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Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
…but can it hold on through the holidays? 1. The Princess and the Frog: $24.2 million (NEW in wide release) 2. The Blind Side: $15.1 million (4th week; drops 25%) 3. Invictus: $8.6 million (NEW) 4. The Twilight Saga: New Moon: $8 million (4th week; drops 48%) 5. A Christmas Carol: $6.8 million actual numbers, … more…
…Katherine Heigl doesn’t know what grownup is, and Orphan knows that women deserve only punishment. It’s fun! Yup, it’s another installment of The Week in Women, my regular column over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Enjoy.
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but have you seen the price of a ticket these days? That’s the real “ugly truth” at the multiplex. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on … more…
I’m trying to figure out when ‘romantic comedies’ turned into ‘let’s throw two really despicable and unpleasant people together in the first act so they can hate on each other through the second act until they magically fall in love in the third act.’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Oh god, she’s one of those, isn’t she? Background checks before a first date. Assuming something a guy wrote in his online profile is the entire totality of his personality and tastes. Oh god, he’s one of those, isn’t he? Women are fatties, unless they aren’t, which … more…
The problem is not that *Knocked Up* is “liberal” because it’s about casual sex and having a baby out of wedlock. The problem is that it is horribly conservative about embracing and enjoying an adult version of sexuality that has moved beyond dorm-room-esque groping.
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