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The BJ

That's the way they're promoting the British heist movie "The Bank Job" -- on the web, anyway. The Flash ads say "The BJ," and then the B and the J move around and spell out the title. Gets your attention,…

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Movie dialog that leaps off the page

WARNING: Your eyes and ears will be be exposed to the fully spelled-out and pronounced f-word if you play the above clip. I love typography. If you've read previous posts on "Helvetica" and Trajan, the Movie Font, you know that.…

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Glen Hansard slags the Once DVD cover

View image "I put together the DVD cover and the poster originally. And then they took it and f--king bastardized it." Academy Award-winning Irish songwriter Glen Hansard (the Academy urges us to identify Oscar-nabbers that way for the rest of…

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Jonathan Rosenbaum on the life of a critic

This week film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, 65, retires from a 20-year stint at the Chicago Reader. In this interview, posted at The Reader's site, Rosenbaum looks back at his career (writing, editing, blogging) and ruminates on what he'd like to…

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Anne Boleyn vs. Abbie Hoffman vs. the Nazis

View image Activism as political cartoon: "Chicago 10." My reviews of "Chicago 10, " "The Counterfeiters," and "The Other Boleyn Girl" are in the Chicago Sun-Times and RogerEbert.com. Guess which review this is from: Mary Boleyn: "You know I love…