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Didja notice the MPAA rating on Alice in Wonderland? rated PG for fantasy action/violence involving scary images and situations, and for a smoking caterpillar Not just for smoking, which is a warning we see often enough these days. Alice doesn’t bother the MPAA merely for the fact that it contains smoking. It bothers the MPAA … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Looks like Atom Egoyan’s been watching Fatal Attraction, or maybe some softcore porn… Chloe is now playing in the U.K.; it opens in the U.S. and Canada on March 26.
We should thank Tim Burton for his *Alice in Wonderland,* for it does one thing extraordinarily well: It reminds us that James Cameron really did achieve something new and astonishing with *Avatar.*
Okay, time for the postmortem. Did any award surprise you? (Nominees and winners here.) Who gave the best speech? (It was Sandra Bullock, wasn’t it?) Which movie do you feel like you really have to see now? What was the funniest moment of the ceremony? (Tina Fey and Robert Downey Jr. on writers, I think.) … more…
…after being out for most of the day on Sunday. Apparently there was some caving on both sides. I’m gonna hang on to those HD rabbit ears I wasted too much time and money on Sunday acquiring and setting up, because this is sure to be but the first of many similar disputes we’ll see … more…
UPDATED: Winners are indicated with ♦s. I made informed guesses in 20 of the 24 categories; of those, I guessed 12 correctly. (Well, 13, really, except that in the animated short category in the original version of this page, I had both “The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)” and “Logorama” checked … more…
…Crazy Interrupting French Lady Follies. Discuss.
…that Steve Martin has already Godwin’d the Oscars with his Meryl Streep-loves-Nazis joke. Open thread for the first hour or so of the Oscars…
…boxers by Hanes and a t-shirt by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Consider this your Oscars red carpet open thread. 7:30PM: It just occurred to me that until women’s eveningwear is as subdued as a man’s tuxedo, women will never be allowed to talk about just their work on the red carpet. Conversely, until men start … more…
Take a look back at an old trailer… I don’t think I’ve ever seen this Disney movie… or if I have, I have no memory of it whatsoever. The thing is, maybe, that I was a little kid in the dark ages before home video. I would have had to see this in a theater … more…
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