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Game of Links
Catching up on news & noteworthy we didn't cover the past couple of days... BrangelinaVanity Fair the details of the Brangelina marriage that we know. I'm really so happy for them as a longtime fan...
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UHF (1989) - Let's Get Weird
Hello all, Margaret here to ask: in our Year of the Month, 1989, did anyone guess what cultural endurance "Weird Al" Yankovic would have? By all rights he should have faded into obscurity after his...
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Review: Robin Wright at "The Congress"
Amir is here with your second review of the weekend... The Congress, Ari Folman’s follow-up to his brilliant debut feature, the animated documentary Waltz with Bashir, starts rather normally. The...
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Yes, No, Maybe So: Jon Stewart's Rosewater
Amir here, anxiously over-analyzing the trailer for Jon Stewart’s directorial debut. Rosewater tells the story of Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian journalist who was arrested following the Green...
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Beauty Break: Stars in Chains
I was all prepared to write a short and snappy post about Historical Inaccuracies via Hot Bodies when I saw Adrien Brody buffed and chained for Houdini. Only then I looked at photos of the actual...
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Yes No Maybe So: "The Rewrite"
Hugh Grant returns to the romantic comedy genre in "The Rewrite". Here's Matthew Eng to break it down for us in our Yes No Maybe So way YES • Marisa Tomei• Marisa Tomei• Marisa Tomei• Let me say it...
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Smackdown 1989: Anjelica, Brenda, Dianne, Lena, and Julia Roberts
Presenting the Nominated Supporting Actresses of 1989. Motherhood was the loose theme of the shortlist with a determined mom (Brenda Fricker) facing off against a determined-to-be-a-mom bride (Julia...
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Beauty vs Beast: Sister City, Sister Bumpkin
JA from MNPP here with today's very special Labor Day edition of our "Beauty vs Beast" series. Whether you're employed crunching numbers and dodging bitchy CEOs in the big city offices of Moramax or...
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Curio: Lily Tomlin, Movie Fan
Alexa here. To celebrate Lily Tomlin's 75th birthday I dug up this 1983 issue of the ill-fated "The Movies" magazine from my collection. In it, Tomlin shares her film memories, especially those during...
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Summer (lovin') happened so fast
Hello all, Manuel here wishing you all a great “back to school!” week with some choice words from your favorite singing and dancing adults-playing-teens. I've had the best summer of my life and now I...
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A Brief Celebration of Lily Tomlin in "Nashville"
Here's Andrew with one more Lily Tomlin tribute. Yes, yes, we got a little carried away for her 75th what with polls and memorabilia and now this. But that's because there's just so much to love and...
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50 Appropriate Ways to Celebrate Keanu Reeves Birthday!
In honor of Keanu Reeves' half-century mark today, 50 appropriate ways to celebrate the day. Please report back with the number you plan to accomplish today. Party on dudes! 01 Become a "cool breeze...
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Iceland, Norway, and Foreign Chart Updates
We travel now overseas to two of my all-time favorite places on Earth. I lived in Norway many years ago (and went back for the first time just last summer for my birthday). And Iceland is just about my...
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Best Shot Season Finale: The Matrix (1999)
I'm not proud to say so but I'd probably take the blue pill. BEST SHOT It's not that I reject reality so much as that I keep misplacing it. It's easy to forget about it you're drawn to the fantasy. My...
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Back to School. Tips from "Matilda"
Hello all, Margaret here celebrating another day of "back to school" week. I'm sure there are plenty mourning the end of their summer, but I know I can't be the only one who feels a thrill of...
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Podcast Pt 1: Smackdown Companions & Left Feet: A Love Story
As a companion piece to the Supporting Actress Smackdown, we recorded a companion podcast. In the first half we talk misleading movie posters, Oscar campaigns, the outcome of the smackdown, Jim...
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Podcast Pt 2: Steel Magnolias, Parenthood, and Movie Memories
Did you listen to part one and read the smackdown? (If not, do both first.) In the second half of our Smackdown 1989 companion conversation we discuss the 'regular family' subgenre in movies and...
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Off to TIFF: Nathaniel's Journey Begins
For the curious among you this is my very tentative list of films on my very jam-packed schedule at TIFF. This will be the 10th anniversary of my very first trip to TIFF from which my fondest memory...
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A Year with Kate: The Lion in Winter (1968)
Episode 36 of 52: In which if there’s only one Katharine Hepburn film you see, make it this one. When you take Screenwriting 101, your first lesson is the Three Act Story Structure. Act 1:...
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The Three R's with Cameron Diaz in 'Bad Teacher'
Rudeness. Raciness. No Respect. Glenn here to help you guys ease back into the school year with the help of Cameron Diaz as Miss Halsey in Bad Teacher. Lord know we could have all used a teacher like...
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