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Veronica Mars trailer: will this have anything for non-fans?

Tue, Feb 25, 2014
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This trailer looks pretty generic-20something-comedy. It looks — perhaps unsurprisingly — like an for a TV show.

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this is why you’re spending more on movies these days

Sun, Jan 12, 2014
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Because the studios are being sneaky bastards…

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Koch (review)

Thu, Jan 31, 2013
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Historically compelling, journalistically rigorous, and bursting with Essence of Koch…

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furries versus bronies… because you were wondering (and other adventures in social networking)

Thu, Sep 27, 2012
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Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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celeb news of the week: leaked copy of ‘Super 8’ linked to Howard Stern Show screener

Sun, Aug 14, 2011
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Paramount won’t do anything about it, I bet. The studios rely too much on noncritic celebs to promote their films.

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Smurfbargo strangeness

Tue, Jul 19, 2011
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This will not happen: “I say, Nigel dear, that chap in the Times says The Smurfs is a jolly night out. Shall we take ourselves to the cinema this Friday?”

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the cruelest comment ever posted on the Internet

Sat, Jul 16, 2011
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I know, I know: There’s been a lot of mean, heartless shit posted by trolls and assholes on the Web, but I really do think we have a winner here…

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AOL/HuffPo shoots the messenger, fires Moviefone editor Patricia Chui over work-for-free email

Thu, Apr 07, 2011
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And the AOL/HuffPo Cinematical fiasco comes full circle in the only way it could have: with a scapegoating…

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wtf: I wasn’t looking for ‘Gandhi’ in ‘Twilight’ — were you?

Fri, Jun 25, 2010
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Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg talks to The Wall Street Journal about all the mean meanies who make her feel bad because her scripts for Twilight movies — her work includes Twilight and New Moon as well as the upcoming Eclipse — kinda suck. And not in the cool vampire way. Waaah!: “It’s tough,” Ms. Rosenberg said … more…

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wtf: who cares if ‘Toy Story 3’ is 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes?

Mon, Jun 21, 2010
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Whatever issues you may have with Rotten Tomatoes — and lots of people see lots of problems in the site in particular and in the larger notion that something as idiosyncratic as 150 film reviews can be boiled down and compressed into one metric — it’s surely easy to admit that at least some people … more…

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