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With M. Night Shyamalan's latest opus on the horizon, our thoughts are drifting to one of the best and worst things ever to happen to movies: the twist ending. True, the twist ending hit oversaturation in the early '00s, when it seemed like every film ended with a tacked-on revelation that all the characters were dead or the same ...
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Ever wondered who those people in the MPAA are, and what kind of criteria they're using to distinguish between a PG-13 and an R? Well guess what -- nobody knows. That's because the MPAA is, quite literally, a secret organization, whose members are anonymous and whose voting methods are entirely arbitrary. But if you want to know ...
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This week, Ames, Iowa resident Daniel Stender posed the following question to Roger Ebert's "Answer Man" column: I am a fine arts student at Iowa State University. Currently I'm painting a series depicting movie scenes with people in bear suits. So far I have painted a scene from The Shining and a scene from the The ...
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Twenty-eight-year-old Heath Ledger, one of Hollywood's most promising young actors, was found dead in his Manhattan apartment two hours ago, reportedly surrounded by sleeping pills. Ledger started out his career as a teen heartthrob, garnering young fans and critical derision with pap like A Knight's Tale — but like Leonardo DiCaprio ...
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Earlier this week at MacWorld, 20th Century Fox announced that select DVDs will now include an additional digital copy of the film that can be transferred into iTunes. Will this totally change our expectations for what we get in a DVD box? Is it silly and redundant, destined to be a short-lived trend? Does anybody even care? Give us your take ...
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A pregnancy test is not an etch-a-sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet. See: Juno Pregnancy instantly propels the father-to-be into a mid-life crisis. Luckily, women never panic about being pregnant. Women love babies! See: She’s Having a Baby, Nine Months During your pregnancy, dreams are unusually vivid and ...
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Any day now, I'll start taking it for granted — but for the moment, every time I discover a great film streaming free online, it feels like a visit from Santa. Today's free movie is the eye-opening 1996 documentary The Celluloid Closet, which caters not only to film buffs and gay culture aficionados, but to anyone with a short ...
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It's the little things in life that make us happy. Like when Jeffrey Wright make headlines for reprising his role as a CIA agent in the next James Bond film, Bond 22. Wright is one of those actors who's received extraordinary critical praise throughout his career, yet has mostly been relegated to character roles, meaning he's not yet a ...
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Chicago film critic Jim Emerson has published the first part of his 2007 Exploding Head Awards on his blog, Scanners (not to be confused with Nerve's blog, Scanner). It's far more entertaining than most year-end lists, but we did notice a great deal of repetition. Let's run down exactly what makes Jim's head explode, shall ...
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