Last week, MTV (AKA The Twilight Channel) reported with a straight face that Johnny Depp and Philip Seymour Hoffman were really going to be Riddler and Penguin in the next Batman movie. Their source? Michael Caine. Had Alfred been promoted from butler to casting director? Of course not. The rumor was as bogus last week [...]

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The fall season officially got underway this weekend as Joel and Ethan Coen scored bragging rights with the #1 film at the box office. Burn After Reading’s estimated $19.4 million haul is the biggest opening ever for the Oscar winning brothers.
A late summer cold and the lack of anything else compelling in theaters conspired to [...]

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John Malkovich dictates his ‘memwahs’ in Burn After Reading
They are two brothers who have a knack for combining genres and styles into hybrids that can only be described by using their last name as an adjective. Their films are set in a recognizable approximation of reality, but certain elements have been tweaked and exaggerated. Unexpected [...]

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Ethan Coen, Joel Coen and Mr. Angelina Jolie on the set of Burn After Reading
Open wide and say “Burn!”

Burn After Reading. Anyone who has read LiC for any length of time knows I’m completely in the tank for the Coen Brothers. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that I loved this movie. It’s fair to [...]

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