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    Aug 14, 2008, 12:37PM

    Protested Premiere

    Tropic Thunder has received positive reviews for its biting satire on Hollywood actors, but the movie has also generated a storm of controversy because of its depiction of intellectual disabilities. The studio has defended the film, but that doesn't mean they were willing to face protesters at the red carpet. Here's an account of the stormy premiere.

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    Aug 14, 2008, 10:44AM

    30 Years Later And We're Not Fighting Dean Wormer Anymore

    This summer marks the 30th anniversary of Animal House, the frat comedy with an under-appreciated cultural relevance. Bluto, Flounder, and the rest of Deltas rebelled against the pro-military elite, voicing a working class resentment of the 60s that had nothing to do with hippies, Woodstock, or healing crystals. One writer thinks today's frats could use a lesson on how to make college interesting and anti-establishment.

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    Aug 11, 2008, 02:13PM

    The Dangers Of Idiolizing Potheads

    The latest Judd Apatow movie event is Pineapple Express, showcasing Seth Rogen as a loser stoner who ambles his way through a preposterous situation with an attractive girl. Sound familiar? With another repetative and dull movie on the books, one critic wonders how the American movie-going public got suckered into giving stoners more credit than they deserve.

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    Aug 08, 2008, 01:16PM

    Top 10 Drug Movies According To An Addict

    Who better to recommend drug movies than someone who actually uses the stuff? Here's a breakdown from someone trying to avoid a breakdown, written to get through a craving.

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    Aug 08, 2008, 11:16AM

    Digging Up Pygmalion

    Blogger Matt Dessem's endless quest to review the entire Criterion Collection takes him to Pygmalion, a 1938 Oscar winner adapted from a George Bernard Shaw play. The story-a poor flower girl is turned into a debutante on a bet-has been adapted into squishy musical My Fair Lady and an upcoming Keira Knightley film, but Shaw originally wrote it to teach the world a lesson about the importance of phonics. Watch it to see how a proto-Scorsese shot works in the Great Depression.

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    Aug 07, 2008, 03:09PM

    Early Exposure

    Researchers have established that childhood exposure to extremely violent movies has an effect on violent behavior, but until recently nobody knew exactly how many kids were watching slasher flicks. It turns out that 12.5% of children between the ages of 10 and 14 have seen violent movies, with boys, minorities, and the poor being more likely than others.

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    Aug 05, 2008, 11:36AM

    Horror-Comedy More Indie Than Good

    Shot with the pseudo-documentary effect of The Blair Witch Project that worked in the Duplass brothers' earlier mumblecore movie The Puffy Chair, new movie Baghead was supposed to capture the awkardness and irony of struggling young people. But maybe a film shouldn't be too true to life, because the focus on bare-bones production turns out to be a showy gimmick that undermines the actual quality of the film.

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    Aug 04, 2008, 01:03PM

    Taking A Swing At Apathy

    Kevin Costner's new film Swing Vote tells the story of a single blue-collar voter deciding the Presidential election. According to critic Armond White the movie can be half-formed at times, but deserves praise for attempting to honestly articulate the political struggle of middle America when there is so much condescension by the media elite.

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    Aug 01, 2008, 02:28PM

    Aging Like Fine Wine

    Troll 2, originally released in 1990, has been called the Citizen Kane of bad movies. At a recently organized screening cast member Michael Stephenson dropped in, explaining how's he learned to appreciate his unexpected legacy as the "kid who pees in his family's food."

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    Jul 30, 2008, 01:45PM

    That Will Ferrell Movie A Lot Like Other Will Ferrell Movies

    The most emabrassing thing about the new movie Step Brothers isn't that Will Ferrell repeats the role of goofy jackass for the seventeenth time. It's that the occassionally brilliant John C. Reilly seems to have latched on to the goofy jackass gravy train, and will be riding it as long as Hollywood keeps dishing out the cash.

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    Jul 29, 2008, 09:35AM

    Love U Heath

    The Dark Night descended upon theaters last weekend, creating one of those rare cultural events that touched people from many different subcultures. Some viewers found Deeper Meaning in Batman, while others realized that going to the movies in 2008 is too mainstream. Hipster Runoff tells you what Batman was missing, and why teenagers shouldn't dress up like the Joker.

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    Jul 24, 2008, 01:53PM

    Complex Morality

    The new documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired will take fans of the controversially brilliant filmmaker to an uncomfortable place where an artist's life and an artist's work are irretrievably intertwined. Maybe that's why a life that captures the 20th century in miniature has produced some of the 20th century's most memorable films.

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    Jul 22, 2008, 02:12PM

    Bat Battle

    Christian Bale is a badass as Batman (although he apparently is exactly the wrong kind of badass in real life). How exactly does he stack up to Adam West? George Clooney's rubber nipples? A scientific break down of the various on-screen Batmen follows.

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    Jul 15, 2008, 01:03PM

    Kazakhstan After Borat

    After the movie Borat made an entire nation the butt of a joke, Kazakhstan attempted to re-claim some dignity with the film Mongol, the story of the life of Genghis Khan. A stunning visual spectacle with a rich, historical storyline, the movie casts a serious light on the nation. Borat fans may even find a few similarities from their treasured film... NOT!

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