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Wondering what bloggers have been chatting about this week? Here is Your Reading and Listening Schedule for Today : 9 am : Episode 247 of the Mamo podcast finds the Matts bringing back their Summer Box Office contest . 10 am : Episode 65 of the CriticalMassCast podcast centers around Hunger Games . 11 am Kai's resurrection of the Hot or Not feature caused a fascinating debate [...]

As part of our continuing coverage of this year's Hot Docs , we are offering up another edition ( part 1 ) of our Hot Docs 2012 preview. Here are the titles we think you, especially all the James Franco fans out there, will want to catch at this year's festival: Francophrenia (or: Don't Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is) A baby's been stolen and Franco, the homicidal performance artist, is the prime [...]

Mel Gibson 10 sample films: Braveheart The Beaver Mad Max Lethal Weapon Chicken Run Signs What Women Want Hamlet Maverick Ransom or John Travolta 10 sample films: Pulp Fiction From Paris With Love Saturday Night Fever Face-off Grease [...]

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Today marks an important day in the history of this blog. It marks two years that my wife and I have been married. What does this have to do with a film blog you ask? Well, a lot actually. If you stay with me for a just moment I will elaborate further. In the two years since I became a married man, a lot has happened in my personal life. Most of it has been good (i.e. the birth of my son) and some of it has been bad (i.e. getting into a car [...]

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Wondering what bloggers have been chatting about this week? Here is Your Reading and Listening Schedule for Today : 9 am : Episode 11 of The Long and Late Movie Show podcast takes in Wrath of the Titans . 10 am : Episode 253 of the Cinecast podcast reviews both Mirror, Mirror and The Raid . 11 am Rachel embraces cinematic girl [...]

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As the 2012 edition of Hot Docs gets ready to kickoff in a few short weeks, we are already feverously working behind the scenes preparing our coverage. In order to wet your appetite for this year's festival, each week leading up to the festival we will to take some time to highlight some of titles screening at Hot Docs 2012: We Are Legion: The Story of the Hactivists We Are Legion is a guide [...]

Sean Connery 10 sample films: Goldfinger The League of Extrordinary Gentlemen The Name of the Rose The Hunt for Red October The Hill Highlander The Avengers The Great Train Robbery The Rock The Untouchables or Clint Eastwood 10 sample films: [...]

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Black Gunn A blaxploitation film starring both Jim Brown and Martin Landau may sound like a recipe for awesomeness, however, sadly Black Gunn does not deliver. The film really tries too hard to sell the plot, which is a mistake since the plot is anything but original. Basically Gunn (Jim Brown) must avenge his brother's death after he is killed by the mafia (which includes Landau). Gunn's brother was part of a militant African-American group that robbed an illegal bookmaking operation run by the mob. In many ways Black Gunn [...]

The 7 x 7 Link Award is a blogging meme that has specific guidelines: 1. Tell everyone something that no one else knows about you.2. Link to one of the posts that I personally think best fits the following categories: Most Beautiful Piece, Most Helpful Piece, Most Popular Piece, Most Controversial Piece, Most Surprisingly Successful Piece, Most Underrated Piece, and Most Pride-Worthy Piece.3. Pass this award on to seven other bloggers. Although we are notorious for forgetting to participate in most blogging memes, we have made a point to contribute to this one as a thank you [...]

Wondering what bloggers have been chatting about this week? Here is Your Reading and Listening Schedule for Today : 9 am : Episode 80 of the Frankly, My Dear podcast review Being John Malkovich and raffle off a 10" Plush BOB-OMB from Super Mario Bros. 10 am : The latest episode of Lee and Dan's Midnight Movie Club podcast find the guys chatting about Batman: The Movie and commenting on [...]

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James Franco 10 sample films: 127 Hours Milk Date Night Sonny Pineapple Express Howl Eat Pray Love Spider-Man 2 In the Valley of Elah The Rise of the Planet of the Apes or Adrien Brody 10 sample films: [...]

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For years the Vanishing Point was a film that always appeared on various car chase inspired film lists alongside great films such as Bullitt and The French Connection . However, unlike those two films, Vanishing Point seemed to receive more praise for its stunt driving than its actual plot. It was not until Quentin Tarantino released his faux-exploitation film Death Proof , which pays homage to this film, that the praises for Vanishing Point reignited. Directed by Richard C. Sarafian, Vanishing Point is [...]

The excitement has been building for months and, as I write this, the film has already set the record for the best opening day ever for a non-sequel with $68.3 million dollars. While the box office information only really matters to studio executives, if nothing else the strong opening shows that The Hunger Games has united the fans and curious alike. The ten o'clock Saturday morning screening I attended was ninety-percent full as many, such as the young female soccer team that took up the entire row behind me, decided to make the film a communal event. [...]

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