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Rock of Ages Will Rock You... (Or At Least Lightly Jostle You)
This review was originally published in my column at Towleroad At a recent press screening in Manhattan, heavily attended by the gays, the choreographer turned So You Think You Can Dance judge turned...
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Twins: Disney Villains x 2
Celebrating twins daily at 2:22 PM while we're in Gemini Not all twins share the same parents. Though I suppose one could argue that Walt Disney's children are legion. Case #1 Ursula & Medusa If...
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Red Carpet Convo: Frock of (All) Ages & the Prometheus Crew
Red Carpet Convos is back! Nathaniel: Hi Joanna! We haven't talked in ages. Joanna: I know. And I've had so many things to say! Nathaniel: Try to squeeze them all in rightnow. Since the Red...
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Box Office: Stacey Jaxx is Flop?
Even with a big drop for Conversation Starter Prometheus, the two new wide releases couldn't make a big dent; nobody was holding up their lighter for Tom Cruise or sending Father's Day cards to...
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Take Three: Cécile De France
Craig here with this week's Take Three. Today: Cécile De France Take One: Haute tension/Switchblade Romance (2004)De France brings an entirely new meaning to the term ‘Final Girl’ in Alexandre Aja’s...
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Twins: Luke & Leia
twins daily at 2:22 pm (while we're in Gemini) Like most people of my generation I grew up with the Star Wars franchise (1977-1983. It ends there, right?) as the single most defining pop culture event...
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Curio: Seeing Silhouettes
Alexa here. Although they were an 18th Century craze, silhouettes are a familiar sight in our collective film memory (James Bond openers, Elliott and E.T., even Mystery Science Theater 3000). Cut...
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Maleficent is Coming
Production began on Maleficent (2014) today. A movie we're both totally in for and dreading for very different reasons simultaneously. Of course pre-production has long been afoot as this new photo of...
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True Blood 5.2... Or, Nahhh,... TEEN WOLF Top Ten!
previously on True Blood After a disappointing return to Bon Temps I was all primed for something closer to satisfying from the second episode of this storied show's fifth season but instead of...
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What's Your Number One Nicole?
. .JA from MNPP here, daring to tackle one of Nathaniel's sacred cows on her 45th birthday - the lovely and not at all cow-like yet entirely sacred, the very very talented Nicole Kidman. Earlier today...
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Yes, No, Maybe So: Anna Karenina
Hello Happy Peppy Cineastes. Beau here again (I recently wrote about The Exorcist) at the request of Nathaniel to discuss the delicious new trailer of Joe Wright's Anna Karenina starring pretty British...
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Burning Questions: What Is Your Stand Alone Film?
Michael C. here to do his part to shake up the conventional wisdom. It’s a big step for any budding cinephile when one learns to value one’s own opinion over the established consensus. If you were...
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Link Highway
Scanners on the tributes to legendary film critic Andrew Sarris (RIP) who helped make the auteur theory the big deal it still is with movie buffs.NPR Monkey See says goodbye to Matt Groenig's hugely...
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Current Top Paid Actresses
Forbes ranks the working actresses in order of assumed income for the past year (May to May) and Queen Theron, who has been absent way too long, jumps back in the game with her recent burst of acting...
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Pfeiffer Next Pfriday... "People Like Us"
I'm not supposed to talk about the movie yet but Pfans rejoice. I can't resist telling you that Michelle Pfeiffer enters the new drama People Like Us with a bracing cold snap. The movie has been racing...
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What's the first movie you thought of when you woke up this morning? Otherwise what's on your (cinematic) mind today? I'm slow to rise this morning but I'm thinking it's a catch up weekend for me --...
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Another "Prometheus" Mystery: Will There Be Oscar Play?
Ridley Scott's Alien franchise prequel Prometheus should probably be a film I take great objection to. The first reason I ever loved the series (beyond Lt. Ellen Ripley, queen of all action heroines)...
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Pass the Link
Main CoursePajiba attempts to show that Pixar has more than one female character with its '15 most badass female Pixar charactersSerious Film joins the legion of Beasts of the Southern Wild fans with...
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Say What, Emma T?
Amuse us. Caption this photo of Emma Thompson in the comments. Oh and... yay, she's back in front of cameras where she belongs (It's a scene from Love Punch a new divorced couple comedy with Pierce...
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Box Office: Princess Merida, Bear Hunter
Princess Merida's aim was true, hitting the Pixar bullseye this weekend. $60 million plus means BRAVE can stand proudly with the studio's most successful opening weekends. Some worried that Pixar's...
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