July 31: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but Adam Sandler dying of some awful disease isn’t your idea of a good time. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a...
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Funny People (review)
Tears of a Clown Oh, people are gonna hate this movie. Look, the jokes are not jokes in Funny People. The humorous-sounding bits of dialogue are not intended to make you laugh so much as they are...
View Article‘Orphan’ and the generational aspects of horror
If you’ve been reading my online writings for any length of time, you may already be aware that I’m a fan of the works of William Strauss and Neil Howe, who’ve proposed a generational theory of history...
View Articletrailer break: ‘Funny People’ redband trailer
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I know I’m known as a Judd Apatow hater, and it’s true I haven’t liked most of his recent work, but I’ve always got an open mind and I always go into the next...
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What makes a movie star a movie star? (QOTW)
Film critic Stephen Witty explores the differences between movie stars and actors this weekend at NJ.com. A taste: [B]eing an actor, and being a star, are different jobs, requiring different skill...
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question of the day: What’s the most inexplicable appearance by a big star in...
Much is being made of the inexplicableness of so many major major movie stars appearing in the execrable Movie 43. Peter Howell in the Toronto Star calls it “the biggest waste of talent in cinema...
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That’s My Boy (review)
I’m “biast” (pro): nothing I’m “biast” (con): despise Sandler, and this looked even worse than his usual garbage (what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) I don’t know what I was thinking. Why...
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question of the day: What are your all-time favorite and least favorite...
Reader Anne-Kari recently suggested that we talk about Favorite and least favorite movies within specific genres (drama, b&w, scifi, comedy)? So that’s what we’ll do all this week, starting with:...
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question of the day: What do you think Hollywood movies tell the rest of the...
In the wake of the Newtown shooting, there have once again been rumblings about how violent movies (and violent video games) are perhaps partly to blame for the epidemic of mass shootings in the...
View ArticleMovie 43 (redband trailer)
This is amazing. All these huge stars… and director Peter Farrelly apparently has blackmail material on all of them! Because why else would they all have agreed to appear in a movie that believes it’s...
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Benedict Cumberbatch + Monty Python — this is real (and other adventures in...
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today: • Comic Book Illustrator Tony Harris Hates Women (Cosplayers) Professional nerd dude lashes out at women who (he thinks) are only...
View Articleit was a long four-movie day (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook and Twitter saw today: (Had a long four-movie day: two press screenings at the far ends, filled out by two multiplex movies killing time in the middle. Was barely at the...
View ArticleHere Comes the Boom (trailer)
Oh my god, they’re not even kidding with this, are they? I thought this was like Adam Sandler “parodying” The Fighter, except this is a real movie, isn’t it? For puny values of both real and movie, of...
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Ted (review)
I’m “biast” (pro): got a big ol’ soft spot for Mark Wahlberg I’m “biast” (con): with the exception of Blue Harvest, I’m not a fan of Seth MacFarlane (what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) Get...
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if R-rated movies were kids’ books (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today: • Love it. Kids’ Book Versions Of R-Rated Movies • Another one. This reporter is “award-winning.” Is there something deeply wrong about...
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Candy Land is most dreaded upcoming board-game adaptation, say readers of...
In a totally unscientific poll conducted on Facebook, the readers of FlickFilosopher.com have declared, by a wide margin, the upcoming film Candy Land as their most dreaded board-game adaptation....
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That’s My Boy (redband and greenband trailers)
This is, of course, entirely appalling just on its own, and surely a sign not only of the impending apocalypse but that humanity deserves to die in a maelstrom of hellfire and brimstone. But it’s even...
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Adam Sandler sweeps the Razzies (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today: • Another take on the “Why did they have to ‘make’ Rue black” idiots. It really is astonishing how nearly illiterate many people are. Not...
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Alex “Repo Man” Cox insists you pirate his movies (and other adventures in...
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw yesterday and today: • Pretty please… Can Someone Fix the Academy Awards? Please? Anyone? • This: “Now they want to have longer copyright...
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Jack and Jill (review)
There has always been something meanspirited about drag: men dressing in women’s clothing, as a way to make audiences of mainstream comedy laugh, has always been about holding women up for ridicule...
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