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question of the day: Do you find Mystique — ‘X-Men’s scaly, blue-skinned shapeshifting mutant — beautiful?

Wed, Jun 08, 2011
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The answer interests me because there seems to be such a divide between the fictional world Mystique lives in and our own in how her appearacen is perceived…

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question of the day: Is it ever a good idea to ban any film… even ‘The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)’?

Tue, Jun 07, 2011
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As disgusting and reprehensible as a movie may be, doesn’t a ban bring even more attention to a film that it might otherwise have received had it been labeled with the most restrictive rating the BBFC can dole out?

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question of the day: If you were going to invent a new Oscar category à la the MTV Movie Awards, what would it be, and who or what would be the definitive example of a winner?

Mon, Jun 06, 2011
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Perhaps the best thing about the MTV Movie Awards is its cheeky categories: Best Kiss, Best Fight, Best Villain. The Oscars could use a few fun categories to enliven its broadcast each year…

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question of the weekend: If you could do a Freaky Friday switcheroo with anyone, who would it be?

Sat, Jun 04, 2011
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It could be a real person — your first grade teacher, a glamorous movie star or famous athlete, maybe your own sibling — or it could be a hypothetical someone: perhaps a person doing a job you’d love to try, for instance…

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question of the day: What should be the plot and setting for ‘The Hangover Part III’?

Fri, Jun 03, 2011
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How can Todd Phillips and Co. up the ante? Or — if Hangover II is anything to go by — perhaps they won’t. Should they just make the same movie over again, for a third time?

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question of the day: Would you enjoy an action/comic-book movie franchise that gave us two or four small movies in a single year rather than one huge one every four years?

Thu, Jun 02, 2011
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For the estimated $125 million that was spent to produce X-Men: First Class, for instance, we could have had two $62 million movies, or four $31 million movies. Would you prefer that?

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question of the day: Does American TV portray gays and lesbians better than British TV does?

Wed, Jun 01, 2011
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Not only should I not worry about how Torchwood: Miracle Day copes with Captain Jack’s sexuality, showrunner Russell T. Davies believes American TV has teh gay better than British TV…

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question of the day: Is the biggest Memorial Day weekend ever a reboot for in-the-doldrums Hollywood, or just a blip on the radar?

Tue, May 31, 2011
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There will be no living with The Hangover Part II now: It had the biggest opening weekend ever and the second biggest ever for an R-rated film. But is this just a fluke for Hollywood in a year that’s been way down at the box office?

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question of the weekend: Atari 2600 or Commodore 64?

Sat, May 28, 2011
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Or maybe Sinclair, Amiga, Intellivision, Odyssey2, something else?

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question of the day: Is it too soon for a sitcom about an army bomb disposal squad?

Fri, May 27, 2011
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It was 20 years after the Korean War ended before CBS gave us M*A*S*H. With the Afghan war still on, the BBC wants to make us laugh about bomb-disposal soldiers…

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