trailer break: ‘Going the Distance’

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Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Really? Is Hollywood simply incapable of giving us anything close to comedy and/or romance these days that does not involve random physical humiliation “humor”? There aren’t enough genuine challenges and weirdnesses involved in a long-distance romance that idiotic and ridiculous ones have to be invented? Pubic hair … more…

question of the day: If it’s okay to worry that ‘Inception’ is too smart, where is the worry about movies that are too stupid?

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Inception has finally arrived, and now we’ll see if audiences feel the same way about it as critics do: reviews range from pretty good to rapturous, with only a few detractors (and not just Armond White, either!) But I’ve been noticing a particular tenor in the predictions of how audiences may react that I find … more…

is this site crashing your browser?

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I’ve had reports from one reader that something new here in the last few days is causing his Internet Explorer browser to crash intermittently. It’s possible that it could be a new ad in the rotation. Or something else that I simply can’t figure out. (Or possibly something unique to that one user’s browser situation.) … more…

‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: TARDIS backpack

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In 3D! Available for purchase — lots of them available! — at eBay U.K. Reader Keith sent this link, and he asks: Would you wear this to school? How about wearing it as an adult? Um, not me, thanks. I’m not that big a dork. (If you stumble across a cool Doctor Who thing, feel … more…

wtf: daycare sends six-year-olds to an R-rated movie

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Um, what? A Texas day care center is facing a state probe over allegations that it took a group of 6-year-olds to see a raunchy R-rated movie in Waco in July. Young Expressions Childcare in the Waco suburb of Bellmead, Texas, is under investigation by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, a spokesman … more…

my favorite new conspiracy theory

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At a site that looks like one of those horrid linky spammy fakey sites, someone — likely a foreign agent trying to sow discord in these United States of America, God bless her — posed this question (reproduced verbatim): Do movie critics hate the gernral puplic and intentionally give bad reviews to movies worth seeing … more…

trailer break: ‘Megamind’

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Take a break from work: watch a trailer… So, it’s to be Despicable Me meets The Incredibles, then? I can take it. Sucks, I suppose, to be the second movie of the year about an idea that probably seemed wildly original when it was in conceived only to be thrown back in your face when … more…