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blame Twitter for Wil Wheaton’s nonblogging; ‘Shit My Dad Says’ shitcanned; Catherine Tate may take over ‘The Office’; more: leftover links

Sun, May 22, 2011
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Plus: Cannes shocked by We Need to Talk About Kevin and Lars von Trier; family values robot from the future Arnold Schwarzenegger turns out to be a hypocrite…

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no ‘Doctor Who’ blogging on “The Rebel Flesh” till tonight

Sun, May 22, 2011
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Sorry: real life intrudes. Feel free to chat here about the episode if you can’t wait.

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great movie quotes: ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’

Sat, May 21, 2011
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“Does this face look like I’ve been to the Fountain of Youth?” –Captain Teague (Keith Richards), and more

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Saturday cute: knitted Rebel Alliance emblem

Sat, May 21, 2011
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The coolest thing about this is how it came about…

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question of the weekend: How have you prepared for the Rapture?

Sat, May 21, 2011
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It is unlikely that you will be among the lucky few who are teleported up into the glorious presence of the Almighty, so you’ll have to have something to keep you busy during the tortures of the damned here on Earth…

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Friday night fortune cookie: Captain Jack Sparrow says…

Fri, May 20, 2011
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“The deepest circle of hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers.”

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‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Neil Gaiman on missing scenes from “The Doctor’s Wife”

Fri, May 20, 2011
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Some stuff Gaiman wrote never made it into the episode, which is a shame, because it sounds great…

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cute animal video: Eleanor Powell and her amazing dancing dog

Fri, May 20, 2011
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From the 1941 MGM musical Lady Be Good…

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trailer break: ‘The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn’ teaser

Fri, May 20, 2011
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This is some serious geekgasm: Written by Steven Moffat and Edgar Wright. Produced by Peter Jackson. Directed by Steven Spielberg.

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question of the day: Should we — films critics and movie lovers alike — include TV movies when we talk about the best movies of the year?

Fri, May 20, 2011
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The movie lover in me cheers at the proposition: Hoorah! Let’s celebrate all good movies wherever they appear. But the film critic in me despairs: Damn, I can’t keep up with the theatrical releases, and now I gotta make it a point to see all the major TV-movie premieres, too?

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