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REVIEW: The Adventures of Tintin Putt-Putts Along with a Terrier in Tow

There are times when too much of a good thing and not enough meet halfway and settle into a comfortable middle ground. That’s the case with Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin , which would be better if it had been made using more traditional animation techniques rather than that performance-capture nonsense and if 3-D weren’t one of its big selling points.

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REVIEW: The Adventures of Tintin Putt-Putts Along with a Terrier in Tow

Here is an Awards Podcast Featuring a Certain Movieline Editor

The Hollywood Reporter ‘s resident awards guru and all-around nice guy Scott Feinberg invited me to join him on the latest installment of his “Feinberg and Friends” podcast, which is now live at THR . Therein we go deep — like, deep deep, or Ed-Harris-gagging-down-amniotic-fluid-at-the-bottom-of-the-ocean-in- The Abyss deep — on this year’s awards race, including but not limited to…

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Do Scientologists Know it’s Christmas?

For those of you who’ve ever wondered if or how Xenu factors into the more conventional holiday season, along comes this dispatch from the Church of Scientology: “Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard honored the great religious leaders of the past for the wisdom they brought to the world, writing that Scientology shares ‘the goals set for Man by Christ, which are wisdom, good health and immortality.’ It is in this spirit that Scientologists celebrate the holiday season, whether Christmas, Hanukah [ sic ], Kwanzaa or any other religious or cultural tradition. In an annual tradition beginning in 1983 when Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard provided a 60-foot Christmas tree as a gift to the people of Hollywood, Winter Wonderland holiday village is erected each year on Hollywood Boulevard as a service to the community.” Annnnd now I can’t get “Frosty the Thetan” out of my head. [Press release]

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Do Scientologists Know it’s Christmas?

Is Will Smith Brainwashing Children For Scientology?

Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett-Smith have fired the director of a private school they own and run in California and replaced her with a woman with ties to Scientology, according to the New York Post . An article in the LA Times in June said, “Some of its teachers are members of the Church of Scientology, and it will use teaching methods developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.” The former director of the school supposedly quarreled with Smith over the use of Study Tech being used to teach the children.

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