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question of the day: What are your all-time favorite and least favorite comedy movies?

Mon, Dec 31, 2012
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As pure comedy goes, I might pick Midnight Run as my favorite. It never ceases to be hilarious even upon the 100th re-viewing, and it’s endlessly quotable, with applications for all sorts of real-life situations…

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question of the weekend: What is your preferred hangover cure?

Sat, Dec 29, 2012
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With New Year’s Eve almost upon us, this is a vital topic we must discuss…

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question of the day: What’s your favorite Christmas music album?

Fri, Dec 28, 2012
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Mine is, hands down, no question, John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together…

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question of the day: Can a movie look “too real”?

Thu, Dec 27, 2012
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Is there an overall essence to the idea of The Movies, even if the setting isn’t fantastical, that demands a feeling of unreality?

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question of the day: What nontraditional Christmas movie traditions do you have?

Wed, Dec 26, 2012
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(Apparently some folks think Die Hard is a “nontraditional” Christmas movie…)

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question of the day: Which Christmas song makes you want to stab an elf when it pops up during the holidays?

Tue, Dec 25, 2012
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“Christmas Shoes” is the one that makes me go nuclear-critical. That horrific little ditty has the highest schmaltz quotient ever achieved in a creation of humanity…

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question of the day: Why are so many Christmas movies so terrible?

Mon, Dec 24, 2012
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Now we come to that time of year when the cinematic faithful find ourselves pondering a great mystery…

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question of the weekend: What do you want for Christmas?

Sat, Dec 22, 2012
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Me? I just want the usual: world peace, a pony, and George Clooney.

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question of the day: Who is the entertainment person of the year for 2012?

Fri, Dec 21, 2012
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Please don’t say Honey Boo Boo or I will have to kill myself.

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question of the day: Is our storytelling culture tyrannized by the “happy ending”?

Thu, Dec 20, 2012
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Audience once embraced tragedy as readily as the happy ending. So what happened? How and why did this change?

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