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17 Aug 2009 10:59

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Culture: Someone spent way too long researching “Groundhog Day”

  • 8 years – the time Phil Connors spent stuck on repeat in Punxsutawney source

13 Aug 2009 23:08

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Culture: Critics have a massively huge nerdgasm over “District 9”

09 Aug 2009 20:51

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Culture: “G.I. Joe” a real American hero at the box office; “Funny People” dives

  • $56.2 million the amount “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” made in its opening weekend, despite not being screened for critics source

04 Aug 2009 11:06

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Culture: “Canadian Bacon 2”: Michael Moore drops the documentaries?

  • I have been working on two screenplays over the last couple of years. One’s a comedy, one’s a mystery, and I really want to do this.
  • Michael Moore • Discussing his post-“Capitalism: A Love Story” plans recently. Does that sound like the kind of guy who will be directing documentaries for the rest of his life? We think not. (By the way, in case you’ve never seen it, we highly recommend his only fiction movie thus far, “Canadian Bacon.”) • source

03 Aug 2009 09:20

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Biz, Politics: Columnist: Netflix is killing human interaction, makes you lazy

  • Beyond the mail delays and the botched orders, the lack of human interaction is the big problem with Netflix and its cyber-ilk.
  • Richard Corliss • In an opinion piece on Netflix, and why he doesn’t like it. Despite its huge success (two billion discs served over a decade), it feels hollow and imperfect to him. He specifically brings up the loss of his local video store, Kim’s Video, which closed earlier this year. But more than anything, he criticizes how it makes people shut-ins: “So, O.K., soon there will be no more waiting for DVDs. But it’ll come at a price. You’ll be what the online corporate culture wants you to be: a passive, inert receptacle for its products.” Ouch! • source

26 Jul 2009 11:06

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Culture: At a Comic-Con, a conference for nerds, James Cameron is God.

Dude showed off 25 minutes of footage from upcoming 3D flick “Avatar” at this year’s conference, and left nerds’ tongues wagging long afterward. source

12 Jul 2009 12:32

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Biz, Politics: Hollywood: The industry formerly known for its flat screens?

It’s been 50 years since this many 3D movies came out. And if money talks, how’s this: James Cameron’s Avatar will be the most expensive movie ever made. source
 

12 Jul 2009 11:44

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Culture: “Brüno” did böffo at the böx öffice this weekend

  • $30.6 million in sales for a man pretending to be gay source

10 Jul 2009 15:44

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Culture: Well, that sucks. Appears major critics aren’t so hot on “Bruno”

  • The Washington Post’s Ann Hornaday, savaged Sacha Baron Cohen’s mock-doc, saying “the skits don’t add up to anything substantive, and even his swipes at U.S. politicians here seem gratuitously cruel.”
  • While Colin Covert of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune says Cohen’s latest is “a bit of a letdown” and notes that it feels padded, he still says “he’ll never run out of bigotry, idiocy and hypocrisy to spoof.”
  • cold
  • lukewarm

06 Jul 2009 20:44

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Culture: In a box-office battle between robots and pre-history, robots win.

  • $42.3 million weekend take of “Transformers 2,” based on official results released today source