Okay, deep breath now. The movie news marathon that is 65th edition of the Festival de Cannes begins on Wednesday night with a screening of Wes Anderson’s highly anticipated Moonrise Kingdom (which opens here at the Enzian on 6/22). On Thursday morning it’s basically non-stop insanity until the following Sunday when the final films...
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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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Uh… hey. It’s Saturday afternoon. And I’ll admit it, I completely forgot this was due. My  dog ate my homework. Then it was spat out, into a puddle. A puddle of slobber from the mouth of a poodle. A poodle puddle. What was I supposed to do?!?! BEST DIRECTOR: Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) Alexander...
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A bit late this Sunday. I had woot canaw this week and needless to say I’ve been acting like a sick, hurt little baby all week, so I wasn’t as attentive as I usually am when it came to new hounding this week. It’s a bit of a thin link collection, and the best...
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So, we’ve been away from the Roundup for two weeks now and I’ve collected a whopping two stories over that time. Two. Honestly. Nothing about my scouting routine changed, there is just nothing going on lately except nonsense year end lists (except our year end list, which was awesome, of course), which are swiftly...
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Nothing happened this week. Seriously. There were some awful trailers for crap like What to Expect when You’re Expecting, and New Years Eve got sent through the critical buzzsaw as pretty much every who wasn’t involved in making it thought it would. Okay, the two things that happened this week were the Scott Rudin/David...
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I woke up with a pretty bad sore throat this morning, so just a quick bit before I go back to bed. I must ask: HOW THE HELL DID THIS TAKE A YEAR AND HALF TO BE FOUND? Grantland came up with a link to the full original Karate Kid, shot on video tape with its...
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Today, November 6th, 151 years ago (or seven score and 11 years ago, if you will), the nation elected Abraham Lincoln to the White House. Yesterday, November 5th, was also the 56th anniversary of Doc Brown cracking his head open and inventing the flux capacitor, which, indeed, is still fluxing. But enough of that....
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So, my big deal of the week (aside from the earthquake and hurricane and cats and dogs living together) was that I signed up for a month trial of Hulu+ to see about cancelling Netflix discs (since their spat with Criterion, the bluray selection has been severely disappointing and not worth the extra money...
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For most news outlets, the big news stories of the week were Harry Potter shattering basically every screen record ever (while also being pretty damn good), who got snubbed and who was undeserving in the Emmy noms, and the News of the World hacking scandal. Boooooring. The Netflix price hike was the thing that got under...
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