Sony

2012 (review)

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It’s kind of awesome, the film’s self-involvement. This isn’t really a movie: it’s more director/FX-mad wannabe supervillain Roland Emmerich calling out every other disaster film that has ever come before… including his own. Aliens blowing up the Empire State Builder? What piker came up with that?

question of the weekend: What’s your favorite Halloween candy?

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I’m not talking about the fancy stuff: your boxes of Godiva, your Leonidas, your Lindt truffles. I’m talking about the kind of cheap sweets that get thrown into treat-or-treat goodie bags: What’s your favorite Halloween candy? I never liked anything that wasn’t chocolate. Candy corn? Disgusting. Bit-O-Honey? Yuck. I never liked all the chocolates either, … more…

my week at the movies: ‘Gentlemen Broncos,’ ‘Michael Jackson’s This Is It,’ ‘Creation,’ ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox,’ ‘The Fourth Kind,’ ‘Pirate Radio’ (aka ‘The Boat That Rocked’), ‘Collapse’

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Busy, busy week. And awards season hasn’t quite hit yet (though screeners are starting to come). It’s gonna be a crazy couple months… Most hilarious title ever? Gentlemen Broncos (opens in the U.S. on October 30; no U.K. release date has been announced) looks to be a hoot… and I do really like Jared Hess’s … more…