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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: "Sherlock Jr"
This week's "Best Shot" selection iss Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. (1924), a 44 minute silent comedy. Silent comedies were often so swoony with romantic plots that I always want to call them...
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TIFF Lineup: Female Directors & Prestige Adaptations
Paolo here. We should probably give in and see what this year's Toronto International Film Festival has to offer! Toronto marks the unofficial start of awards season, inflating or deflating much hyped...
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What The World Needs Now Is Stone, Sharon Stone
JA from MNPP here. There's Miss Stone (if she's nasty) rocking the fierce rich lady look (eye-work and all she'd seem right at home having lunch with Marisa Berenson in I Am Love) on the set of her...
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Personal Canon #99: XANADU (1980)
From now until the end of August we'll be celebrating Gene Kelly for his Centennial (August 23rd to be exact) so let's revisit Xanadu, which opened 32 years ago last night! It's a member of my Personal...
View ArticleIt's the weekend.What are your movie plans?
What's on your cinematic mind? Movie theater outing? If so will it be the Bourne Sequel, Meryl Marital Mania or "other"?
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Ruby Sparks and The Case of The Unintelligible Scribblings
Behold ~ my favorite piece of movie swag thus far this year. Movie swag -- It isn't just for clutter anymore! Nothing beats useful movie swag. When the notebook first arrived I thought, 'What a...
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And the LINK said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the Blog
<-- Look it's Russell Crowe as Noah in Darren Aronofsky's hopefully insane biblical epic. I hope he's nicer to the CGI tigers than he was in Gladiator. LinksVulture Will now middle age Bill &...
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Singin' in the Dog Day Afternoon
As I type this I am slick with sweat and praying for rain, glorious thunderstorm born heavy-pellet rain. (In the interim I will crank up the air conditioner --f*** that gargantuan electricity bill! --...
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MIFF 2: Will "The Sessions" Make Oscar Feel Good?
[Editor's note: Glenn of Stale Popcorn fame is back to report from Melbourne Iwith a look at an Oscar hopeful that's been working the festival circuit all year - Nathaniel] I suspect it will be easy...
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Moviegoing Diaries: "Bachelorette" is the Best
[Editor's Note: Beau texted me this morning all tweaked out with "Bachelorette" pleasure so I asked him to be more specific and was he ever. - Nathaniel] Thank you, little baby Jesus. Last night, I...
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Anne vs. Amy. Oscar Chart Updates!
If anyone can threaten the widely held assumption that Anne Hathaway will win the Supporting Actress Oscar come February for dreaming that dream in time gone by in Les Misérables, isn't it Amy Adams in...
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Box Office Quickie: Meryl Streep, The Right Choice
Remember that glorious bit on the sitcom Modern Family where Cameron sang the praises of Meryl Streep? Meryl Streep could play Batman and be the right choice from Kristian Møller Jørgensen on Vimeo....
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Actress a Day: Amanda Seyfried
It occurred to me yesterday that no one ever speaks of Amanda Seyfried when they speak of Les Misérables, it's always 'Hugh this' and 'Hathaway that' and 'can Barks act for the big screen?' and so on....
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Take Three: Tommy Lee Jones
Craig here with Take Three. Today: Tommy Lee Jones who is currently working it out with Streep onscreen in Hope Springs. Take One: No Country for Old Men (2007)In the Joel & Ethan Coen's No Country...
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'Til Link Do Us Part
The Film Doctor usually finds interesting angles. For Hope Springs he interviewed his signifant other on the depiction of marital turmoil and therapy therein.Final Girl this one is for you horror fans,...
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Curio: Painterly Posters by Aaron Wells
Alexa here. I always enjoy a film poster that is actually painted; the eye tires of seeing only minimal vector graphics. So I love these posters I found on etsy created by freelance illustrator and...
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Burning Questions: Can a One-Note Performance Be Great?
Michael C here. On my list of cinematic obsessions the Alec Baldwin scene from Glengarry Glenn Ross ranks near the top, alongside stuff like the zither music from The Third Man and the ending of Barton...
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Searching for Treasures at TIFF: A Top Dozen List
Hey Everyone. Amir here to preview the Toronto International Film Festival. There's less than a month to go before opening night. Those of you who follow the festival’s news regularly probably know...
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Link Out Your Dead
My New Plaid Pants a funny exchange between David Cronenberg and Robert Pattinson regarding Cosmopolis' prostrate exam scenePajiba 7 performances that changed our minds about actors this yearMovie|Line...
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Last night I watched __________________ and it left me feeling _____________________________ . If you must know I ate ______________ while watching it.
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