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question of the day: Should women feel obligated to buy a ticket for ‘Bridesmaids’?

Mon, May 16, 2011
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I don’t want to see more movies like Bridesmaids, not about women or men, and I can guarantee you that buying a ticket for Bridesmaids will be interpreted by Hollywood as “women want to see grossout comedies”…

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great movie quotes: ‘Thor’

Mon, May 16, 2011
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“You just made some of the most highly trained professionals in the world look like minimum-wage mall cops. That’s hurtful.” –Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg) to Thor (Chris Hemsworth), and more…

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great movie quotes: ‘Insidious’

Mon, May 16, 2011
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“It sounds like a joke: A man comes home to find his wife with a priest…” –Josh (Partrick Wilson), and more…

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Facebook smears Google; Disney trademarks “Seal Team 6”; men made ‘Bridesmaids’ suck; more: leftover links

Sun, May 15, 2011
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Plus: Johnny Depp can’t see his own 3D POTC movie; Woody Allen sorta down on his own movies; why did Mel Gibson’s The Beaver flop?

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‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Doctor’s Wife”

Sun, May 15, 2011
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Thank you. Thank you so much, Neil Gaiman. Like I need this achy void in my gut on a Sunday afternoon. Like I need to be all weepy over a police box and a crazy lonely Time Lord.

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Saturday cute: handy flowchart helps you choose your next sci-fi addiction

Sat, May 14, 2011
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We’re gonna run out of new Doctor Whos very soon with this truncated half-season nonsense. What will you watch then?

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question of the weekend: Is a new intellectual culture taking shape in America?

Sat, May 14, 2011
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If so, can it happen fast enough to save us?

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Friday night fortune cookie: Kermit the Frog says…

Sat, May 14, 2011
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“Life’s like a movie. Write your own ending.”

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watch it: “Albino Porcupine Eating an Acorn”

Sat, May 14, 2011
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I’m totally naming my band Albino Porcupine…

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‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Kenneth Branagh is a Whovian

Fri, May 13, 2011
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Listen for Craig Ferguson pimping out Karen Gillan to Branagh. Also, there’s a quite bad double entendre about the TARDIS. Fun!

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