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Before we begin with the celebrity videos that rocked my world this weekend, let’s discuss the term “boodos.” Urban dictionary swears boodos is the opposite of kudos, but I’m not sure I’m smelling what they’re stepping in on this one. Is it a real word? Can you add “boo” to any word and make it [...]
While it’s not surprising that The Avengers has literally made a billion dollars in its first few weeks, what IS a bit surprising is that the movie’s breakout superhero was The Hulk. Mark Ruffalo was great as Big Green/Bruce Banner; he has one of the movie’s best lines and the two best scenes (two sight [...]
Battleship unnecessarily shoves itself into theaters today, much to the sadness of every person who has ever played Battleship. Or persons who have seen Rihanna and are sad that she exists. Or persons who value their souls. Just like every other crappy movie that’s produced these days, your kids can’t wait to go see it. [...]
Hold on to your skirts and giant floppy flower hats, ladies of the 90′s, because Joey Lawrence is about to make all the television dreams you forgot you once had come true. Sure, it’s been a few years since he was anyone’s teen heartthrob. He may be older than we remember (36) and look… a [...]
I’ve said it before and I will probably never stop saying it: I LOVE NEWSIES. I loved it the first time I saw it way back in 1992, in the movie theater, alternating between wanting to get up and dance with childish abandon while also processing some very complicated, very adolescent feelings about all those [...]
George Lucas, creator of the Star Wars saga and flannel shirt aficionado, has taken how-to-deal-with-your-lousy-neighbors to a whole new epic level. The director, who owns a large patch of land north of San Francisco in Marin County, has, for 25 years, attempted to build a 300,000 square foot movie studio on the lot, in another attempt [...]
The Dark Knight trilogy director Chris Nolan treated the lore of Batman as a story worth time, patience, fantastic actors, and a groundbreaking script. It broke everyone’s expectations of what a superhero movie could be–Batman was suddenly fallible–no cheesy one-liners or hack villains in this Gotham. Nolan achieved this unparalleled superhero success by doing one thing: Nolan [...]
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