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‘Burn After Reading’ Poster

This one requires no comment from me. Click to enlarge.
Source: Cinematical (who were kind enough not to crap it up with a watermark)

Spike Lee: Less Face Shutting, More Time Traveling

Next up for Spike Lee is Time Traveler which he plans to co-write and direct from a memoir by Ronald Mallett, one of the first African-American Ph.Ds in theoretical physics.
Co-written with Bruce Henderson, Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality traces Mallett’s life story from poverty to Ph.D. and of [...]

Cyd Charisse, Dancer: 1921 – 2008

Dancer, actress, movie star Cyd Charisse died in Los Angeles today after apparently suffering a heart attack on Monday.
I didn’t really grow to love movie musicals until later in life, so my first real memory of her was in college. A couple of friends and I drove up to catch an all night screening of [...]

Review: Bigger, Stronger, Faster (2008) ****

 
I was a scrawny kid growing up, but I never idolized the muscle-bound types. Bodybuilding was always a bore, I hated the He-Man cartoon, I didn’t worship Arnold Schwartzenegger or Sylvester Stallone and I never took professional wrestling seriously. Ordinarily I wouldn’t be interested in a documentary about three Hulk Hogan idolizing boys from New [...]

Raimi Follows Eastwood, Scorsese and Affleck to Boston

I haven’t seen a movie based on a Dennis Lehane novel yet that I really liked, but they just keep coming. Clint Eastwood directed Mystic River, Ben Affleck did Gone Baby Gone, Martin Scorsese is working on Shutter Island and now Sam Raimi joins the fray with The Given Day, to be published September 23.
Lehane [...]