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weekend box office: ‘Ice’ twice as nice, ‘Benchwarmers’ pretty warm

Mon, Apr 10, 2006

The Scrat continues to dominate the box office; keeping ‘Benchwarmers’ from critics doesn’t hurt…

weekend box office: Ice Age, Ice Age, baby

Mon, Apr 03, 2006

Ice Age 2 rakes in a ton of cold hard cash…

Johansson tops sexy list

Wed, Mar 29, 2006

Seriously, these people need to learn how to spell my name correctly…

weekend box office: ‘Inside Man’ steals the limelight from ‘Vendetta’

Mon, Mar 27, 2006

Clive and Denzel beat up Hugo and Natalie…

does anyone get ‘V for Vendetta’?

Mon, Mar 20, 2006

Even the positive reviews of the film embody a certain stubbornness to misunderstand it.

weekend box office: ‘V for Vendetta’ doesn’t fail to launch

Mon, Mar 20, 2006

Anonymous stars in huge movies? Ask Hugo and Zooey…

Salma Hayek: fat by Hollywood standards

Thu, Mar 16, 2006

If this is fat, who needs thin?

weekend box office: failure to launch? alas, not so much

Mon, Mar 13, 2006

‘Failure to Launch’ fail, alas, to live up to its name, but ‘The Shaggy Dog’ kinda does.

X-Men posters too good not to steal

Tue, Mar 07, 2006
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I’m no fan of fashion photography, but it’s the hint of it in these X-Men teaser posters that so intrigues me…

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weekend box office: Madea beats the crap out of Bruce Willis

Mon, Mar 06, 2006

No drag for Madea, dying is hard for Willis…

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