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DVD Review: Our Idiot Brother
by Locke Peterseim | December 1st, 2011 | Filed under: DVD Reviews, MoviesDVD Review: Despite its title and “Wow, man” tone, Our Idiot Brother is neither a Dinner for Schmucks-style mockery of morons nor a cynical Lebowski sneer at hippies. And despite its R-rating and star Paul Rudd, it’s not a bromantic raunch-com. So what is it? One of the year’s more surprisingly sweet, funny, and likable films. [...]
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First Look at Daniel Day-Lewis as Spielberg’s Lincoln
by Locke Peterseim | December 1st, 2011 | Filed under: NewsWhile Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse* are about to hit theaters in coming weeks, The Beard never rests–as we speak he’s been in Virginia for a month filming his upcoming Lincoln biopic. And now thanks to a leaked picture originally tweeted by Michael Phillips, we’ve got our first look at the [...]
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Tuesday Threes: The Answer
by Locke Peterseim | November 30th, 2011 | Filed under: Quizzes, Contests & Polls, ThreesI asked you guys what actor was in the original Happy Feet, Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige, and this year’s X-Men: First Class (available from Redbox on DVD and Blu-ray), and out of the 56 folks who took a guess, 55 of you got it right. But getting it right first was… hang on, while I put in [...]
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Interview: Beginners Director Mike Mills
by Locke Peterseim | November 30th, 2011 | Filed under: DVD Reviews, Interviews, MoviesIn the early 2000s, the mother of writer-director Mike Mills (Thumbsucker) passed away, and soon after her death, Mills’ 75-year-old father came out as a homosexual. A few years later, even as Mills adjusted to his father’s new lifestyle, the older man was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Mills has taken his own life experience with [...]
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Movie Trivia: Your Tuesday Threes
by Locke Peterseim | November 29th, 2011 | Filed under: Quizzes, Contests & Polls, ThreesHello Tuesday, hello readers, and hello Threes! Here’s how it goes: 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’ll find yourself with the homemade construction-paper medal! (Just as soon as [...]
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DVD Review: Crazy, Stupid, Love.
by Locke Peterseim | November 29th, 2011 | Filed under: DVD Reviews, MoviesDVD Review: This delightful tale of sexy people (and Steve Carell) has as much to do with real-life relationships as Horrible Bosses does with workplace issues. But because its terrific actors handling the script’s increasingly unlikely events with great humor and charm, Crazy, Stupid, Love ends up one of the year’s most entertaining rom-coms (or brom-coms). The following is a reprint [...]
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Locke’s Redbox Picks of the Week
by Locke Peterseim | November 28th, 2011 | Filed under: DVD Reviews, Movie Lists, Movies, Weekly redbox PicksRecommended Smaller, Overlooked, or Underrated Movies in the Redbox Kiosks – A Better Life Director Chris Weitz (About a Boy, The Twilight Saga: New Moon) and writer Eric Eason combine father-son melodrama and a crime-solving mystery quest in this story of an illegal immigrant single father (Demián Bichir) struggling to make–yes–a better life for his teenage [...]
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British Director Ken Russell, 1927-2011
by Locke Peterseim | November 28th, 2011 | Filed under: Movies, NewsBritish director Ken Russell passed away this weekend after a series of strokes. He was 84. Younger film-goers might not immediately recognize Russell’s name, but during the 1970s he was one of the leaders of the British film revolution. His terrific early films—an adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s Women in Love (1969) starring Alan Bates, Oliver Reed and [...]
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Hi-Ho! The Muppets Put on a Good Show, but Can’t Top the Vamps
by Locke Peterseim | November 27th, 2011 | Filed under: Box Office News, News1) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn—Part 1 — 3-day: $42 million / 5-day: $62.3 million Though it tumbled 70% from its opening weekend (a common trend among the Twilight films), Breaking Dawn still hung on to the holiday top spot at the box office. In just 10 days, the film (which cost $110 million to make) [...]
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Five-Q Review: Arthur Christmas
by Locke Peterseim | November 27th, 2011 | Filed under: Movies, Theatrical ReviewsTheatrical Review: In the cinematic holiday battle between high-tech gimcrackery and heartfelt tradition, the delightfully funny, and veddy British Arthur Christmas gets to have its milk and cookies (and super-spaceship mega-sleigh) and eat ‘em, too. That makes it one of the best new holiday films of recent years. – 1) Is This One of Those Behind-the-Scenes Look [...]
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