I like to encourage people to watch movies in a theater, but the reality is that more and more people are doing it at home. Also, not all of the movies we talk about here play in everyone’s neighborhood. Sometimes DVD is the only chance people have to catch up on some of this stuff.
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The love for JJ Abrams approaches Whedonesque or Apatowian heights in some quarters, but LiC is not one of them. Then again, I’m a mystery-puzzle nerd so the news yesterday that Mr. Abrams would be producing a movie based on this NY Times story by Penelope Green caught my attention.
The short of it is that [...]

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I’m a sucker for lists. I really am. I can’t stay away from them, but I’m begging the AFI: please stop. Seriously.
Sure, they probably make tons of money off of this kind of thing, but they’ve long gone past the point of overkill and they’re nearing the frontier of self-parody. Pretty soon they’ll be doing the Top 10 [...]

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