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Month: March 2008

frequently asinine questions: “Can I reprint your reviews for free?”

Mon, Mar 10, 2008
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Time for a new feature, one that dares to answer publicly all the questions I get all the time in email and that I answer again and again in private. Plus, they make my blood boil, and why shouldn’t you all share my pain? Here’s one that landed in my in-box this morning. The wording … more…

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daily list: 10 reasons why no one is going to the movies

Mon, Mar 10, 2008
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Okay, it’s not that absolutely no one is going to the movies — it’s just that a lot of people do seem to be avoiding the multiplex lately. And you can’t say that it’s because the movies are mostly crap. The movies are always mostly crap — this same time last year saw a huge … more…

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opening wide today: ‘10,000 B.C.,’ ‘College Road Trip,’ ‘The Bank Job’

Fri, Mar 07, 2008
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10,000 B.C. The guy who brought us aliens blowing up the White House in Independence Day now brings us cavemen chasing down woolly mammoths across the plains of the last ice age. I hear hunting the beasts is easier when the UFOs round them up for you. (my review) College Road Trip Martin Lawrence takes … more…

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daily list: 5 totally true and heartbreakingly tragic autobiographical screenplays I’m writing

Fri, Mar 07, 2008
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Have you heard about this bint Margaret B. Jones, whose real name is Margaret Seltzer, a boring white chick from, like, Sherman Oaks or somewhere who thought she could fool the world into thinking she was a gangbanger? The publishers of a critically acclaimed memoir about a girl raised by a black foster family who … more…

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my reaction to last night’s ‘Lost’

Fri, Mar 07, 2008
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Over at Film.com.

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George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead (review)

Fri, Mar 07, 2008
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I hate to say this — partly because I don’t want it to be true and partly because it’s such a terrible pun — but could the zombie movie finally be dead?

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screencap Friday: what the flick? #10

Fri, Mar 07, 2008
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Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from one of the DVDs in my collection (and it’s definitely from a movie, not a TV show). Guess the movie for fun and, well, fun. No prizes, just bragging rights.

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10,000 B.C. movie review: prehysterical

Fri, Mar 07, 2008
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Oh my god: the silly, it burns. It burns!

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watch it: “Simon’s Cat ‘Let Me In!’”

Fri, Mar 07, 2008
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Wonderful: From London animation studio Tandem Films, via John Scalzi’s Whatever. (Technorati tags: Simon’s Cat Let Me In)

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watch it: “Addicted to Oil By George Bush”

Thu, Mar 06, 2008
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Robert Palmer has a lot to answer for: (Technorati tags: Addicted to Oil, George Bush)

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