk Smash Box Office!
Here's one of the very smartest things about The Avengers that I read all weekend and surely a sign as to why it's handily smashed opening weekend box office records with its mighty $200 mil. Perhaps...
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Take Three: Piper Laurie
Craig (from Dark Eye Socket) here with this week's Take Three. Today: Piper Laurie Take One: Hesher (2010)Laurie has played the grandmother figure a few times in recent years (Hounddog, Eulogy, The...
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"The Exorcist" and Nothingness
[Editor's Note: Beau McCoy is a longtime reader who I met recently. I quite like his writing and have asked him to contribute to the site. I hope you'll encourage him in the comments to return again....
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Monday Monologue: Barbara's Revenge
Dame Judi Dench has been on my mind lately what with the eye condition, a new James Bond film coming and Marigold Hotel in theaters. So herewith an article from 2008. If you only started reading The...
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It's Over! Hot Docs '12 Finale Edition
The Hot Docs Festival wrapped late last week and a jury handed out awards on Friday. Call Me Kuchu I saw Call Me Kuchu after it won Best International Feature (each year they play three award winners...
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Goodbye, Maurice
JA from MNPP here with very sad news indeed - Maurice Sendak, the author most famously of Where the Wild Things Are but also amongst many more In the Night Kitchen and Outside, Over There (which was...
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Burning Questions: When Will America Get Animation For Adults?
Day of the Dead comes with Lively ColorMichael C. here. Eyebrows were raised when Pixar recently announced their slate of upcoming films. After two projects we already knew about – a dinosaur focused...
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Les Línkables
TMZ life imitating art - Shawarma sales skyrocketing in LA after The Avengers opening.Coming Soon has a new photo from the set of Les Misérables. I'm choosing to interpret this set as an homage to...
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"Maleficent" - Now With More Mike Leigh!
Had a private double take giggle last night when I read the news of Maleficent's latest cast members. Maleficent herself Angelina Jolie and Sleeping Beauty Elle Fanning will be joined by Brit prestige...
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Smash: "Tech" & "Previews"
Smash recently announced that its creator and season 1 showrunner Theresa Rebeck was moving on. and Josh Safran (who ran Gossip Girl) is moving in for Season 2. What this means for the show we'd rather...
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6 Thoughts I Had While Staring at Tom Cruise's W Cover
The Rock of Ages push has begun... • The model to the left must have heard our theory about Tom Cruise's magic sperm: it unlocks great actressing powers ... time-delayed. The effect is only triggered...
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Complete the Sentence on This Wet Afternoon
"The last old movie I saw was __________________ which I watched because ________________________ and it was ________________ ." I'll start: The last old movie I saw was Seance on a Wet Afternoon...
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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: "The Exorcist"
The Hit Me With Your Best Shot series is deceptively simple. Choose a single shot from a pre-selected movie that you think is best, best being in the eye of the beholder. Tonight we're looking at The...
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Juliette or Guilietta?
Have you heard that Juliette Lewis will be starring in a film called The Days of Mary (2013?) loosely based on Federico Fellini's Oscar-winning Nights of Cabiria (1957)? It feels like her first lead...
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Tall Tales. Short Links
Village Voice the five most dream-like sequences from the John Travolta sex-assault allegations. (Hint: The comment section is hi-lar-ious. I especially love the pizza delivery analogy)YouTube has one...
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Yes, No, Maybe So: "Killer Joe"
Hey, that rhymes. For those of you who don't know the name Tracy Letts, a brief history. The Oklahoman born playwright first came to minor fame as a member of Chicago's lauded theater collective...
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Pfeiffer Pfriday
I recently got a Pfacebook message from one of her biggest pfans and he asked me if I'd misplaced my love for the one and only Michelle Pfeiffer. "Of course not!" I wanted to shout only to immediately...
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Andrew & Tobey & Spidey
VMan magazine had the fine idea of Peter Parker Tobey Maguire grilling Peter Parker Andrew Garfield on donning the Spider-Man duds. Superheroes already know from dual personas so this idea is not just...
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Linkopolis
Movie|Line Noomi Rapace and Rachel McAdams take over for Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier in the insta-remake of Love Crimes (read my Ludivine interview) now dubbed Passion Self Styled Siren...
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Yes, No, Maybe So In a Man's Man's Man's Man's World
Trying to catch up here so herewith, a quartet of big groups of male actors committing daring crimes/heroics in two minutes flat so that you can see the best parts* of the movies for free. *that's how...
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