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‘The Hobbit’ drains the hotness from its hot dwarves

Sun, Jul 17, 2011
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Dammit! I knew this was gonna happen! They buried the beauty of Richard Armitage under makeup…

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blue popcorn at ‘The Smurfs’

Sun, Jul 17, 2011
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I saw The Smurfs this morning. I’m smurfed if I say anything about it yet…

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celeb news of the week: Tilda Swinton didn’t know about Oscars

Sun, Jul 17, 2011
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Oh, God, she’s too adorable for words. Or too totally full of shit.

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press release of the week: “Digital movie delivery is a deceit,” says Facets

Sun, Jul 17, 2011
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Gotta love it. While everyone is talking about streaming, Facets is proudly old-school…

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Bedknobs and Broomsticks (fanmade retro trailer)

Sun, Jul 17, 2011
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I bet Angela Lanbury’s witch was a Hogwarts graduate…

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I fooled the universe tonight (aka expecto transitus!)

Sun, Jul 17, 2011
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You know how it is: You’re waiting and waiting and waiting for the bus that never comes, and so you finally resolve to jump in a taxi… and just as you’re getting in, the bus you stood around for 20 minutes for pulls up behind you.

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London photo of the day: skateboard graveyard

Sat, Jul 16, 2011
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A skateboard graveyard off the Golden Jubilee predestrian bridges over the Thames, near the Royal Festival Hall.

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Saturday cute: Giger Alien wedding cake

Sat, Jul 16, 2011
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I’d be afraid to cut into it, for it surely has acid for filling.

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the cruelest comment ever posted on the Internet

Sat, Jul 16, 2011
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I know, I know: There’s been a lot of mean, heartless shit posted by trolls and assholes on the Web, but I really do think we have a winner here…

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question of the weekend: What would be the equivalent of L.A.’s Carmageddon where you live?

Sat, Jul 16, 2011
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It’s Carmageddon in Los Angeles this weekend, as a long stretch of a major highway in the perhaps the most car-crazy city in the U.S. — if not the world — is closed for some heavy-duty construction work…

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