Summer is over — at least by the somewhat skewed metric of motion-picture exhibition — and that means it’s time for me to compare my box-office predictions with the way reality actually shook out. Most entertainment writers don’t do this, you’ll notice: Their end-of-season post mortems conveniently ignore the forecasts they themselves had issued...
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On the heels of The Dark Knight Rises shootings, then, the responsibility is great for Orlando’s most daring public speakers to haiku us out of the “too soon” weeds.
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It’s kind of hard to get away from the Olympics right now, even for movie writers. The Olympics are, in some ways, more cinematic than movies are. Nerves, last gasp thrills and lots (and lots) of tears. All the things we love about movies. I was shocked this week to read that women and...
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Just over a week ago, I was planning to blog about the rampant misreadings I was certain critics were going to make of The Dark Knight Rises. When the perceived political stance of the film got pushed off the opinion pages by the horrific events in Aurora, I figured I’d instead have to defend...
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With the Orlando opening of Beasts of the Southern Wild abruptly pushed back until next Friday, Aug. 3, your weekend moviegoing choices just got narrower — especially if you’re one of those Squeamish Sallies who have a thing about reminded of real-life violence during your leisure hours. Option 1: You could check out The Dark Knight...
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This week in movies fucking sucked and I don’t want to talk about it. I stopped paying attention to Twitter and blogs on Friday morning, so this week is soft on links. When I went to sleep on Thursday night (well, Friday morning), the story was “unconfirmed shooting at Batman screening in Denver.” I...
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The Dark Knight Rises — Everybody in the business of making and exhibiting motion pictures is so afraid of the expected behemoth that is TDKR (reviewed this week) that not a single other new film is opening in Orlando this weekend. There isn’t even some underpublicized indie slipping into Regal Winter Park Village for a...
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After careful consideration on Thursday evening as I talked to a few people I know who are attending Comic Con this week, I decided not to bother keeping up with it this year, and not to post any Con info here. If you’re interested in Comic Con news, you’ve already been paying attention and...
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Well, now we know what America’s superhero nerds are going to do after their Dark Knight Rises buzz wears off and they have to face the prospect of a couple of years without a Batman movie: get in line for the Courageous Cat movie! Via Deadline comes the frankly bizarre news that the 1960 TV...
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What an incredibly, monumentally, stunningly boring week this was as far as film news goes. Between the blackouts in the Mid-Atlantic that knocked a bunch of web services offline and the 4th of July getting in the middle of everyone’s shit and Comic Con next weekend (and Scott Howson refusing to trade Rich Nash…...
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