Complete the Hepburn Sentences
Today is the 105th anniversary of Katharine Hepburn's birth. The last Kate movie that I saw was _____________ which _________________ . My favorite Hepburn film is ____________ and she totally...
View ArticleThe Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (For the Elderly and Beautiful)
This review was originally published in my column at Towleroad Outsource your elders. Ship them off to India! Though some media pundits scoffed last weekend when The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel opened...
View ArticleBox Office in Full Franchise Mode
In its second weekend, Marvel's The Avengers broke yet more records (first film to gross over $100 million in its second weekend) and joined the long-legged Katniss of The Hunger Games in her treetop...
View ArticleMad Men @ The Movies: Megan, The Actress
In Mad Men @ The Movies we talk about the show's movie references. Mad Men happens to love the movies and we happen to love Mad Men. Megan Draper: My father won't care if he finds out you read James...
View ArticleTake Three: Chris Cooper
Craig here with this week’s Take Three. Today: Chris Cooper Take One: Adaptation. (2002)Cooper was up against a quartet of big names in the 2003 Best Supporting Actor Oscar race: Christopher Walken...
View ArticleMonday Monologue: Miss Jean Brodie
With The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (just reviewed) garnering big audiences in limited release, Dames Judi and Maggie have been on the mind. Last week, I remembered my favorite scene from Judi Dench's...
View ArticleSay What, Alien Scarjo?
Amuse us in the comments by adding a caption or dialogue to the first image from Jonathan Glazer's (Birth, Sexy Beast) new film Under the Skin about an alien (Scarlett Johansson) in Scotland.
View ArticleLinks: Vocal Mimicry, Fearless Reprises, and Kick Lines
Web Slinging hear Tom Hiddleston's impressions of Samuel L Jackson, Owen Wilson and Chris Evans. He's a talented mimic. And funny, too.My New Plaid Pants gratuitous Byung-hun LeePajiba acknowledging...
View Article'you are an odd one, aren't you?'
Leslie: You are an odd one, aren't you Jett? But I like you.Jett: I like you too. I guess you're about the best looking gal we've seen round here in a long time -- I think the prettiest in I think...
View ArticleTues Top Ten: Who for Avengers 2 ?
Every once in awhile people will ask me if I really like superheroes or if I just post about them on occassion because it's good for traffic. The answers are a bold yes and an er, probably not (The...
View ArticleCurio: Tim Burton Terrariums
Alexa here. I, like the rest of the world, saw The Avengers instead of Dark Shadows last weekend. My hopes for Joss Whedon's big budget career weren't dashed, as I presume they would have been if I'd...
View ArticleWhat's on your (cinematic) mind?
I was just thinking about Emma Stone because I spotted this great spoof sketch by Grant Gould of the Easy A poster through the Game of Thrones lens... So fun! Which is coincidentally a word that...
View ArticleLink to the Rescue
First Showing Django Unchained banner on the Croisette in CannesInlander Don Draper isn't Mad Men's main character any moreFilmofilia a full slate for Amy Adams through 2014 at least. Add thriller Dark...
View ArticleTheir Best "Edward" Shots
"Post Me.""I Can't." Real life has this horrible way of intruding on fantasy. Though I'd much rather be spending exorbitant amounts of time with Avon lady Dianne, Gepetto-esque Vincent, dancing Winona,...
View ArticleSmash: That "Bombshell" Finale
True story. When I pressed play on the DVR to write up this last Smash post of the season, the TV "resumed play" in the middle of the episode somehow though I'd already watched the whole thing through....
View ArticleSuperheroes & Oscar. 7 Lessons We've Learned
Last week while reading about The Last of the Mohicans (1992), an astonishing 20 years old now, my mind lept back to early 1993. Even in the pre-internet fueled days of Oscar watching, when we...
View ArticleLast Dance for Donna Summer (RIP)
Goodbye to disco queen Donna Summer who died yesterday at 63 of cancer. She was one of the rare through lines in popular music of the 70s and 80s -- doesn't it seem like disco had its inordinate share...
View ArticleGet "Possessed" by Movies
If you keep meaning to join in on the Hit Me With Your Best Shot fun, but haven't yet made the plunge do it with the last episode of the first half of season 3 (we'll take a few weeks off and start...
View ArticleBiopics With No Oscar Heat?
Here at the Film Experience we probably complain too often about Oscar's absolute obsession with the biopic genre. One reason we hate this that we don't talk about much is that the films don't tend to...
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