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Nothing to Praise
Wanted gets a 75% positive from the Rotten Tomatoes creme de la creme? Even the 64% rating on Metacritic is offensive. I suffered through this film; it gave me convulsions. The Oregonian's Shawn Levy and New York's David Edelstein are...
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Big Jaunt
ABC News guy Jake Tapper reported last night that Barack Obama will travel to Iraq, Afghanistan, Germany, France and England in mid-July. The Iraq-Afghanistan portion of the trip will be in the company of a congressional delegation. Cue the Middle...
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Glory in October
Gavin O'Connor's Pride and Glory is finally out of the distribution woods. Former New Line honcho Bob Shaye's decision early this year to bump this exceptional New York cop film into '09 is now null and void with Warner Bros....
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Cheers for Mr. Beaks
At least one other person, thank fortune, hates Wanted as much as I do -- AICN's Mr. Beaks! He says he's been getting slammed by the fan boys because of this. Life can be hard when you say it plain....
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Restored Godfather
I'm late acknowledging that Peter Bart ran a 6.23 story about the restoring of the Godfather negatives, and particularly two docs by Kim Aubry about (a) the making of the 1972 film and (b) the restoration project. Curiously, Bart didn't...
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Whoops
Earlier today Fox 411's Roger Friedman bluntly called Hancock, the Will Smith comic whatever that opens Tuesday, "a $150 million disaster...one of the worst family holiday weekend releases of recent memory -- jaw-droppingly so. And that's hard to do, since...
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Yesterday 's Tracking
WALL*E is running 88, 45, 26 -- extraordinary numbers for a family/kids movie because the kids aren't polled. Figure $50 to $60 million. Wanted, also opening this weekend, has similar numbers -- 86, 44, 26 -- but without the kid...
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Two Fresh Faces
If you're an MSNBC junkie you're going to feel deluged these days by two ads (i.e., advertisers) in particular -- those series of singing freecreditreport.com spots starring that guitar-strumming French-Canadian guy Eric Violette, and that amusing Travelocity ad showing the...
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Breathtaking PUMAs
"The stated goals of PUMA are to: 1. Support Senator Hillary Clinton. 2. Lobby and organize for changes in leadership in the DNC. 3. Critique and oppose misogyny, discrimination, and disinformation in the mainstream media, including mainstream blogs and other...
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"Flawless Masterpiece"
"While fandom might be nervous that the film has been hyped too hard or it won't deliver what we all hoped it could, I am here to report The Dark Knight is a masterpiece," writes Collider's Steve Weintraub. "And unlike...
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Flu Movies
"I prefer to watch shitty movies so I can feel good about myself. There is nothing better than sitting in bed and enjoying a shitty comedy. I laugh at the bad jokes and I smile as I convince myself, as...
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Become It
To buzz around Rome on a scooter is not the life-threatening experience some would describe. At all. You just have to be sharp and watchful and submit yourself to the Roman rules of the road. You can't wimp out ....
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Two Sides of the Fence
New York's Vulture guys, assessing the so-far universal praise for Pixar's WALL*E, are trying to kick-start a campaign to give it a "real" Best Picture Oscar next February instead of -- in their minds -- an allegedly downgraded substitute tribute...
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Screw CGI
In a 6.23 Wired piece, Scott Brown has portrayed -- emphasized -- director Chris Nolan's commitment to keeping the hard-drive special effects down to a minimum in The Dark Knight. "For Nolan, reality beats the hell out of gee-whiz special...
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Screw CGI
In a 6.23 Wired piece, Scott Brown has portrayed -- emphasized -- director Chris Nolan's commitment to keeping the hard-drive special effects down to a minimum in The Dark Knight. "For Nolan, reality beats the hell out of gee-whiz special...
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Inevitably Ledger's?
"I just returned from a Dark Knight screening" -- the one for junketeers they had last night at the Bridge -- "and I wanted to commit this to a public forum as quickly as possible," KTLA's Sam Rubin wrote last...
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Inevitably Ledger's?
"I just returned from a Dark Knight screening" -- the one for junketeers they had last night at the Bridge -- "and I wanted to commit this to a public forum as quickly as possible," KTLA's Sam Rubin wrote last...
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LAFF Thursday Night
Rob Reiner, Pete Hammond just before pre-screening q & a at Billy Wilder theatre -- Thursday, 6.26.08, 8:08 pm. A screening of Reiner's The American President followed. Guillermo del Toro, director of Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, and intelligent...
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Ardor Cools
The best thing about He's Just Not That Into You, a New Line release that was supposed to come out on 10.24.08, has been the very cool title. Perhaps that's the only cool thing about it. A 6.26 Life &...
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Tetro Wraps
Francis Coppola's Tetro wrapped today after 63 days of principal photography in Buenos Aires and Patagonia. Additional shooting of an original ballet will be required in Madrid, Spain. Post-production will be based in Buenos Aires, Valencia, Spain and Italy, anticipating...
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