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Bad Movies We Love: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

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Since I’m rational, Christmas puts me in the mood for nostalgia and cartoonish violence. Accordingly, I’m torqued to explore one of the sweetest and most carnage-laden celebrations of the yuletide, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York . Chris Columbus’s unthinkably successful box office hit ($173,585,516 in the U.S. alone) reunites us with Kevin McCallister, pits him against bumbling baddies Harry and Marv, and even trots out an extra Oscar-winner for our ironic amusement. Did I mention that it’s sometimes more violent than The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ? Because I wouldn’t be lying about that. I also wouldn’t be lying when I say this is a totally stupid movie that should come standard with every American home.

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REVIEW: Glenn Close Explores Female Sexual Repression in Dowdy, Unfinished-Feeling Albert Nobbs

Posted on December 21, 2011 by | Leave a comment

All of the characters in Albert Nobbs , a mild and mildly stirring adaptation of the George Moore short story, are dreamers. Employees in a mid-19th century Dublin inn, they dream of each other, chiefly, and the ways in which they might be set free. They deceive each other, as well, so that their dreams are often projected onto false fronts — of character, of obligation, and — in a couple of cases — of tightly bound breasts.

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David Copperfield Totally Lost Out on Orson Welles’s Oscar

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Tucked away in this report that Orson’s Welles’s Citizen Kane Oscar finally sold this week for $861,542, find this depressing revelation: “Underbidder David Copperfield had been eager to acquire the statuette because Welles apparently was something of a magician himself. Copperfield already owns many props from the movie.” The winner of the auction has not been identified, but whatever. “Underbidder David Copperfield.” Saddest holiday ever. [ Deadline ]

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Let’s Rank the 10 Finest Screen Performances of 2011

Posted on December 21, 2011 by | Leave a comment

If you’re both a movie fan and a consummate statistician, it’s easy to love and appreciate the Oscars for shoehorning the majority of film history into a manageable grading rubric. I’m an Oscar apologist myself, and I still have one bone to pick with the Academy — and all award-spewing organizations: the unnecessary reliance on gender-based categories. Is it not more thrilling to pit all actors against each other? Is there such an objective difference between Jeff Bridges and Sandra Bullock? Meryl Streep and Robert Downey Jr.? “Actor” is a gender-neutral term, and I think we’d all better off — and better entertained — without the meaningless siphoning. Thus, I’m stacking up the best performances of 2011 without categorical regard for gender or role size. It’s a winner-take-all affair, and this winner definitely wants it all. Here’s my top 10:

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There is a Leaked Prometheus Trailer, and It Is Kind Of Awesome

Posted on December 21, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Earlier today 20th Century Fox unveiled a shiny new look at Michael Fassbender in Ridley Scott’s 2012 Alien related event pic Prometheus (via Empire ), all blond and space-suited. Exciting! As if that wasn’t enough to get your juices flowing, an unofficial version of the first trailer for the sci-fi thriller oozed onto the interwebs mere hours ago, and although it’s shaky-cammed with fuzzy audio and is even labeled “Leaked”… it’s kind of adrenaline-pumpingly awesome.

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Watch Conan O’Brien Defile Hanukkah (and Tom Six’s Artistic Vision) With Human Centipede Menorah

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If you’ve been looking for a way to incorporate Tom Six’s gross-out film Human Centipede II into your holiday traditions, Conan O’B rien has just the gift for you: The first-ever (and hopefully last-ever) Human Centipede menorah — made up of nine unfortunate men and women bound to each other mouth-to-anus style, with each carrying a giant candle on his/her back. Mazel tov?

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James Franco in Talks to Play Hugh Hefner in Porn Drama

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Here’s one way to deflect attention from NYU GradeGate : Variety reports that James Franco is in talks to play Playboy impresario Hugh Hefner in Lovelace , the porn biopic starring Amanda Seyfried as the titular XXX actress Linda Lovelace, of Deep Throat fame. Unfortunately — or fortunately? — Franco’s role would be limited to a one-day cameo, which sounds like something along the lines of his blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Green Hornet appearance. The film is currently shooting in Los Angeles. [ Variety ]

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Talkback: Which of These 39 Tunes Deserves the Oscar for Best Original Song?

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I have a particular fondness for the Oscars’ Best Original Song category. Where else will you find Carly Simon, Eminem, Irene Cara, Marvin Hamlisch, and Keith Carradine together — other than one fantastic revival of Bravo’s Celebrity Poker Showdown ? The potential nominees for this year’s award have just been released, an I’m already playing favorites with one criminally twee jam. Pick your favorite after the jump.

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First Hobbit Trailer: Haven’t We Met Before?

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From the director of The Lovely Bones and the producer of Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark comes… this . What can I say? It’s a year away and it’s going to make a fucking fortune.

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50 Years Later, What’s the Greatest Scene in Judgment at Nuremberg?

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So, 1961 gave us some of my favorites, including the torrid Splendor in the Grass and the damn swanky One Hundred and One Dalmatians . (Both feature barking, well-pedigreed protagonists in Pongo and Natalie Wood’s histrionic Deanie Loomis.) But the staggering dramatic achievement of 1961 was neither teenage melodrama nor an animated canine caper — it was Judgment at Nuremberg , Stanley Kramer’s sprawling epic chronicling the post-WWII war trials. Since the movie came out in theaters 50 years ago this week, let’s revisit its staggering scope. What’s its best scene?

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