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trailer break: Danny Boyle’s ‘Frankenstein’ at London’s National Theatre

Fri, Feb 25, 2011
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It’s theater, but it’s cinema, too…

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trailer break: ‘Beastly’

Thu, Feb 24, 2011
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Can we expect to have Alex Pettyfer forced on us on a regular basis now? Who decides guys like him are to be transformed into movie stars? Ack.

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trailer break: ‘Rango’

Wed, Feb 23, 2011
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A lizard who isn’t adapted to the desert? Why? Was he raised by elves or something?

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question of the day: Just what the hell is the girl in the ‘Drive Angry’ poster looking at?

Tue, Feb 22, 2011
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I suspect it’s Nicolas Cage’s dignity, which has been run over repeatedly in the road behind them and is now struggling feebly to get up again and may just succeed in staggering pathetically in Cage’s direction (before he zooms off again)…

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trailer break: ‘His and Hers’

Tue, Feb 22, 2011
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Seventy Irish women of all ages talk about the men in their lives. Looks sweet…

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what he said: Josh Tyler at Cinema Blend…

Mon, Feb 21, 2011
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…on how “True Grit’s Oscar Nomination Is A Surrender To Creative Bankruptcy”…

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trailer break: ‘Shelter’

Mon, Feb 21, 2011
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What’s that? A movie starring Julianne Moore and Jonathan Rhys Meyers can’t get released in North America?

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trailer break: ‘Hall Pass’

Fri, Feb 18, 2011
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I’m really starting to hate Owen Wilson.

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an imaginary conversation about the movie ‘Unknown’

Thu, Feb 17, 2011
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Liam Neeson is in an accident, and all of a sudden his wife January Jones doesn’t know him. I bet she totally wishes she could do that to Don Draper…

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trailer break: ‘Animal Kingdom’

Thu, Feb 17, 2011
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Jacki Weaver is one of the Oscar nominees for Best Supporting Actress this year, so it’s about time I caught up with this…

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