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On DVD: With 15 Extra Minutes, Seeing Robin Hood is Even More Disbelieving

Only about 10 million Americans resisted the critics’ irritated wailings and bought tickets for Ridley Scott’s mastodon movie Robin Hood this spring, and so the rest of us, now that the DVD is here, can find out what all the non-fuss was about. Even with 15 extra minutes thrown in for “the director’s cut,” it’s truly not an awful movie — it’s just so hugely redundant of other movies, and so brutally humorless, that when you watch it your brain begins to react like it’s trapped in a sensory deprivation tank.

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Val Kilmer Passed on ‘Hardcore Pornography’ of Blue Velvet

Another fun Movieline Vault discovery : While discussing Batman Forever in 1995, Val Kilmer confessed he missed the boat on David Lynch’s Blue Velvet . ” ‘I was given [a copy of that script] because [at one point] I was involved with Dune ,’ he recalls. ‘It would have been my first job for damn near a year. So, Dave gave me the script and it was straight-out, hardcore pornography before page 30. I never finished it. I said, “Good luck, but I can’t do this.” It isn’t what he ended up making,’ he says, pointedly. ‘That movie, I would have done.'” Of course. [ The Vault ]

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Conan O’Brien Finally Answers Your Question

Last week, Conan O’B rien took questions from Facebook users in an effort to further publicize his new, eponymous late night yuk-fest, Conan . Because, yeah, what channel is this show on again? (Let’s hope that Conan and team are putting as much effort into the content of his show as he is promotion.)

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Buzz Break: The Good News and Bad News About Elisabeth Moss’s Pending Divorce

Paul Giamatti on His TIFF Triumph Barney’s Version, Playing Drunk and the Politics of Karma

Last time Movieline caught up with Paul Giamatti, the actor was still getting his head around having played a version of himself in the curious indie Cold Souls . This year in Toronto, we reconvened to discuss a matter of similar weight and import: How a guy from Brooklyn came to play one of the most celebrated characters in recent Canadian literature — in a film adaptation all of Canada had its eyes on.

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Paul Giamatti on His TIFF Triumph Barney’s Version, Playing Drunk and the Politics of Karma

The Situation’s App is a Best-Seller, and 6 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Also in today’s edition of the Broadsheet: Rachel Weisz joins the 360 promiscuity roundelay… Nobody cares about I’m Still Here … Don’t hold your breath for Kick-Ass 2 … and more…

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Michael Vartan Reveals Lifelong Struggle with Dorfism in Touching ‘Funny or Die’ Video

The Event’s Laura Innes Talks About Ditching Kerry Weaver and Her Favorite Movie Scene

Laura Innes picked up two Emmy nominations for playing the no-nonsense, but deeply repressed Dr. Kerry Weaver on ER . Three years after leaving that series, she’s back on NBC’ s new drama The Event as Sophia, “the leader of a mysterious group of detainees” who might know a bit more about the enigmatic “event” than she lets on. Just ahead of tonight’s premiere, we spoke to Innes about typecasting, her action-genre aspirations, and her favorite film scene of all time.

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REVIEW: Producer-Writer Shyamalan’s Devil Short on Fun, Fright

If the devil is in the details, Devil could use fewer of them. Writer-producer M. Night Shyamalan’s planned series of spooky, seemingly family-friendly “Night Chronicles” begins with the world’s very first claustrophobic-whodonit-recovering alcoholic-boogie man-slasher-Christian morality tale. Devil packs a lot of business into 80 brisk minutes but is shockingly short on fun or fright. What should be a simple, fool-proof setup for a chiller of confinement — five strangers get stuck on a broken elevator and mysteriously start dropping dead — gets overwhelmed by enough incident and absurdity to make a Goosebumps fan roll her eyes.

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Rapper Nicki Minaj’s Acting Debut: Stuck on Autopilot?