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Movie ads vs. movie truth
If you didn’t already know that the gentleman played by Colin Firth in the excellent new movie A Single Man is single because (no spoiler, I promise) his male lover has died, you’ll never know by...
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Lisa Schwarzbaum's 10 best movies of the decade
It’s almost New Year’s Eve. I’m ready. Let’s party! 1. There Will Be Blood (2007), Paul Thomas Anderson. The entire decade, summed up in a singular American masterpiece. 2. Sideways (2004), Alexander...
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Eric Rohmer, French New Wave master of adult conversation
The great French filmmaker Eric Rohmer, who died today in Paris at the age of 89, made more than 50 movies, most of them about people for whom talk was life, as natural and necessary an activity as...
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Movies starring real people vs. movies starring pixel people: the eyes have it
I haven’t written anything on this site about Avatar, for good reasons For one thing, I second everything Owen said in his fine review. And for another, I think that between Entertainment Weekly and...
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Valentine's Day: Does big box office equal love?
Hey, how was your Valentine’s Day? Did it make you feel like $52.4 million bucks? That’s this morning’s estimated box-office tally for the movie Valentine’s Day, and that’s before adding in the...
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Kathryn Bigelow: If she wins the Oscar for directing, does that mean it's...
A TV producer interviewed me on camera today for a pre-Oscar story he’s whipping up to run over the weekend. He was very excited. “I mean, Kathryn Bigelow!” he explained. “Meryl Streep! Sandra Bullock!...
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Mel Gibson: Despicable he, but will his behavior keep you from buying a...
A second purported audiotape has emerged in which Mel Gibson heaps disgusting verbal abuse and threats on the ex-girlfriend who is the mother of his baby daughter. You’re on your own if you want to...
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Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston: DVD gift suggestions on the occasion of...
You know how colleagues or teammates or the whole office chip in to celebrate a friend’s big news? Here’s an opportunity to provide young parents and on-again sweethearts Bristol Palin and Levi...
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'Avatar' special edition: I hate special editions. Director's cuts, too.
This item has nothing to do with Mel Gibson. It has something to do with Avatar, but only tangentially, since I’ve had a confession to make ever since I read, a few days ago, that James Cameron and Fox...
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'Inception,' that ending, and where critics go wrong
Here’s something cool coming off the first weekend of Inception: Excited moviegoers are spending a lot of time talking about Huh? and Wow! and What’s up with that ending? Here’s something less cool:...
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Black Women Historians come out against ‘The Help’
The Association of Black Women Historians released a statement today, urging fans of both the best-selling novel and the new movie The Help to reconsider the popular tale of African American maids in...
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‘Contagion’ ticket sales strong, despite 9/11 anniversary
It might seem strange that Warner Bros. decided to release Contagion, a film that chronicles the outbreak of a worldwide pandemic, on the same weekend as the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Understandably,...
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