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Learning to Love the Lantern Again
I'm pretty sure I've told y'all at some point or another that Green Lantern was a childhood favorite as superheroes go. I wore a Green Lantern t-shirt proudly. Before the shitty movie was a reality,...
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Mad Men and The Other Women
Have you wondered what happened to our series Mad Men @ The Movies? Well, Matthew Weiner and his team up and ditched the abundant movie references for most of season 5, leaving me to wish that I hadn't...
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Take Three: Ida Lupino
Craig (from Dark Eye Socket) here with Take Three. This week actress and director Ida Lupino Ida Lupino a "sensation" circa 1941 Take One: The Bigamist (1953)The Bigamist probes unseemly marital...
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Curio: Visions of Prometheus
llustration by PJ McQuade. Alexa here. Since the first teasers and trailers for Prometheus arrived I've been firmly in the YES camp. Take the implications of providing a practically Precambrian...
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How long has it been since you've seen The Matrix?
Last weekend I decided it was time to burn through the DVD queue instead of sitting wordless at my computer. But when I opened the latest rental, The Good Fairy (1935) -- no, I can't remember why I...
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Top Ten: The Greatest People/Things Born on June 6th!
They say it's your birthday.♬ ♩♬♩♬ it's my birthday, too. Herewith, in semi off the cuff order, the greatest peoplethings born on this day in history. Happy June 6th! Honorable mention...Jason Isaacs...
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Ask Nathaniel...
Time to revive the Q&A column? Why not. Ask me anything in the comments and I'll choose 10(ish) questions to answer next Tuesday night.
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On Jean Harlow, "Beauty", Screen Presence & Short Lives
75 years ago today Jean Harlow died. The Platinum Blonde superstar, arguably the ur blonde bombshell that Marilyn Monroe gets the bulk of the credit for being, was only 26 years old. She'd been a...
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Frank Langella, Name Dropper
On my way out west to see family, I found great escapist distraction in Frank Langella's memoir "Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women as I Knew Them" When the book was first released earlier this year,...
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Twins: Hunter & Who?
celebrating twins daily during Gemini at 2:22 PM Do you know who Hunter's über famous twin is? The answer is after the jump but you know and love her... or at least you know her. Maybe you love her...
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I've seen ______ movies thus far this year and the best _____ so far is totally _____.
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That's a Link Breaker, Ladies
Letters of Note "I feel every cut" an intimate glimpse back at Terry Gilliam's Brazil madnessSelf Styled Siren a happy ending for For the Love of Film Blogathon III. The money raised towards film...
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Twins of the Famiest Fame
we're celebrating twins daily at 2:22 pm while the stars are in Gemini Is it rude to be so publicly excited that Elizabeth Olsen has arrived and is destined to completely surpass her older (twin)...
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Unnecessary Sequel Alert: Queen White and The Huntsman
Well, last weekend's box office did it. Universal has OK'ed a sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman (reviewed right here). In retrospect, they really ought to have saved the current film's actual title...
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New "Magic Mike" Stills in Ascending Order of Hotness
It's annoying that Magic Mike did not premiere in the Lusty Month of May and even more annoying that it did not premiere for my birthday. But at least it's arriving at the tail end of Gay Pride Month,...
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Twins: Band of Marshall-Green-Hardy Brothers
twins daily @ 2:22 PM during Gemini Rising star Logan Marshall-Green (Prometheus) -- who we were recently talking about since he's about to play Tennessee Williams -- is pictured left... or is it...
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Yes, No, Maybe So: "Django Unchained"
If Quentin Tarantino can make us wait an average of 2 years and ten months between each movie (I'm counting Kill Bill as one and assuming Django Unchained will arrive on schedule. But will it?) than...
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"Witches of Eastwick" Week!
Starts now! Happy 25th Anniversary to The Witches of Eastwick (1987). Normal blogging will run concurrently but we'll pop on over to that supernatural New England town at least once a day this week....
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Box Office: Hair-Raising Franchise Battles
One could argue, and some did, that we didn't need another Alien movie after four regular features and Alien vs. Predator mash-ups. One could argue, though no one bothered to, that we didn't need...
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Tony Awards 2012
Neil Patrick Harris sang and danced and wisecracked and otherwise hung out (har dee har har... see Spider-Man gag to the left) at the Tony Awards last night. Did you watch? If so what delighted you...
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