Green Lantern Release Date: June 17, 2011 Director: Martin Campbell Writers: Greg Berlanti, Michael Green, Marc Guggenheim and Michael Goldenberg Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively and Peter Sarsgaard MPAA Rating: PG-13 HoboTrashcan’s Rating: At its heart, Green Lantern is a film about fear and responsibility. I know this because the words “fear” and “responsibility” appear…
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Introduction Time travel and fashion Mad Libs Reese Witherspoon’s donkeys Canz People you should know … Harry Dean Stanton Box Office Preview “The Big Easy” by Crooked Saint
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Nicole Alexandria [Editor's Note: Joel Murphy is searching for the meaning of life, so today we bring you another special guest column by confessed hipster Nicole Alexandria.] The first line of my internet dating profile says: “I’m kind of a cunt.” As I’ve learned over the years, dating is more or less the most ridiculous…
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Aaron R. Davis We need to talk about what monstrous credit-hogs people are becoming on the Internet. If you spend enough time — in my case, far too much time — on social networks, eventually you’re going to run into these people who are very meticulous and demanding about receiving credit for work they think…
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Doctor Who: Series 6 “A Good Man Goes to War” Aired: June 11, 2011 Writer: Steven Moffat Director: Peter Hoar “This is the day he finds out who I am.” – River Song Steven Moffat has an incredibly gift for making episodes of Doctor Who feel epic. Both the finale of last season featuring the…
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Ned Bitters The first installment of this year’s greatest hits consisted only of comments made by me. Let’s start Volume II with some of the wisdom-laced remarks made by the people who will some day draw your blood in a hospital … or direct your plane in for landing at the busiest time of the…
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Super 8 Release Date: June 10, 2011 Director: J.J. Abrams Writer: J.J. Abrams Stars: Elle Fanning, Amanda Michalka, Kyle Chandler MPAA Rating: PG-13 HoboTrashcan’s Rating: Super 8 is the antithesis of modern filmmaking. Hollywood’s go to move these days is updating old films in a modern context, using buzzwords like “reboot” and “gritty reimagining,” but…
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Introduction Puppet talk Busty blackjack dealers Facebook tattoo People you should know … Rade Serbedzija Box Office Preview “Grown Man” by J. Whizz
Joel Murphy James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender are getting a lot of praise heaped on top of them for their performances in X-men: First Class and rightfully so. After Brett Ratner “Brett Ratner-ed” the franchise with 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand and Gavin Hood put the final adamantium nail in the coffin with 2009’s X-Men…
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Aaron R. Davis Dear Mungo: You live in strange and frustrating times. Assuming that global warming superstorms don’t kill us all, you will one day be able to tell your kids, hopefully, that you managed to survive the most ridiculous political circus in American history, the probable fall of American civilization, Internet trolls rushing to…
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