Happy Earth Day. We can still get a few more in before we successfully kill the Earth off I think. Unrelated, the Florida Film Festival comes to a close tonight. This edition has been deemed a success, with films like Renee, Eye of the Hurricane, Turn Me On Dammit, and Monsieur Lazhar are getting...
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So, unless you’ve been living under a rock this week you probably already know that the Florida Film Festival is underway. It is, I believe, the biggest edition of the festival yet, and the handful of films I’ve seen while we were going through our reviews were all good. My picks for can’t-miss of...
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Tags: A Cat in Paris, Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity, Amazon Prime, Anna Chlumsky, Armando Iannucci's Veep, Cartoon College, Catching Fire, Darren Aronofsky's Noah, Elizabeth Olson, Emma Watson, Ender's Game, florida film festival, God Bless America, Hit So Hard, Hysteria, In the Loop, Jeon Do-yeon, Joey Lauren Adams, Koreeda's I Wish, Kurt Cobain, Lee Chang-dong, Lee Yoon-ko, Lena Dunham's Girls, Looper, Mamitas, Mariano Rivera, martin scorsese, Miley Cyrus LOL, Monsieur Lazhar, Patty Shemel, Red Light's Sigourney Weaver, Rian Johnson, SNL, Sofia Coppola's The Blind Ring, Steven Spielberg, The Avengers, The Blair Witch Project, The Death of Film, The Thick of It, tiny furniture, Turn Me On Dammit, Woody Allen
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It’s April Fool’s day. Right off the bat, I’ll say that nothing in this post is fabricated. We got you in the paper already. Personally, I always forget what day it is and get suckered in by something so amazing that I don’t want to believe it’s a fake story. A few years ago,...
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Tags: AI: Artificial Intelligence, April Fool's Pranks, Aubrey Plaza, Being There, chris pine, Colin Farrell, Documentaries, Elizabeth Banks, Hal Ashby, House at the End of the Street, Im Sang-soo, Jayne Eyre, jennifer lawrence, Jennifer Lawrence's Cleavage, Jon Favreau, journalism, Kate Beckinsale, Madam Bovary, Mark Duplass, Mark Romanek, Mia Wasikowska, Natalia Tena, Neighborhood Watch, Olivia Wilde, Orson Welles, People Like Us, Peter Bagdonovich, Peter Dinklage, Pixar, Pixar's Brave, Racism, Renderman, Robert Redford, Safety Not Guaranteed, Sarah Polley, Sasha Baron Cohen's The Dictator, Shunji Iwai's Vampire, Sleepless Night, Steven Spielberg, Take this Waltz, The Hunger Games, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Taste of Money, Tonight You're Mine, Total Recall
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The Artist will win this award tomorrow night. Some people will be happy, some people will be livid. Most people will shrug because they haven’t seen it. I will probably shrug even though I have seen it. I liked it as a film. It was fun and whimsical and, most importantly for a gimmick film,...
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Tags: Alexander Payne, Bennett Miller, Best Picture, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Hugo, martin scorsese, Michael Hazanavicius, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, Oscars, Stephen Daldry, Steven Spielberg, Tate Taylor, Terrence Malick, The Artist, the Descendants, The Help, The Tree of Life, War Horse, Woody Allen
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Seriously, tonight is one of those epics nights on TCM as they venture on their Bundy vacation to… beautiful Wyoming! Huh? Wyoming? But seriously, it’s great, starting at 6:30 with the Henry Fonda western, The Ox Bow Incident, then at 8 for Steven Speilberg’s crazy-genuis-reason-for-living, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. After that, it’s Kirk...
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Tags: 31 Days of Oscar, Cat Ballou, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Henry Fonda, Howard Hawks, Jane Fonda, kirk douglas, Lee Marvin, No Sex Tonight, Richard Dreyfus, Steven Spielberg, TCM, The Big Sky, The Ox Bow Incident, Wyoming
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We’re taking a break from Christmas Crazy today, but it’ll be back with a vengeance tomorrow. But the first thing we need to do this weekend is pause to say RIP Bert Schneider, the man who gave us Head. Okay, I should explain that. When Schneider and his partners Bob Rafelson and Steve Blauner...
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Tags: BBS Film, Bert Schneider, black panthers, Bob Rafelson, Brooke Busey, Burj Khalifa, Caligula, Casa de mi Padre, Diablo Cody, Dubai, Fempire, Gang Hye-jeong, HBO, Huey P. Newton, John Ford, Last Tango in Paris, Lena Dunham's Girls, Liz Taylor, Men in Black 3, Mia Wasikoska, Michel Gondry, Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol, Oldboy, Park Chan-wook, rock of ages, Sasha Baron Cohen's The Dictator, Spike Lee, star trek, Star Wars, Steve Blauner, Steven Spielberg, Taxi Driver, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Monkees' Head, The Spielberg Face, tiny furniture, Tom Cruise, Twilight, War Horse, Welcome to Dongmakgol, Will Ferrel, Young Adult
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So I suppose it would be a three-way tie for “story of the week” this week. Depending on your level of interest, it was either Steve McQueen’s Shame getting an NC-17 rating (what a silly rating), Joss Whedon making a secret movie of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, or, unfortunately, Lindsay Lohan agreeing to...
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Tags: Aaron Sorkin, Abigail Breslin, Arrietty, Chronicle, David Fincher, Dr. Seuss, Halloween, Horror Movies, Indiana Jones 4, Janie Jones, JB Smoove, Joss Whedon, Kal Penn, Lindsay Lohan, martin scorsese, MI:4 - Ghost Protocol, Much Ado, Nicolas Wending Refn, Paranormal Activity 3, Rooney Mara, Shame, Steve Jobs, steve mcqueen, Steven Spielberg, Studio Ghibli, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Lorax, Universal Halloween Horror Nights, We Need to Talk About Kevin
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So, yeah, the week was mostly dominated by the death of Apple co-founder and Pixar Studios godfather Steve Jobs. And rightly so. As Bill Maher pointed out on his show on Friday, in this ridiculously divisive world where everyone hates everyone, Jobs was one of the few people liked by both the Left and...
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Tags: Abigail Breslin, Being Elmo, Charlie Kaufman, Charlotte Gainsbourg's boobs, Claire Danes, darren aronofsky, Diablo Cody, Edgar Allan Poe, Emma Watson, Homeland, Janie Jones, Jason Reitman, John Cusack, Katherine Heigl, kirsten dunst, Lars von Trier, Maurice Sendak, Melancholia, michelle williams, Miranda July, Moneyball, My So-Called Life, My Week With Marilyn, Noah, Oktoberfest, Pixar, Primer, Steve Jobs, Steven Spielberg, The Hurt Locker, The Other F Word, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Raven, Tintin, Walter Isaacson, War Horse, Young Adult
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I went on a little nostalgia trip this week, as IFC was playing House Party, the Kid N’ Play epic about… well, you know… a house party. Aside from the side characters (especially the neighbor yelling out the window played by John Witherspoon), the funniest thing about the movie is how hilariously bad the...
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Tags: adaptation, Anna Paquin, Apollo 18, Brett Rattner, Cameron Crowe, Cary Grant, Charlie Kaufman, Drei, E.T., Eddie Murphy, George Lucas, House Party, Indiana Jones, Jaws, JB Smoove, Jessica Chastain, John Cusack, John Witherspoon, Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret, Kevin Smith, Kid N' Play, Madonna, Mark Kermode, Michael Bay, nasa, Netflix, Oscars, Say Anything, Spike Jonze, Star Wars, Star Wars Alterations, Starz Play, Steven Spielberg, Tom Tykwer, W.E., Wallis Simpson, Zooey Deschanel
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We’re going to have a really light Roundup this week. I just flew back from Denver and between flying, unpacking, cleaning, getting Netflix to work on my PS3 again while simultaneously being outraged over the $19.58 they charged me (wasn’t that supposed to be in September?), I haven’t gotten my real life back in...
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Tags: Another Earth, Anton Yelchin, Brett Ratner, Brit Marling, Denver, Drive, Felicity Jones, Francis Ford Coppola, Friday Night Lights, God, Harry Allen, Like Crazy, Marilyn Monroe, Matt Damon, Miley Cyrus, Netflix, Nicholas Scmidle, OBL, Osama bin Laden, Oscars, Robert Redford, ryan gosling, Seal Team Six, Steven Soderbergh, Steven Spielberg, Twixt, Val Kilmer
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