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Here are two comedies I saw a while ago and just haven’t bothered to review until now. Both were fairly well-received by most critics, although Pineapple was considerably more divisive. It is sustained by the performance of James Franco, whose Saul Silver is basically the guy you knew in high school who everybody in your [...]
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Starring Sean Penn, James Franco, Emile Hirsch and Josh Brolin. Directed by Gus Van Sant. Written by Lance Black. Produced by Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen. Released by Focus Features. One of the most remarkable things about Milk is how little controversy has surrounded it. Just three years ago, the release of Brokeback Mountain was [...]
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Tom Cruise returned to the Today Show, er, today, to promote his new film, Valkyrie. Matt Lauer started the interview off right by recollecting back to three years ago, when Cruise — promoting War of the Worlds – declared Matt Lauer to be “glib” when he disagreed with Cruise on psychiatry and modern science, a [...]
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A while back, at the beginning of the fall television schedule, I mentioned my struggle to keep up with all the good shows that were airing: Dexter, Entourage, 30 Rock, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Californication – the list goes on. The funny thing is, I never watched TV — at all, really — until [...]
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I haven’t had time, nor seen enough of this year’s contenders, to make a Best of 2008 list for films. Frankly, I don’t really want to. These lists bore me. So, instead, why not focus on the Best Bad Movie of 2008? A movie so confoundingly crappy that it skips right over being abysmal and [...]
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