“I’m not sad. The corset just cut off the blood supply to
my head and I can’t move the muscles of my face.”
Last weekend I sat down to tap out the Movies You May Have Missed column and I swear there was absolutely nothing worth mentioning. I figured a day or two before Christmas was a [...]

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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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Summer Bishil and Aaron Eckhart in Towelhead
My hatred of Towelhead set in early and I never shook it. I think it was the scene at the airport where Maria Bello’s Bad Mother character is shipping poor confused daughter Jasira (Summer Bishil) off to live with her Lebanese father in Houston after the Creepy Live-In Boyfriend [...]

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Summer Bishil in Alan Ball’s Towelhead
The worst box office weekend in 7 years, got off to a shaky start here at LiC. Though things rallied on Saturday, let’s start off this week’s Watercooler with the bad news: an early screening of screenwriter Alan (American Beauty, HBO’s Six Feet Under) Ball’s directorial debut.
Take a moldy dog turd [...]

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Following an Islamic civil rights group’s call for a name change of Alan Ball’s upcoming Towelhead, Warner Bros.’ initial response could be paraphrased as something like “ummm…no.”
Yesterday, Alicia Erian, the Arab-American author of the source novel defended the title.
“As an Arab-American woman, I am of course aware that the title of my book is an [...]

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“An Islamic civil rights and advocacy group has asked Warner Bros. to change the title of its upcoming film Towelhead, saying ‘the word is commonly used in a derogatory manner against people of the Muslim faith or Arab origin.’ ”
This doesn’t really need a comment from me, does it?
Source: THR

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George Clooney and Frances McDormand in Burn After Reading
You can almost hear the air being let out of the summer movie season. Overall it was a pretty decent four months of movies, but I for one am glad to see it coming to an end. Now it’s time to look forward to the last third [...]

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