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A Few Best Men (trailer)

Wed, Jul 04, 2012
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This could be a first (excluding Adam Sandler movies): a trailer for — allegedly — a comedy that features not one single solitary funny moment.

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The Artist will have a good night (and other Oscar predictions)

Sat, Feb 25, 2012
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Here’s an at-a-glance look at my picks for tomorrow night’s Academy Awards…

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AWFJ announces 2011 awards

Wed, Jan 11, 2012
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So happy that The Artist is Best Film for us…

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question of the day: Has Hollywood abandoned young men?

Tue, Nov 15, 2011
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Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean, Thor, Green Lantern, X-Men, Captain America, etc. This is what 2011 looks like at the movies. In what way can it be construed that young men are “endangered” at the box office?

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question of the day: Is Hollywood trying to kill the DVD rental business?

Mon, Nov 07, 2011
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Have you come across DVD rental copies of movies that are somehow disabled or hobbled? Have you seen other evidence of an attempt to squash the rental business?

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things you need to know: Amazon is better than Netflix and Redbox, you dumbass

Tue, Sep 20, 2011
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You think you’re all hip and modern and 21st-century and what have you with your streaming and your little red envelopes of DVDs coming to your mailbox. Ha. Amazon wants you to know: You ain’t shit, dude.

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question of the day: What’s your favorite or most powerful memory of a communal moviegoing experience?

Mon, Aug 29, 2011
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If you’ve seen Rise of the Planet of the Apes, you may have experienced a phenomenon that’s been reported by many moviegoers this summer, of one particular moment causing the entire crowd to gasp in stunned shock…

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I am officially tired of the “slow group walk through an airport”

Fri, Jun 03, 2011
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It’s not cool, and it doesn’t cover up the hell that is traveling through an American airport these days — security theater, TSA gropings, etc…

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imagine if I wrote this…

Mon, May 30, 2011
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“Comedies with male casts have always been something I avoided. The jokes and the humor are often challenging to someone with ovaries.”

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blame Twitter for Wil Wheaton’s nonblogging; ‘Shit My Dad Says’ shitcanned; Catherine Tate may take over ‘The Office’; more: leftover links

Sun, May 22, 2011
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Plus: Cannes shocked by We Need to Talk About Kevin and Lars von Trier; family values robot from the future Arnold Schwarzenegger turns out to be a hypocrite…

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