The major motion picture studios here in lovely southern California apparently think that we, the moviegoing public, are willing to spend $10 to go see the same movie three years in a row. Think about it — name one movie out right now that isn’t a sequel, a remake, or a sequel of a [...]

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Some of the best documentaries show the viewer places that they’re likely never to visit. They show the bottom of the ocean or the ravages of war. This weekend I had the opportunity to see two documentaries that are about my back yard.
Street Fight, from Marchall Curry, documents the 2002 election campaign for [...]

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Children of Men, the new film from Director Alfonso Cuarón starring Clive Owen, has been transformed from the novel by P.D. James into the best science fiction film I’ve seen in a very long time. Aside from succeeding admirably as an edge-of-your-seat thriller with powerful acting, cogent writing, and beautiful cinematography with brilliantly [...]

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So the best film of 2006, by far, was Borat. As you probably know, the man who plays the title character — Sacha Baron Cohen — almost never appears in the media out of character.
But on today’s Fresh Air from WHYY, Terry Gross interviews the creator of Ali G, Bruno, and, of course, Borat. [...]

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Folks, we’re less than a month away from the year 2005, the year in which Transformers: The Movie is set.
And if that news isn’t big enough for you, there are rumors floating around the internet (collected for the first time right here on your Most Important Blog… Ever) that Steven Speilburg will be producing [...]

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