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By that I mean: Perhaps you like watching movies best in a multiplex, but for whatever reasons — the expense, the decline of the multiplex experience, etc — you mostly watch movies on DVD. And so on…
The title of *Dinner for Schmucks* has prompted some debate among a few friends of mine, who are astonished that the studio is actually using that word in their title…
I don’t always sit through all the credits, but the idea that the movie theater employees are mad if I do is outrageous.
This week the British government announced the shutdown the UK Film Council. Is the decision tragically naive, or is there reason not to despair?
Today’s question comes from reader Lorenzo Lamas: Should Inception get a sequel? And I’ll add: What direction would a possible Inception sequel go in? Should we revisit Cobb to see how he’s faring after then end of the film? (I say no, to preserve the unanswered but intriguing questions raised by the ending.) How about … more…
It’s official: Daniel Craig has been cast as Mikael Blomkvist in the Hollywood English-language production of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I still kinda don’t see the point of remaking the movie so soon — the Swedish-language version is fantastic — but there’s no escaping it now. But it got me thinking about movies … more…
Are you familiar with the blog Bad Astronomy? It’s where, in part, astronomer Phil Plait dissects how TV and film get the science wrong in their science fiction, and even sometimes in their science “fact,” as when he rips apart alien-abduction and moon-landing-hoax “documentaries.” Now, as Web Newser reports (and as Plait himself posted the … more…
Do you have a tattoo? If you do, what is it and where on your body is it (to whatever degree you feel comfortable revealing this)? How old were you when you got it, and why did you get it? Do you ever regret it? If you don’t, would you consider getting one, and if … more…
In my day, the great debate was “Star Wars or Star Trek”? Today it appears to be “Harry Potter or Twilight”? (Openminded and ecumenical fans have always known that there was no need to choose, that there is always plenty of passion to spread around.) The half-not-kidding jokes about Your Favorite TV Show or Movie … more…
Comic Con starts today in San Diego. I’ve never attended a Comic Con — well, apart from the upstart New York one a couple years back — it looks as if perhaps I may never get to experience San Diego Comic Con in the form that made it legendary in the first place. At least … more…
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