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Denis Leary

Oh. My. God. I love Denis Leary. (and other adventures in social networking)

Wed, Jul 11, 2012
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Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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Ice Age: Continental Drift (review)

Mon, Jul 09, 2012
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It’s movies like this one that make me despair. Because it is going to make a bazillion bucks at the box office around the world, and there’s absolute nothing here that warrants such success.

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The Amazing Spider-Man (review)

Mon, Jul 02, 2012
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The Amazing Spider-Man? That’s a stretch. More like the Halfhearted Spider-Man. The Just-Sorta-There Spider-Man. The Familiar Spider-Man…

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July 31: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings

Thu, Jul 30, 2009
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We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but Adam Sandler dying of some awful disease isn’t your idea of a good time. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did you … more…

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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (review)

Tue, Jun 30, 2009
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This is how far cartoons have descended in the last decade and a half: *The Lion King* was Shakespearean. *Ice Age* is *Everybody Loves Raymond*ean.

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Wag the Dog movie review: art imitates life (or is it the other way around?)

Mon, Jan 26, 1998
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Wag the Dog is satire, and its object of ridicule here is not politicians or the media but the gullible and ignorant American people….

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