Movie Spoiler THE CAMPAIGN (2012) starring Will Ferrell - after review

The Campaign is a new political satire from Jay Roach (Austin Powers, Meet the Parents), who has been wetting his lips lately with screenplays like Recount and Game Change (both produced for HBO), based on real events. This fictitious film deals partly with the formula running for office has become with focus groups, polling, and media savvy. One character quips at one point, "It's all math." Ironically, it has been pretty common these days to match...

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Movie Spoiler HOPE SPRINGS (2012) starring Meryl Streep - after review

In Meryl Streep's latest film Hope Springs, she plays Kay, a middle-class wife and mother from the Baby Boom generation. But, just because it's a comedy-drama with no accent challenge, don't think for a second Streep is creating a character she has played before. Her mid-length strawberry blonde hausfrau (with a supplementary job) adopts a meek persona who doesn't rock anyone's boat until it might be too late. Her curmudgeonly accountant counterpart...

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Broadway in Burbank Review

Bright Eyes Productions presented Broadway In Burbank last night at the Colony. I was actually running late getting into the Valley and Waze took me on a route I had never experienced before (using Outpost to get to Mullholland taking me down to Cahuenga).  Pretty nifty!  Despite the slow polks in front of me on the short-cut, I nabbed a princess parking spot right across from the theatre and arrived after 8:05 PM only to realize that...

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Kristen Stewart, Not So Pure as the Driven Snow

It has been widely reported that the planned sequel to Snow White and the Hunstman has been shelved, and Universal will now develop a film based on "the Huntsman" (Chris Hemsworth), that would not include Kristen Stewart's Snow White.  Universal has denied this.  First of all, that the original movie didn't even earn back its budget domestically makes this whole production of Snow White, the Huntsman, or both, an unsound business decision....

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Trailer: Cloud Atlas

"I'm just trying to understand why we keep making the same mistakes over and over."  Ain't that the truth.  This film looks like a hot mess, but I'm intrigued for n...

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Movie Spoiler Summary: Intruders (Intrusos)

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s Intruders, based on an original screenplay by Nicolás Casareigo and Jaime Marques, stars Clive Owen as a father, John, who must save his daughter from the boogeyman, known as Hollowface. The creepy intruder also haunts the lives of another young child and parent. Yet, no one else can see this apparition, which calls into question the sanity of those who can. There is a twist, that might be picked up early on by the more...

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Best Actress 2012: August Prediction

You'll have to excuse my fickle nature this year with my predictions.  I've been pretty much all over the map.  It's not that I'm afraid of commitment; it's just that I have trouble sticking to one logic.  I wasn't planning an August prediction, but I needed to do a little house-cleaning.  While its success has been modest, Beasts of the Southern Wild is hitting a lot of pundit's short lists, and out of the Sundance submissions,...

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What the World Needs Now Is, Van, Sweet, Damme

Thanks to Lainey's appreciation of Jean Claude Van Damme's "kung-fucking" and red carpet antics for the upcoming The Expendables 2  He has given some awfully good world premiere pappage.  While, he's a bit of joke, I can't help but smile at how much he is enjoying the royal treatment while being somewhat relevant for this moment.  If only more stars took themselves less seriously and gave fans shit they want to see.  Hollywood,...

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Opening This Weekend: Great Hope for Springs

Jones knows that playing against Streep is a bad ideaI took an extended break from posting for a variety of reasons, but I thought I would dip my toe back into the blogging waters to see what the temperature is like.  Are you familiar with the game Hollywood Stock Exchange?  It started around fifteen years ago.  I throw that number out there, because I remember joining before My Best Friend's Wedding opened and it was pretty new at...

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