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It’s less than a week till Christmas Eve. You still need something cool for someone special… or maybe you’re just looking to reward yourself with some holiday cheer. Well, never fear: your Auntie Flick Chick is here to help. Sure, you may pay a little more for express shipping, or you may have to actually … more…
The strike by television and film writers continues into its seventh week, with no end in sight. I happen to know, thanks to a mysterious informant from the future, that it’s going to last at least another six months, and that the impact upon television is going to be dire, with the networks forced to … more…
See it: • Stardust [buy it]. From my review: I wish I could be more enthusiastic about Stardust. I like it just fine: it’s sweet and amusing and nicely diverting. And it’s colorful enough and clever enough and jam-packed enough with all sorts of pretty to wonder at that if this is your kinda thing, … more…
Seventeen hours before it opens with Thursday midnight showings, Disney will screen National Treasure: Book of Secrets [opens December 21] for us critics. Hoorah for the return of Nicolas Cage as an Indiana Jones wannabe. Yes, I’m being sarcastic, cuz the first one was soooo great. The ransacking of history going on this time out: … more…
What if we all stopped shopping? Not for the basic necessities, obviously, but what if we stopped buying all the useless gadgets and made-in-China junk that we don’t need, that pushes us deeper into debt, that fails to satisfy the inarticulate cravings that send us to the mall on a recreational buying binge in the first place?
Biggest. December opening. Evah: Splendid disaster: Will Smith plus Judgment Day yields Boffo box office (I’m one quarter of the way through a year of haikus! I wasn’t sure I’d even get this far. Go me!)
Oh, but this is a beautiful film about human ugliness — spinelessness, small-mindedness, selfishness, and shame — and the possibility of moving beyond it all to a new place of joy, one that’s all the more meaningful for being so hard won.
More from writer-performer John Roberts: Time for me to get my tree! (Technorati tags: Christmas Tree, John Roberts)
TNT’s Saving Grace is back after a bit of a hiatus to wrap up its first season tonight and tomorrow with the last of its new episodes, and they’re good stuff. This has been one of the best new shows of the year: it’s smart stuff that trusts you can keep up with its dense … more…
It’s a week till Christmas Eve. You still need something cool for someone special… or maybe you’re just looking to reward yourself with some holiday cheer. Well, never fear: your Auntie Flick Chick is here to help. Sure, you may pay a little more for express shipping, or you may have to actually haul ass … more…
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