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Green For Green: Weekend Box Office
Amir here, with the weekend’s box office report. Forecasts were uncertain whether Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles still had the appeal to take the multiplex by storm. The turtles are as popular as ever,...
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Liz whips her hair back and forth...
she whips her hair back and forth Don't forget. Tomorrow night is Hit Me With Your Best Shot: SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER (1959). You don't want to miss this gonzo all-star Tennessee Williams so watch it in...
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Robin Williams (1951-2014)
Robin Williams winning the Oscar for Good Will Hunting (1997)Robin Williams, Mork himself and Mrs Doubtfire... the clown, the blue genie, the Oscar winner, the charitable celebrity died Monday at 63....
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Curio: Jason Bryant's Skater Film Stills
Alexa here with your weekly art appreciation. Like many, movies were a way for Jason Bryant to escape the difficulties of childhood. Growing up in rural North Carolina, he loved to draw; as he got...
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Foreign Film Oscar Watch: The Ophir Nominations
Israeli's Oscar equivalent, The Ophirs, announced their nominations yesterday and here are the Best Picture nominees, courtesy of friend of TFE Yonatan. One of these six films will surely be submitted...
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Beauty vs Beast: All About the Blonde
JA from MNPP here. At this point it feels more than a little cliche to call Alfred Hitchcock your favorite film-maker. Tomorrow is his 115th birthday and it feels like we've spent at least double that...
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Elizabeth Taylor in "Suddenly Last Summer". Oh how that star burned.
This is an episode of Hit Me With Your Best Shot "Suddenly... last summer" is spoken so often in Suddenly Last Summer (1959), Joseph L Mankiewicz & Gore Vidal's adaptation of Tennessee Williams...
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Visual Index ~ Suddenly Last Summer (1959)
This week's Hit Me With Your Best Shot episode is devoted to the film adaptation of Tennessee William's Suddenly Last Summer (1959) in which a brain surgeon (Montgomery Clift) whose hospital is in...
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Lauren Bacall (1924-2014)
Lauren Bacall receiving her Honorary OscarShe arrived on the scene fully formed, the most womanly, not girlish, teenager you ever did see. In truth Lauren Bacall was newly 20 when To Have and Have Not...
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Say What, Arnold & Abigail
Amuse us by adding dialogue or a caption to this image of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Abigail Breslin in the forthcoming zombie movie Maggie which will apparently premiere at TIFF The winner will pick...
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A Year with Kate: Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
Episode 33 of 52: In which Katharine Hepburn is like the Goddess from the Machine. I want to write about Katharine Hepburn, but the movie keeps getting in the way! Reading last night’s contributions to...
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Podcast: Boyhood & Lucy
The gangs back together! It's a Joe, Nick, Katey & Nathaniel reunion. We rarely get all four of us together anymore but this week we're discussing Luc Besson's Lucy and Richard Linklater's Boyhood,...
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Gone With The Summer
Hattie is judging you. Stop with your fiddle-dees and choose a 'BEST SHOT' alreadyI'm like one of those horrible teachers that gives you endless homework. But I hope in the end when you graduate you'll...
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Oscar Rumblings, Song Cuttings, Record Breakings
don't cry Meryl, you've got plenty of songs to sing already!No sooner do we get the Oscar charts updated than everything changes. We are Sisyphus! I was thrilled to have a new Stephen Sondheim song to...
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An Epic Link Roundup
We haven't gathered links in a few days so we're way behind on news and such. Here's a few handfuls for ya... Must ReadThe Wire David Sims measures the cast of Expendables 3 by every conceivable...
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Stage Door: "King Lear" in the Park
Shakespeare in the Park shutters for another year this Sunday August 17th, so you only have a couple more chances to see King Lear. I can't claim that King Lear is one of my favorite plays and as far...
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Tim's Toons: Remembering Williams & Bacall in animation
Tim here. In case you’re just tuning in, it’s been a brutal week for celebrity deaths (and in the world at large, but let’s not start getting into that or I’ll be too depressed to function). Nathaniel...
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Nicole's Return. The Dates Are Ever Changing.
When will our beloved Kidman return to us? For someone who works so consistently, doesn't it seem like it's hard to find Nicole Kidman in a movie theater? Grace of Monaco keeps threatening to arrive...
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Review: The Giver
Hey, folks. Michael Cusumano here fresh from having Jeff Bridges impart the wonders of humanity directly into my brain. It’s an amusing irony that Phillip Noyce’s film of Lois Lowry’s beloved...
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