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The Hills: JUST LIKE an Antonioni film.
The best and worst sellout films of all time. Or, at least, the past 30 years.
On film critics, and why we have no future.
Blah blah blah Fanboys.
Why Iraq films are bombing, theory #363 and # 364.
Bret Easton Ellis: still catty about Jay McInerney.
Be Kind Rewind: marginally responsible for Al Gore jokes.
Heath Ledger and death as marketing. Maybe even tourism marketing.
Speaking of marketing buzzwords: Lou Dobbs!
Parker Posey: out of a job. Thank god.
Casting the next Dakota Fanning.
George Lucas: “Get over it, nerds.”
Trailer: Glory at Sea
Vogue and King Kong (racist) chic
Shotgun Stories: Like All The Real Girls, with violence instead of romance.
Everyone hates Sarah Marshall
On the podcast: interviews with AJ Schnack and Manda Bala director Jason Kohn.
Why is Perez Hilton so anti-W?
Richard Widmark dies.
Why Run, Fatboy, Run might be bad, but it’s not a bad romantic comedy.
Why Karina is happy to practice Tribeca restraint.
Coke in movies.
Tom Cruise and Sumner Redstone eat lunch.
An Oscar-hopeful doc meets the qualifying rules whilst simultaneously seeming to defy them.
Another New York film festival.