on my way home…

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I’m sitting in Heathrow Airport — in the new Terminal 5, which looks like something out of a science fiction movie — waiting for my flight to call for boarding. I so don’t want to go home… Plans for the next days, weeks, and months: • Post my thoughts on David Tennant in Love’s Labour’s … more…

5 reasons I’m psyched for ‘Pride & Glory’

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All this week! 5 movies I’m psyched for in October, and 5 reasons why. No. 5: Pride & Glory [opens wide October 24]. 1. Norton! Farrell! They’re cops! 2. Colin Farrell does a killer New York accent. No pun intended. 3. I have this weird feeling — I don’t know why, and I concede that … more…

trailer break: ‘Nothing Like the Holidays’

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Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… It’s every ain’t-my-family-crazy-at-Christmas movie you’ve ever seen, except this crazy-family-that’s-just-like-every-other-family is Hispanic. This is what we call progress. Nothing Like the Holidays opens wide December 12.

screencap Friday: what the flick? #39

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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. But hey: one guess per comment — no fair hogging all the guesses.

‘Sanctuary’ debuts tonight on Sci Fi

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It’s a little bit *Matrix*y, a little bit *Hellboy*ish, a little bit *Buffy,* a little bit *Beauty and the Beast* (the Ron Perlman/Linda Hamilton urban fantasy, that is). So I can’t believe how really boring the pilot is.

I *am* a rocknrolla

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I haven’t really been inspired, anywhere I’ve been in England or Wales, to crush any heads, but I did find this big pile of rocks that seemed to demand rearranging…

I found the entrance to the dwarven halls!

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Another pic from my journeys through England: Khazad-dûm! This is a door of a church in the Cotswolds village of Stow-on-the-Wold, which some folks think may have inspired Tolkien — who was based in nearby Oxford — when he was writing The Lord of the Rings.

5 reasons I’m psyched for ‘RocknRolla’

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All this week! 5 movies I’m psyched for in October, and 5 reasons why. No. 4: RocknRolla [opens limited October 8, wide October 31]. 1. Cute guys with British accents. 2. It’s about con artists, who are always entertaining. In the movies, at least. 3. Guy Ritchie. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch … more…