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"Knocked Up"

June 10, 2007

Strange as it may seem, considering what I do for a living, the bride and I went to a movie this afternoon. And one question immediately comes up: Why wasn't Linda Cardellini the female lead?

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Paul Newman Hangs It Up

May 26, 2007

The Ohio-born actor has said he's through with acting, according to this report.

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"Spider-Man 3" (Slightly Updated)

April 30, 2007

Yes, I've seen it. Some notes (and possible spoilers) follow…

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How Did I Forget "Major League"? (And Forget That I Had Remembered It?)

April 5, 2007

Not long ago, I had a post about the great sports movies, both someone else's list and some movies I thought should have been included. And somehow, to my great shame, I didn't think about "Major League." Someone else mentioned it in a comment on that post — but I had even forgotten that when [...]

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What, No "North Dallas Forty"?

March 29, 2007

A few complaints about a list of the 25 greatest sports movies, after the jump …

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"Blades of Glory"

March 27, 2007

In praise of a very stupid movie, after the jump …

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A Few Minutes With Halle Berry and a Cast of Hundreds

March 23, 2007

Halle's from Cleveland and maintains ties to the area. So she brought her latest movie, Perfect Stranger, to town for a preview screening on Thursday. And that barely describes the fun …

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More "300"

March 9, 2007

My review in today's Beacon Journal is here.
I went back and forth quite a bit while writing it, mostly because I was concerned that I was giving too much credit to a movie that was aimed at me, or at least aimed at me when I pretend I am about 30 years younger.

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Great Newspaper Movies

March 5, 2007

Over the weekend I caught a little bit of "Teacher's Pet," the 1958 comedy starring Clark Gable as a hard-bitten newspaper editor and Doris Day as a journalism teacher. I've always been kind of fond of it and even as a kid I learned a journalism lesson that can still hold — the one about [...]

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Oscar Night

February 25, 2007

DISASTER. Something ate almost all my first 3 hours of blogging, and now I have to file. I'll try to reconstruct some notes later.

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Nikki Finke Is Giving Me a Headache

February 23, 2007

And its name is Oscar. Possible Sunday-night spoilers, after the jump …

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Movies for the AARP Crowd?

January 26, 2007

No mockery here. We're talking about movies that have won kudos from AARP. Here's the press release:
AARP The Magazine, the world’s largest circulation magazine, today announced the winners of its sixth annual Movies for Grownups Awards. From Best Movie to Breakaway Accomplishment to Best Actor and Actress, AARP The Magazine’s Movies for Grownups Awards [...]

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Good Morning, Oscar

January 23, 2007

For years I've been talking about the Chamber of Commerce theory of entertainment awards. Basically it says that organizations issue awards based on what they think makes them look good — socially responsible, politically aware, far-ranging — instead of what actually is good. Of course, other factors can also come into play, among them [...]

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"Infernal Affairs/The Departed"

October 9, 2006

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I saw "The Departed" recently after watching its Hong Kong predecessor "Infernal Affairs." And, in another step toward writing more about movies, I filed a piece for the Beacon Journal about the two, which you can find here.
That wasn't a review of either movie, since George Thomas reviewed [...]

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