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It looks like the kids won’t get to see Fahrenheit 9/11 without some adult supervision. Backers of documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 failed to overturn its R rating on Tuesday, restricting young American moviegoers from seeing its critical look at President Bush and horrific images of the war in Iraq. I don’t need to rant on thisContinue reading “THE REQUISITE FAHRENHEIT 9/11-OPENS-TODAY-BUT-IS-TOO-HOT-FOR-TEENS POST”

Deeply buried (if mentioned at all) in all the stories focusing on Dodgeball‘s trouncing of The Terminal in the weekend box office race was the even more delightful news that The Passion of the Christ can no longer claim to be the top grossing movie of 2004. It just so happens that our big greenContinue reading “MISCELLANEOUS MISCELLANY: THE PASSION OF THE OGRE”

I read two different sequel-related reports today (one which I had heard weeks if not months ago, but apparently it’s news again). In the best-case scenarios, they could both be phenomenal films. Thinking more realistically, they’ll suck and simply lessen how people think of the originals, much as has happened in some sense to TheContinue reading “THE BEST POTENTIALLY BAD NEWS”

I can rant on-and-on about A.O. Scott’s pathetic writing and never encapsulate how poor a critic he actually is as well as TMFTML does right here. Oh no … he doesn’t need my blogfucking, but it’s worth clicking the link. Using the beginning of Scott’s review of The Terminal, he succinctly proves what I’ve beenContinue reading “IF ONLY HE WERE THE PERMANENT CHIEF FILM CRITIC FOR THE TIMES“

I often don’t go to opening weekends of big wide-release movies. I like a crowded movie theater, but I hate having to get there extra-early, possibly getting crap seats, etc. But this weekend, I actually happened to go to all three new major release movies, and I’m very happy to say that the finish lineContinue reading “WEEKEND WRAP-UP: NOW IF TOM HANKS PLAYED DODGEBALL WHILE BEN STILLER CHASED JACKIE CHAN AROUND THE WORLD, THAT WOULD BE A MOVIE”

In other news, Forbes magazine has announced its top-100 most powerful celebrities. Apparently, this is their fourth annual list, but I had never heard of it before. According to the Forbes web site, their methodology for creating the list is as follows: Start with money. Add fame. Mix. We rank the relative star power ofContinue reading “THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU”

For those of you in New York who just can’t wait one day longer than you absolute necessary to catch Fahrenheit 9/11, Lions Gate and IFC announced that the film will open at two theaters (the Lincoln Plaza on the UWS and the Loews on 3rd & 11th in the EV) on next Wednesday 6/23Continue reading “IT’S GETTIN’ HOT IN HERE”

Sorry for the lack of posts the past couple days. I’ve been suffering a slight crisis of inspiration, or at least motivation. Although, this little movie helped chipper me up, so who knows what will come now.

How about playing a little game? Name the person who said the following: “As a candidate for any office, whether it be the state attorney general or the president, Bill Clinton showed incredible energy and great personal appeal. As chief executive, he showed a deep and far-ranging knowledge of public policy, a great compassion forContinue reading “WHO SAID THIS?”

Now that Wolfgang Petersen has satisfactorily abused an ancient canonical work such as Homer’s The Iliad with his destruction of Troy, he’s apparently set his sights on kicking around a more recent film classic. Petersen with the support of Warner Bros. is planning to remake the 1968 “crime caper” Bullitt. Bullitt was one of screen-legendContinue reading “MORE FROM THE “COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY” FILES: THE STEVE-McQUEEN-ROLLS-OVER-IN-HIS-GRAVE EDITION”