Movies

I know what you’re thinking: how can I talk about the one and only Ghostbusters and not talk about that song. Well, today I thought I would honor all the unsung heroes of the soundtrack to one of the greatest comedies of all time by dedicating this Scenes (Songs) We Love to Alessi’s Saving the [...]

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Some people try to deny the fact that they’re getting older. I’m constantly in denial about the movie stars I grew up with.
Michael Douglas, who turns sixty-six — sixty-six! — in a couple of weeks, went on Letterman last night ostensibly to promote the September release of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. But the conversation [...]

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The screenplay race is always the most fun to speculate upon. Mostly because it is the one category where one of your favorite films of the year has a real shot at getting its single nomination; a little toss off to the year’s best comedy, indie or twisty genre entity. It is where Pixar has [...]

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- Hah: Apparently no one searched Google for “blue dong” prior to Zack Snyder’s Watchmen. [via Reddit]
- Jackie Chan is set to direct and star in the Chinese historical drama The 1911 Revolution. The film is expected to feature a cast of around 70 of China’s biggest stars and be done by September of [...]

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George Clooney as a hit man planning his exit strategy in ‘The American’ follows a long line of assassins (and bank robbers and jewel thieves) who decide to pull that legendary “last job” before retiring to a hard-earned life of luxury.
Of course, everything always goes wrong as a lifetime of bad choices catch [...]

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I’m going to keep this short and quick: the general consensus (aka my twitter feed) seems to indicate that the summer of 2010 was “like, one of the worst ever,” as decided by a group of people with the average age of 27. I actually agreed with that sentiment until just now, which is when [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, I put forth The Last Exorcism as a likely candidate to become a late-summer sleeper hit. At the end of its first weekend in theaters, the box office returns look good, and the critical consensus does too — with the exception of the ending, which took a drumming from everyone [...]

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More than half the votes in last week’s Trailer Park poll went to expected winner Black Swan (with 57%). There is definitely a lot of interest in Darren Aronofsky’s latest, far more than any of the other nine films. I am a bit surprised to see the Joaquin Phoenix documentary I’m Still Here garnering so [...]

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If there’s one thing I want to pluck off my to-do list and move to my have-done list in the very near future, it’s underground supper clubs. Rather than going out to a fancy restaurant to gorge on any old meal, many are falling victim to the lure of secret, one-of-a-kind foodie adventures. Not advertised [...]

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