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Not long ago, we talked about how we research movie showtimes in the wake of some major newspapers ending their longtime practice of running movie listings. Now, it’s TV’s turn. USA Today informs us that “TVGuide.com spruces up to appeal to more viewers”: [TV Guide Online’s general manager, Paul] Greenberg is eager to show that … more…
Now I get what everyone was bitching about last year with *Juno,* about how self-conscious screenwriter Diablo Cody’s dialogue was, how desperate it was to sound cool and hip even to the point of distraction.
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Treats the charming nonsense of food falling from the sky like weather with exactly the sort of bouyant nimbleness it deserves…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… A new movie from Jane Campion is always something to welcome, and this one is even more beautiful and more Keatsy-mopey and more romantic than the trailer suggests. *sigh* It makes me want to go read some early-19th-century poetry… Bright Star opened yesterday in New York and … more…
When I read about Freshmen, I thought, This is so perfectly ridiculous and so perfectly perfect for the inanity that is the American sitcom, it’s shocking that no one has thought of it before. From Variety: Sitcom scribe Greg Malins (“Friends”) has partnered with Huffington Post maven Arianna Huffington to develop a sitcom for ABC … more…
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Fun for Wednesdays! We look at an image from an upcoming movie and write snarky, witty, or otherwise entertaining captions for it. No prizes, it’s just for fun. Is this the promise of the Internet? Overgrown frat-boy blogger Tucker Max managed to get his bestselling book I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell transfigured into … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Oh, what to make of this. Will it be funny? The trailer’s kinda funny. (Does it give away all the best jokes? Please, let that not be the case.) Will it be an awkward and uncomfortable movie-length rant about how “nice guys” never get the hot girls, … more…
Oh, the way they gouge fans. Turns out that when Terminator Salvation is released on DVD this autumn, it’ll be rated R for “some violence and brief nudity.” As I wrote recently about this very topic over at Film.com: Yup, because brief nudity is what was needed to make this movie suck less. As you … more…
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