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Just Go with It (review)
The Comedy of Moral Hazard No. No, I’m not going to just go with it. The title alone of this latest atrocity in the oeuvre of Adam Sandler, Professional Manchild, is an admission that it is absurd on...
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The Guardian’s headline about the marriage of two movie stars somehow elevates it above the level of mere gossip and turns it into something nearly shocking: Rachel Weisz marries Daniel Craig in secret...
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Jack and Jill (trailer)
Wow. I didn’t think Adam Sandler could sink any lower. But he has. How does “She isn’t shy” translate into “Flinging a shoe into Granny’s face at high speed”? What is fresh or funny about making fun...
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question of the day: Has Hollywood abandoned young men?
This was the startling conclusion of Daniel Frankel at TheWrap after this weekend’s box office results: No one is thinking of the menz! The strong showing of “Immortals” and “Jack and Jill” this...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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...
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...
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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 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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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...
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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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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’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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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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