The contract covering the fine people who write the movies and TV shows you love so much expires tonight at midnight. Though the industry has been sweating a strike for a while now, Variety says it probably won’t happen for at least another week.
The writers are still steamed about the last contract they signed because they didn’t [...]
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The correct answer to contest #2 is:
Get Carter (1971), directed by Mike Hodges, starring Michael Cain.
The supernatural Sartre scores 5 points for guessing correctly after the first picture.
Frank Booth gets 4 points for answering after the second picture.
Bert and Joel score 3 points for getting it after three pictures.
I’ll be keeping a running tally of the scores [...]
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The 21st annual AFI Fest kicks off on November 1st with the North American premiere of Lions for Lambs starring Robert Redford (who also directs), Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise.
The centerpiece film is Jason Reitman’s much buzzed Juno, written by Midwestern girl turned stripper turned author turned screenwriter Diablo Cody. It stars Ellen Page (Hard [...]
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And here’s the last picture. Frankly, if you don’t recognize it by now, you probably haven’t seen the movie. Lucky for you, if you DO recognize it, you can sill submit a guess and score points after the jump.
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Image #4. Name the movie after the jump. If there are no winners, another image will be posted 10/29, sometime in the afternoon Los Angeles time.
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Here’s image #3. Once again, click through to submit a guess.
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Here’s image #2. Click through to Name that Movie…
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I’m going away for the weekend so I won’t be able to post anything substantive, but I’m going to try another contest, this time with pictures instead of audio clips. I hope this is harder than last time. Anyway, here’s the first image. See if you can tell me what movie it’s from. Unless Wordpress fails [...]
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Philip Seymour Hoffman in Sidney Lumet’s Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (Limited)
This would be a great weekend to catch up on some of the movies you’ve missed so far this season like The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Darjeeling Limited (expanding), Lars and the Real Girl (expanding) or Michael Clayton. [...]
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John Boorman’s 1967 film Point Blank begins with a bang. Two of them. Gunshots. With each shot, a title:
The target of the gunshots is a man named Walker (Lee Marvin). The shooter is Walker’s friend Mal Reese (John Vernon). Mal owes money to a shady group referred to only as “The Organization” and he’s enlisted [...]
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