Archive · 2006

January 2006

210 posts

DAILY GRABOID 1.27.06

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What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid… Continue reading →

BAUMBACH'S BACK!

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It looks like me placing The Squid and The Whale at the top of my Best of 2005 list really worked out for writer/director Noah Baumbach – he’s got a new dramedy in the works at Paramount Classics and it will star Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Leigh… Continue reading →

ONE DOG OF A MOVIE

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I was in the bookstore a few weeks back and a copy of Marley & Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog caught my eye. It’s a book by Philadelphia Inquirer columnist John Grogan, about his dog Marley, a Labrador retriever who was very poorly behaved. I… Continue reading →

REVIEW: BUBBLE

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The strangest thing about Steven Soderbergh’s Bubble isn’t that it was shot on a shoestring budget with non-actors in all the roles, or that it’s being released essentially simultaneously in theaters, on cable and on DVD. It’s that what begins as a meditation… Continue reading →

REVIEW: ANNAPOLIS

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Annapolis is the perfect movie for someone who has never before seen one. The film is aggressive in its attempt to hit as many clichés as possible in its running time, while shamelessly cribbing – and occasionally flat out ripping off – other, better movies.… Continue reading →

ZOOEY HAS CLASS

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Sweet thing Zooey Deschanel will bring her incalculable adorability and mushmouth delivery to the front of the classroom for Bridge to Terabithia, Disney’s adventure flick based on author Katherine Paterson’s award-winning children’s book. The story follows a… Continue reading →