Archive for October, 2009
Saturday Night Drive-in: 100 Feet
by Locke Peterseim | October 31st, 2009 | Filed under: DVD ReviewsSadly, the 100 Feet in the title does not refer to mysterious severed limbs washing up on the shores of British Columbia. No, it’s the distance Famke Janssen’s character Marnie can amble from her home before her ankle alarm goes off. See, a few years ago Marnie put an end to her husband’s abuse by [...]
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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
by Locke Peterseim | October 31st, 2009 | Filed under: DVD Reviews[THE FOLLOWING IS A REPRINT OF REDBLOG'S REVIEW OF ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS DURING ITS THEATRICAL RELEASE LAST SUMMER. ICE AGE: DOTD IS NOW ON DVD AND AVAILABLE FOR RENTAL IN THE REDBOXES.] I admit I never gave much thought to the Ice Age movies—I dimly recall seeing the first one, skipped the [...]
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What Men and Boys and Chippendales Dancers Want?
by Locke Peterseim | October 30th, 2009 | Filed under: NewsLast week New Line announced a pitch for a new Selena Gomez project called What Boys Want, about a teenage girl who can hear what Mel Gibson is thinking. (SPOILER! It ain't pretty!) Well, no, actually Mel isn't involved. The movie instead will take the premise of Gibson's 2000 What Women Want, flip it, and [...]
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Freeze Frame
by Erika Olson | October 30th, 2009 | Filed under: ThreesI promised easy, I'm giving you easy. For those of you who are new to our weekly Freeze Frame challenge, all you have to do is take a look-see at the three stills below, and then — via the comments link at the end of this post — enter in your guesses as to what [...]
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Thursday Threes: The Answer
by Locke Peterseim | October 30th, 2009 | Filed under: ThreesAh, yesterday’s Threes might have been teed up a bit too high–whole bunches of you clobbered it. But the fastest clobbering was done by Threes Champion Donna, first with the correct answer and scooping up yet another homemade construction-paper medal to add to what is now, I would guess, a fairly unmanageable pile! Congrats, Donna, [...]
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by James Rocchi | October 30th, 2009 | Filed under: UncategorizedWinter may be larded and filled with Oscar contenders, to be sure, but Hollywood — knowing that a little desert makes the broccoli go down — has made sure to fill the winter Oscar-qualifying and Oscar-waiting season with a few comedies to break up the drama and depression. There's plenty of funny stuff if you [...]
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by Locke Peterseim | October 29th, 2009 | Filed under: ThreesHowdy, Thursday evening! Let's play the Threes! I give you three films, you tell me what single actor was in all three of them. Enter your guess in the comments section directly below this post, and if you are the first with the correct answer you score the homemade construction-paper medal! Right after you make [...]
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Can You Be a Better Transformer?Improve Your Giant Smashin’ Robot Movie with This Cosmo redblog Quiz!
by Locke Peterseim | October 29th, 2009 | Filed under: Other BitsSo you think you're a pretty good Transformers movie? You made more than $400 million at the box office in America alone, you're stompin' all over the DVD charts. You're looking good and doin' fine. But are you really the best Giant Smashin' Robot Movie you can be? Are you giving your viewers everything they [...]
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by Locke Peterseim | October 29th, 2009 | Filed under: Other BitsNow that's more like it! I think I really found the sweet spot this week–about 20 of you guessed and about a third of you got it right. And lots of fun guesses. In fact just as many people incorrectly guessed The Abyss as named the right film. Meanwhile, some of those who did get [...]
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redblog Readers Who Rock: Jason (aka “Fiirvoen”)
by Erika Olson | October 29th, 2009 | Filed under: Readers Who RockToday I am très excited to introduce one of our most loyal redblog readers, commenters and Threes players: Jason/Fiirvoen. Read on to learn the story behind his most unusual handle… Name: Jason Clark Posts as (username): I started out posting as Jason, but then switched to the handle I’ve been using online for the last [...]
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