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REVIEW: Crass, Crude Hall Pass Finds Redemption in Unlikely Source

The pleasantly crude Hall Pass reminds us of what’s been missing from movies: Those squirm-inducing moments in comedy that produce enough discomfort that at points what we’re watching is half a heartbeat away from a horror film.

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REVIEW: Crass, Crude Hall Pass Finds Redemption in Unlikely Source

Watch Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow Doll Attack Michael Jackson, Other Superheroes

Take Me Home Tonight’s Dan Fogler on Drugs, Dance-Offs and Sex with Supermodels

If you ever fantasized about stealing a car without consequences, having a threesome with a supermodel, or competing in a coked-up dance-off in an 80s movie , talk to Dan Fogler. The Brooklyn-born Tony winner gets to do all of those things and land the best lines in next week’s 80’s movie extravaganza Take Me Home Tonight starring Topher Grace and Anna Faris.

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Take Me Home Tonight’s Dan Fogler on Drugs, Dance-Offs and Sex with Supermodels

Potiche Trailer: Why Yes, Catherine Deneuve Can Run a Factory

After Swimming Pool became something of a surprise art house hit, the United States more or less went back to ignoring French filmmaker François Ozon, despite the fact he seemed to nearly double his output in the succeeding years. That seemed fair enough, since his output can indeed be pretty inconsistent. But after watching the trailer for Potiche , I’d like to point out that the guy at least deserves credit for audacity. After gaining international recognition for erotic thrillers, he went ahead and made a fairy tale about a flying baby ( Ricky ), and now, what appears to be a French version of Working Girl with Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu.

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Potiche Trailer: Why Yes, Catherine Deneuve Can Run a Factory

VIDEO: That House/Pulp Fiction Spoof You Always Wanted

Drinks! Prizes! Oscars! Join Movieline and 92YTribeca for This Year’s Big Show

If you’re one of the many swell Movieline readers based in or around New York City, you’ve surely already marked down Feb. 27 as the night you’re joining us and the gang at 92YTribeca for our annual Oscar Viewing Party . But just in case you haven’t, I bring you news that will no doubt sweeten the deal. (Hint: Drinks!)

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Drinks! Prizes! Oscars! Join Movieline and 92YTribeca for This Year’s Big Show

DVD: Sweet Smell of Success Still a Cookie Full of Arsenic

One of the amusing running gags in Barry Levinson’s Diner is a character who wanders through the movie, constantly muttering lines from Sweet Smell of Success , newly available in a snazzy new Blu-Ray edition from The Criterion Collection. And with dialogue this good — courtesy of Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, based on Lehman’s story — who can blame the guy for wanting to recite these delicious lines over and over? “The cat’s in the bag, and the bag’s in the river,” “You’re dead, son; get yourself buried,” “Your mouth is as big as a basket, and twice as empty,” “In brief, from now on, the best of everything is good enough for me” — this is staccato word jazz of the most delicious variety.

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DVD: Sweet Smell of Success Still a Cookie Full of Arsenic

Which Celebrity Relatives Made a Godard-Inspired Music Video?

Imagine that you are the young, beautiful relatives of two celebrities — one, a co-host of this year’s Academy Awards; the other, an actual Oscar winner — and you have some down time on your hands. What do you do? If you’re these two up-and-coming stars, you rent a red convertible, take some cues from Breathless and shoot a music video for the pop song “Go Outside” by the Cults. Take a look ahead.

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Which Celebrity Relatives Made a Godard-Inspired Music Video?

Play Movieline’s 2011 In Memoriam Oscar Montage Pool!

If any element of the annual Academy Awards telecast represents an equalizer between your party’s Oscar geeks and the more casual fans who just dropped in for the booze, it’s got to be the chance to win big money on one of the night’s most hotly debated segments: the In Memoriam montage.

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Play Movieline’s 2011 In Memoriam Oscar Montage Pool!

James Franco’s Latest Job: An Art Exhibit with Gus Vant Sant

Yup. He is an Academy Award nominee, actor, Oscar host, curator, student, singer, soap star, literary fellow, self-pleasure enthusiast, Twitter star, and champion for seventies sitcoms, but it’s still not enough for James Franco . The man who collects jobs like Charlie Sheen collects loose-lipped escorts has added another bullet point on that already crowded CV — he is being featured in a new art exhibit alongside Gus Van Sant.

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James Franco’s Latest Job: An Art Exhibit with Gus Vant Sant