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That’s two big dragon heads up
The 1988 fantasy adventure Willow is nowhere close to being a good film, but this Behind the Scenes Photo feature at Ain’t It Cool News reminded me of its most distinctive feature: its anti-movi… more →
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That's two big dragon heads up
wrote 2 months ago: The 1988 fantasy adventure Willow is nowhere close to being a good film, but this Behind the Scenes … more →
Roger Ebert
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wrote 2 months ago: Roger Ebert may not have set out to become the world’s number one film critic, but circumstanc … more →
David Letterman is happy this morning
wrote 3 months ago: I didn’t watch all of last night’s Oscar broadcast, but I did watch enough of it to conc … more →
The Parker files
wrote 4 months ago: Blunt dialogue, lean action, minimal exposition . . . you’d think the Parker novels would be n … more →
The future ain't what it used to be
wrote 4 months ago: Actually, the predictions aren’t as far off the mark as you might think. … more →
Tempus fuhgeddaboudit
wrote 4 months ago: All fiction is historical fiction. That’s hardly a piercing insight — even if all topica … more →
Fanboy fiddles
wrote 4 months ago: The rules of film publicity went out the window in the late Nineties when fanboy websites like Ain … more →
Robert F. Chew
wrote 4 months ago: Robert F. Chew, the Baltimore-born actor and teacher, just died of heart failure at the very prematu … more →
I got your Oscars right here
wrote 5 months ago: Back in the 1980s, the hilarious British puppet show Spitting Image tried to establish a beachhead i … more →
Piety pimps
wrote 5 months ago: This morning, the twinkies on the Today show leavened their standard mix of blather — vapid an … more →
My movie year
wrote 5 months ago: Since most of my reading in 2012 was work-related, I can’t talk about most of the books publis … more →
Back, and there again
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wrote 5 months ago: “I feel thin, like butter scraped across too much bread.” That line, and the way Ian Hol … more →
Hobbitunes
wrote 7 months ago: Howard Shore’s extraordinary music was a big part of why I fell hard for all three Lord of the … more →
'Girl' talk
wrote 7 months ago: It’s hard to imagine anyone other than a hardcore movie buff getting much out of The Girl, the … more →
Look what your brother did to the door
wrote 7 months ago: Here’s a Halloween thought for the day: John Larroquette, prior to becoming an Emmy-winning te … more →
Meeting on the fringe
wrote 8 months ago: Apropos of yesterday’s review of The Master, here’s an out-of-the-blue New Republic arti … more →
Reasons to believe
wrote 8 months ago: Though it arrives after a five-year interval, Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film The Master plays … more →
So much for that idea
wrote 8 months ago: I knew John Boorman was one of the parade of filmmakers who took a run at adapting The Lord of the R … more →
The last big thing
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wrote 8 months ago: When the first of three films based on The Hobbit opens in about two months, a certain number of the … more →
