Midnight in Paris: An Instant Favorite

Midnight in Paris is already one of my favorite Woody Allen films. And I just watched it for the first time last night! It's a fresh, fantastical, funny film set in the beautiful city of Paris staring Owen Wilson and Marion Cotillard. I went into the film having only watched the trailer (which is very vague) so I was incredibly and happily surprised with the details of the plot. I recommend seeing it that way--don't read reviews that give away details....

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Quentin Tarantino, Community, and the Art of the Homage

Crossposted on and commissioned by Film.com Being a fan of Quentin Tarantino can be a perilous place. For people like me, his work is gold; I’ve been obsessed with most — or liked a lot, at least — everything he’s ever touched. He speaks my language. He shares my taste. He does with film what I think film was meant to do. But this isn’t necessarily the popular opinion.For as long as I can remember, I’ve been around Tarantino haters. My parents...

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Goodbye until June 3rd!

 Going out of the country until June 3rd - blogging to start up again when I get back, reade...

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Pitch Meeting: Something Borrowed

Crossposted on and Commissioned by Film.comLate 2009. Three fancy executive types sit in a fancy executive type office, trying to come up with the Next Great Movie Idea.EXEC 1: You know what there aren't enough of? EXEC 2: Where - wait - in what - what context - what are we talking about? Like, endangered species, or - EXEC 3: Bagel chips. In Chex Mix. Proven. I have the AP Statistics end of year project from 1989 to prove it.EXEC 1: Romantic ComediesEXEC 2: Oh! Movies. That makes sense. Just sometimes it helps to begin a discussion with the discussion...

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Hell-Walk 2011: Holy Crap

 The final lap count!A little while back, I interviewed this awesome dude, Josh Tate, who is an employee of the greatest company EVAR, Bad Robot, and was prepping for his charity event, Hell-Walk, where he would walk in a 100 ft circle on a sound stage for 24 hours straight, in an effort to raise 25,000 for Children's Hope Chest. A little while after that, I went to his pre-event fundraiser, held at Sonny McLean's in Santa Monica, where the...

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Game Of Thrones Preview: Episode 4

Here are a couple of clips from Sunday's episode, Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things,Ned looks to a book for clues to the death of his predecessor, and uncovers one of King Robert’s (Mark Addy) bastards.  Robert and his guests witness a tournament honoring Ned. Jon takes measures to protect Samwell (John Bradley) from further abuse at Castle Black; a frustrated Viserys clashes with Daenerys in Vaes Dothrak; Sansa (Sophie Turner) imagines her...

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