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Edgar Wright Programs 35mm Fest of Movies He’s Never Seen

After programming his favorite cult and classic films in two “Wright Stuff” slates at the New Beverly Cinema , Edgar Wright is returning this month with an unusual twist: For eight nights starting December 9, the Scott Pilgrim director will present double features of films he hasn’t seen. Last time he told you to ” envy these virgins ;” this time, he’s the virgin! It’s the ultimate game of cinematic catch-up that embraces the bashful truth about cinephilia; no matter how many of the greats you’ve seen, there’s always one (or two or a hundred) classics you have yet to check off the list.

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Edgar Wright Programs 35mm Fest of Movies He’s Never Seen

Edgar Wright Programs 35mm Fest of Movies He’s Never Seen

After programming his favorite cult and classic films in two “Wright Stuff” slates at the New Beverly Cinema , Edgar Wright is returning this month with an unusual twist: For eight nights starting December 9, the Scott Pilgrim director will present double features of films he hasn’t seen. Last time he told you to ” envy these virgins ;” this time, he’s the virgin! It’s the ultimate game of cinematic catch-up that embraces the bashful truth about cinephilia; no matter how many of the greats you’ve seen, there’s always one (or two or a hundred) classics you have yet to check off the list.

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Edgar Wright Programs 35mm Fest of Movies He’s Never Seen

Sadface Emoticon: Alec Baldwin Leaves Twitter

Alec Baldwin, one of our chirpiest and most opinionated tweeters, has apparently given up Twitter altogether. The 30 Rock star and Oscar nominee fled the site following an incident in which American Airlines booted him off a plane for playing Words With Friends and for being violent, abusive, and aggressive . All that remains of his Twitter is the handle name and the word “Deactivated.” Sad, sad day. Thrust your American flag at the sky and never forget his above-average GOP putdowns. [ @AlecBaldwin ]

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Sadface Emoticon: Alec Baldwin Leaves Twitter

Sadface Emoticon: Alec Baldwin Leaves Twitter

Alec Baldwin, one of our chirpiest and most opinionated tweeters, has apparently given up Twitter altogether. The 30 Rock star and Oscar nominee fled the site following an incident in which American Airlines booted him off a plane for playing Words With Friends and for being violent, abusive, and aggressive . All that remains of his Twitter is the handle name and the word “Deactivated.” Sad, sad day. Thrust your American flag at the sky and never forget his above-average GOP putdowns. [ @AlecBaldwin ]

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Oscar Index: And the Winner is… Old

We’ve officially crossed the halfway point of this year’s Oscar Index — a bittersweet milestone where the team at Movieline’s Institute for the Advanced Study of Kudos Forensics takes a deep breath, orders a stiff drink, and then… orders another eight or so stiff drinks. While they slam their ways over the awards-season hump, join me for a quick run-through of where things stand this week.

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Oscar Index: And the Winner is… Old

Oscar Index: And the Winner is… Old

We’ve officially crossed the halfway point of this year’s Oscar Index — a bittersweet milestone where the team at Movieline’s Institute for the Advanced Study of Kudos Forensics takes a deep breath, orders a stiff drink, and then… orders another eight or so stiff drinks. While they slam their ways over the awards-season hump, join me for a quick run-through of where things stand this week.

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Oscar Index: And the Winner is… Old

Meryl Streep Exercises Her Authority in Inspiring New Trailer For The Iron Lady

This summer, Meryl Streep formally kicked off Oscar season with the first trailer for The Iron Lady , the British biopic which stars the world’s greatest actress as Margaret Thatcher, the United Kingdom’s glass ceiling-shattering Prime Minister. Now that award speculation season is in full swing, the Weinstein Company has released a second trailer for The Iron Lady that all but guarantees it will earn Streep her long-awaited third Oscar.

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Meryl Streep Exercises Her Authority in Inspiring New Trailer For The Iron Lady

Meryl Streep Exercises Her Authority in Inspiring New Trailer For The Iron Lady

This summer, Meryl Streep formally kicked off Oscar season with the first trailer for The Iron Lady , the British biopic which stars the world’s greatest actress as Margaret Thatcher, the United Kingdom’s glass ceiling-shattering Prime Minister. Now that award speculation season is in full swing, the Weinstein Company has released a second trailer for The Iron Lady that all but guarantees it will earn Streep her long-awaited third Oscar.

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PHOTOS: Pitt, Clooney and Mara As Eraserhead, Mutiny on the Bounty and Clockwork Orange Villains

It may not be Halloween but some of Hollywood’s best and brightest stars dressed up as film’s most notorious villains as part of a wonderful new New York Times gallery entitled “Vamps, Crooks and Killers.” Click through to see Pitt, Clooney and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo star Rooney Mara channel some of the most deranged movie madmen.

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PHOTOS: Pitt, Clooney and Mara As Eraserhead, Mutiny on the Bounty and Clockwork Orange Villains

Efron’s Pfeiffer Crush, Swank’s De Niro Moment, and 7 Other Revelations from the New Year’s Eve Junket

With the year 2011 drawing to a close, the stars of Garry Marshall’s New Year’s Eve were a sentimental — and cheeky — bunch talking up the portmanteau rom-com recently in Los Angeles. “When I stopped wanting my New Year’s Eve to be perfect, to ring in the New Year right, is when it started working out right,” admitted Hilary Swank , seated at a podium about as long as the credit roll for the star-studded holiday pic. At the other end of the panel, Zac Efron faux-wooed co-star Michelle Pfeiffer. “You’re coming out with me this year,” he winked at her. “I’ll show you how we do it.”

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