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I’ve decided something, after many years of dissention on the issue: It’s not that Will Ferrell isn’t funny, it’s that Will Ferrell wasn’t funny on Saturday Night Live. I’ve never really been a big fan of Will’s, as I’ve mentioned many times here before. But since his departure from Lorne Michaels’ long-unfunny sinking ship, Ferrell has been showing that he can can carry movies better than I would have ever suspected from watching his SNL days…
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I wish I wasn’t having to write this review. I mean, it’s going to be a pretty fun review to write, but I sure wish I didn’t have to write it. Because having to write this review means that I had to sit through THE STEPFORD WIVES, 93 of the most painful minutes I’ve had to endure in a movie theater in my life…
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The American Film Institute just counted down their top 100 movie songs of all time. And while it seems rather convenient that the list was revealed just a few days before I posted this article, the connection of the two is purely coincidental. This is actually something I’ve had planned for a few weeks, but simply lacked the motivation to get off my ass and compile it.
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The Joes and Cobras finally get their chance to duke it out on the big screen, and it doesn’t happen in a movie endorsed by Hasbro. Rather, it happens on a dodgeball court, in a little inside joke that it took me way too long to get…
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Newsflash, in case you didn’t figure it out by now: SHREK 2 is now in theaters. Just in case the 42.7 commercial spots per hour didn’t clue you in. Or the visages of Fiona and Donkey giving you the evil eye every time you step into the Post Office…
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Five years ago, I was working in a mall. My options for meals were pretty much limited to Wendy’s, Del Taco, Chick-Fil-A, and a handful of other joints that were bastions of artery-clogging food products…
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I guess now that soccer is gaining popularity in the United States as it had already in most of the civilized world, it’s not too inconceivable that we might get a soccer movie or two making waves here in America…
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If you were like me, your biggest disappointment regarding MATCHSTICK MEN was the lack of Status Quo’s “Pictures of Matchstick Men” (or the Camper Van Beethoven cover) on the soundtrack…
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When KILL BILL VOLUME 1 was released last fall, I was sure to be there opening night. After all, this was the latest film from Quentin Tarantino, the man who brought some of the greatest films of the last decade…
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Okay, before I get started here, I’m going to address one point. I get a lot of flak here for my comments on the work of one Kevin Smith. I’ve gotten some nasty e-mails from Smith fanatics that wish me death for giving anything he touches less-than-stellar reviews…
