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New Year’s Resolution: Follow Us on Twitter!

New Year’s resolutions are mostly ridiculous. Spoiler alert: You aren’t going to drink less or go to the gym more in 2011 simply because you feel guilty at the end of 2010. Not gonna happen. One resolution that you can keep, though? Following Movieline on Twitter! You’ll get all of our great content, but in the easily digestible 140 characters that Twitter allows. We won’t even judge you for your vices. Join us, won’t you? [ @Movieline ]

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‘Julie Christie Is Lantern-Jawed’ and 12 Other Scathing Reviews of Screen Legends By a UK Film Critic

How could you possibly criticize Julie Christie, the Doctor Zhivago beauty, Oscar winner and screen legend whose career has spanned five illustrious decades? Let British film critic David Thomson show you: “She is, sadly, obvious in her efforts, lacking in either gaiety or insight and, most serious of all, gawky, self-conscious and lantern-jawed.” Tell us how you really feel! Oh, wait; you did.

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‘Julie Christie Is Lantern-Jawed’ and 12 Other Scathing Reviews of Screen Legends By a UK Film Critic

‘Julie Christie Is Lantern-Jawed’ and 12 Other Scathing Reviews of Screen Legends By a UK Film Critic

How could you possibly criticize Julie Christie, the Doctor Zhivago beauty, Oscar winner and screen legend whose career has spanned five illustrious decades? Let British film critic David Thomson show you: “She is, sadly, obvious in her efforts, lacking in either gaiety or insight and, most serious of all, gawky, self-conscious and lantern-jawed.” Tell us how you really feel! Oh, wait; you did.

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‘Julie Christie Is Lantern-Jawed’ and 12 Other Scathing Reviews of Screen Legends By a UK Film Critic

Special Effects Guru Grant McCune of Star Wars Fame Dies at 67

Oscar-winning special effects artist Grant McCune, one of the original members of George Lucas’ F/X team, has passed away at 67 from complications from cancer. Chances are that McCune played a major role in your childhood and adult life with his work on Star Wars , Star Trek: The Motion Picture or maybe Spaceballs . In remembrance of McCune and the model-work he helped pioneer, here’s a making of video of some more recent miniatures work his special effects company did on Spider-Man . After that, take a look at clip from Star Wars: A New Hope which showcases the work which won McCune an Oscar. Rest in peace.

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Special Effects Guru Grant McCune of Star Wars Fame Dies at 67

Movie Tweeviews: When a 141-Character Review is Just Too Much…

You know how it goes: More and more often, you just don’t have the bandwidth to process a movie review of intellect, substance and/or proper English. And in your vexation, you sigh and wonder to yourself, ” God, when will someone pleeeeease dilute criticism to a more digestible tweet length? ” Here you go: Movie Tweeviews. It is what it sounds like. Sample : “THE FIGHTER is engaging, start to finish. Bale & Adams are great & Wahlberg is a brute force, but the emotional crescendos are muted.” I smell the future. [ Movie Tweeviews via THR ]

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Movie Tweeviews: When a 141-Character Review is Just Too Much…

Natalie Portman Is Pregnant and Engaged to Black Swan Co-Star

Forget No Strings Attached . How will this announcement affect Natalie Portman’s Academy Award campaign? The Black Swan star’s representatives have confirmed that the Best Actress frontrunner is engaged to, and expecting a child with, Swan choreographer Benjamin Millepied. The couple met during production on the Darren Aronofsky film — where Millepied also co-starred as Portman’s on-screen dance partner — and are expecting their child sometime in 2011. Congratulations! [ People ]

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5 Classic Christmas Episodes You Can Watch Right Now

For those of you who aren’t content pumping Rankin-Bass specials through your rust-armored VCR this Christmas, here are five classic holiday episodes to rouse your yuletide. Expect cameos from Sam Kinison and Juliana Hatfield!

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5 Classic Christmas Episodes You Can Watch Right Now

Weekend Forecast: Fockers of the World Unite and Take Over

Welcome back to a very special holiday edition of Movieline’s Weekend Forecast! Actually there is nothing that special about it besides the fact that it’s on Thursday and features perhaps the most whiplash-inducing swing of good-to-bad multiplex fare of any week in recent memory. But therein lies the happy news: There is good stuff to see here! But how much money will it make? To the Forecast!

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Weekend Forecast: Fockers of the World Unite and Take Over

Can Steven Spielberg Save the Democratic Party? and 7 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Your daily Spider-man: Turn Out the Dark update…Harrison Ford does not want Indiana Jones dead…Merry Christmas from the Human Centipede director…and more…

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Can Steven Spielberg Save the Democratic Party? and 7 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today