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Un-x-cited over X Files

Another movie revival we didn’t ask for and didn’t need. Awesome!

Netflix down! Netflix down!

Uh, the Netflix site is down.

Juno? Ju Not.

La-la-la-la-la. I can’t hear you.

Inflated sense of self-importance, take one

CNN Entertainment Producer Matt Carey:
The Sundance Film Festival hasn’t been pleased with reporters asking questions about Ledger. When we came to the premiere of “Death in Love” Tuesday evening, a Sundance press officer threatened to revoke our credentials if we asked any questions about the late actor. She said we were there only to ask [...]

This movie makes me sick!

Some theatergoers complain of nausea induced by jittercam filming schtick employed in monster movie Cloverfield.

The head hobbit returns

There and (wait for it) back again
It probably shouldn’t please me as much as it does that Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have resolved their legal differences and that the director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy will return to Middle-Earth as executive producer of The Hobbit …but I am indeed pleased. Very [...]

Cloverfield: From “what?” to “wev” in ten minutes flat

Yawn
In a cultural sense, I am almost always Late to the Party, whatever and wherever the Party might be. Example: Because I never saw Transformers, I never saw the trailers that accompanied the movie’s theatrical release. As a result, I was completely unaware of the mysterious teaser for some Untitled J.J. Abrams Project that launched [...]

Spartacus

I mean no slight to the storied career of Kirk Douglas when I say that Spartacus works best when he doesn’t talk…excepting, of course, the moment in which he tells Tony Curtis to go to sleep.

From Bee to Zzzzzzz

How is it possible that I have been dead-friggin’-tired of this movie for months now, when it hasn’t even been released?
Seriously, I’d like to know, because I really am sick of it.

Ingmar Bergman

I saw Fanny and Alexander once. I didn’t get it. Of course, Wikipedia wasn’t around then.
Anyway, the director responsible for my confusion has passed away at 89.