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Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels Blu-ray Review
2 December 2009 8:01 PM, PST
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We’re ten years on in Guy Ritchie’s career, and from all evidence he’s about to turn the corner into pure commercial filmmaking. For most people there’s only one answer to what derailed him, and that is: Madonna. The pre-Madonna years featured Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and Snatch, the Madonna years featured Swept Away and Revolver, and the post-Madonna’s are now Rocknrolla and Sherlock Holmes, which should be one of the big pictures of 2009. My review of Guy’s Ritchie’s first film after this jump.
Lock, Stock is one of the numerous 90’s crime films to come in the wake of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. It’s a genre that burnt itself out rapidly, with only people like Bryan Singer and Christopher McQuarrie proving themselves above the fray. The majority of the genre was overheated pabulum like Things to Do
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- Andre Dellamorte
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Twilight Saga: New Moon Sets Midnight Opening Box Office Record
20 November 2009 12:58 PM, PST
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It's finally here -- the opening weekend of The Twilight Saga: New Moon (review here), and it's already shattering box office records. Reports are that New Moon set a new high for opening midnight show grosses with an estimated $26.27 million playing at 3,514 theaters for a per theater average of $7,476.
The numbers are courtesy of Fandango, which sold nearly 30% of Thursday night’s estimated domestic box office for the film and also said that New Moon ticket sales show no signs of tapering off this weekend, as the latest Twilight movie is trending to sell more than 10 tickets per second throughout the course of the day.
New Moon's midnight receipts topped previous record holder Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by in excess of $4 million. "This massive fan response portends an opening weekend that could be one of the biggest of the year and reflects the fervor and excitement surrounding
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- Uncle Creepy
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Weekend planner
13 November 2009 4:07 PM, PST
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Things to do with your family this week
At home
We've become compulsive badge makers. It only takes a minute to create one, but one is never enough and our packet of safety pins was consumed quickly in a burst of creativity. We crafted a "Harry is six today" badge for a friend, moving on to emblems for our favourite causes before graduating to a clutch of fashion accessories. First get an image: draw one, cut out a photo from a magazine or print something from the internet. The more colourful the better. Then glue it to some card, tape a safety pin on the back and the job is done. For a deluxe version, laminate the front with clear tape or clingfilm.
We have created insignia that make us self-styled members of International Rescue (Thunderbirds are go!), name badges for fireman/doctor/nurse role-play, and emblems for our own dolphin lovers' club.
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Gossip Girl 3.09 "They Shoot Humphreys, Don't They?" Recap
9 November 2009 9:07 PM, PST
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So It's Cotillion Time again in the Upper East Side. Remember the fantastic Cotillion episode from season one? Tonight's Gossip Girl matched that one and then some, but in the drama department, not the elegant part. And that little Threesome bit? That was awesome, as well.
Blair plans to be a mentor for the Cotillion, but has to face Serena, who she is still beefing with. Chuck tells her to go, because he's Chuck Bass, dammit, and probably deep down wants to see a catfight go down. Meanwhile, Serena has just been hired by Trip Vanderbilt as his publicist, despite the Congressman not needing a new publicist. Ahem…
Jenny preps for the Cotillion, but since she has missed one practice (and is not a ballet student) she has to practice extra hard. Throw in the fact that Jenny doesn't have a escort for the biggest night in a junior Upper East Sider's life,
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- Mark O. Estes
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The Sunday Movie Quotes Quiz – The Answers
9 November 2009 9:38 AM, PST
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Hope you all enjoyed the movie quote quiz. If you missed it, check it out here before you look down at the answers. Any feedback would be useful, too easy or too hard etc…
Here are the answers below, alongside the original quotes. Come back next Sunday for another quiz
1. A plan is just a list of things that don’t happen. – Way of the Gun
2. An ice-cream truck, an ice-cream truck. You know, they’ve got to get there before it melts. – The Cannonball Run
3. Rob…Rob…Rob…Rob… – Cloverfield
4. It’s fried rice, you plick – Lethal Weapon 4
5. I’m Toby N Tucker, that’s TNT, and when i go off, somebody gets hurt. – U-Turn
6. You were supposed to serve six warrants, instead you went out and you went on a rampage. – Young Guns
7. You kidnapped me with a candy bar? – The Chase
8. Please don’t shoot at the thermo-nuclear weapons!
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- Barry Steele
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Excerpt: Bruce McCall's 50 Things to Do with a Book
22 October 2009 2:45 PM, PDT
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Hotel rooms now provide Gideon Bibles only as pay-per-view TV channels. Librarians recently thrown out of work are forced to take jobs assembling Kindles. The Cassandra Report forecasts that more than fifty warehouses across the U.S., long used as book storage and shipping centers, will shortly be converted to video-game facilities. Rare-book collectors are switching to classic Betamax movie videos of the 1970s and 1980s. Dire omens indeed, in line with a recent survey that found that more than half of all Americans didn’t read a single book in the previous year—doubtless a conservative figure, because everybody lies about their reading habits. The trend toward a bookless society is gaining almost daily as a TV-besotted, iPhone-bedazzled, time-starved, speed-crazed populace becomes ever less willing to seek information and entertainment by concentrating their minds on endless lines of type. In brief: the end of books, as man has known
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MoMA Looks Back at Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years
13 October 2009 11:29 AM, PDT
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In anticipation of this weekend's release of Where The Wild Things Are, the Museum of Modern Art in New York has created the first ever retrospective of Spike Jonze's work. Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years.
MoMA's Department of Film has a hip series called Filmmakers in Focus, and last week director Spike Jonze attended the opening for his first-ever career retrospective. The October 8 opener included a conversation with Jonze, organized by MoMA's Associate Curator in their Department of Film, Joshua Siegel. Also present for this discussion was beloved Where The Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak. This seemingly whimsical opening night featured In Cahoots, a collection of several short films that the two made together during shooting for Where The Wild Things Are. Much of the retrospective centers around Jonze's influences and bevy of artistic expressions, as well as his big three films: Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002), and Where the Wild Things Are (2009).
If you're
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- Bethany Perryman
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Battiste, Belcon, Beltran Set For 10 Things To Do Before I Die At 2St Opens 5/28
4 May 2009 1:22 PM, PDT
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Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Ellen Richard, Executive Director) will kick off this summer's Second Stage Theatre Uptown Series with the world premiere of Zakiyyah Alexander's 10 Things To Do Before I Die. Directed by Jackson Gay, 10 Things To Do Before I Die will feature Francois Battiste, Natalie Venetia Belcon, Kyle Beltran, Dion Graham, and Tracie Thoms. Opening night is Thursday, May 28 at 7:00pm.
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Fifth Season of ‘Medium’ Opens With Average Pair of Episodes
2 February 2009 5:51 AM, PST
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Television Rating: 3.0/5.0
Chicago – “Medium” is like TV comfort food. NBC’s paranormal mystery will never break new ground but is almost always entertaining. Each episode and overall season has a way of blending into each other, but there’s something comforting about a Monday night staple that is, at the very least, consistently satisfactory and sometimes better.
Take for example the fifth season opener, “Soul Survivor”. It is an episode that, except for a few character details, could have been in any season of the show. If you’re looking for a series with more pronounced character arcs and development, “Medium” is not the show for you.
Patricia Arquette as Allison Dubois
Photo credit: Mitchell Haaseth/NBC
The premiere of “Medium” opens with Allison Dubois (Patricia Arquette) having yet another psychic dream, this one playing out like an episode of the classic “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not”. In it,
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- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
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