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Scanners' 2007 Exploding Head Awards (Part 1)

View image And the Exploding Head goes to... Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd in "Knocked Up"? I'll publish my annotated "best of" list next week, but while thinking back over the year's movies I recalled some things that seemed to…

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Movie Answer Man (12/13/2007)

Q: The box-office returns for "The Golden Compass" last weekend were modest at best. The film is estimated to have cost more than $150 million and will have a hard time making its money back. The financial disappointment could be…

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Your brain, dog butts, and the quantum movie

View image Superbad-position: I don't know what this photo has to do with this post. I just think Michael Cera is a genius and his face is hilarious. Excerpts from two pieces I've read recently that to me (of course)…

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Corliss wonders: Do Film Critics Know Anything?

Critical approbation can open some doors, but that's about it. Richard Corliss writes at TIME: In the past five days, five groups — the National Board of Review, the Boston Society of Film Critics, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association,…

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LAFCA: There Will Be... more 2007 critics awards

Dillon Freasier (great!) and Daniel Day Lewis (... BIG!) in "There Will Be Blood." The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (my former homies) have announced their collective choices for best achievements of 2007 and... well, for now, I'll just say…