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Paranormal Legislative Activity

Jake Brewer | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Read the Bill, Mary Katharine Ham, H.Res 554, Sunlight Foundation, Comedy, Movies, Jake Brewer, Parody, Paranormal Activity, Politics News

Some really strange stuff went down when the Sunlight Foundation gave a Congressional bill and a camera to a couple. Totally unexplainable.

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Enough With the Whiny Vampires Already

Mark Morford | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: True Blood, Fleshlight, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dracula, Sex Toys, Movies, Vampires, Succu-Dry, Twilight, Stephenie Meyer, Entertainment News

How much more can an exhausted pop culture take, after the Twilight phenom and its never-ending cavalcade of Walmart-ready tchotkes?

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Scariest Movies For Halloween Night: What's Your Favorite? (VIDEO)

Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Halloween, Video, Scariest Halloween Movies, Halloween Movies, Movies, Slidepoll, Entertainment News

With Halloween here, and with many enjoying it for the wild parties and the sexy costumes, we thought we would go back to the basics. We want to be s...

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Antichrist Might Be God-Awful, But That Doesn't Make It Misogynistic

Melissa Lafsky | Posted 10.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Misogyny, Antichrist, Lars Von Trier, Cannes Film Festival, Movies, Hollywood, Entertainment News

I don't have to tell you that Antichrist sucks. But if this audience-chafing, Cannes-enraging glob of rubbish is so irredeemable, why the hell is every publication still in existence racing to write about it?

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"Amelia" Earhart: A Different Kind of "Chick Flick"

Dan Glickman | Posted 10.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Chick Flicks, The Shriver Report, Hilary Swank, Amelia Earhart, Amelia, Maria Shriver, Amelia Movie Review, Movies, Entertainment News

We may love our Mad Men on television. But increasingly our society is moving beyond "the problem that has no name," as Betty Friedan once famously put it.

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DVDs -- Rock N Roll Heaven

Michael Giltz | Posted 10.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Britcoms, Spongebob, Futurama, TV Shows, Simpsons, Marlene Dietrich, Movies, Dvds, Entertainment News

Nothing can replace being in the room, of course, but the 9 DVD set Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Museum Live takes some of the sting out of not being there.

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Just in Time for Halloween: The 10 Best Modern 'Direct-to-DVD' Horror Films

Scott Mendelson | Posted 10.22.2009 | Entertainment

The Children isn't the most violent film, nor the goriest or showiest. It haunts because it boils itself down to an unanswerable question: would you kill your own sick children to prevent them from killing you?

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My Action Plan: 15 Things Every American Can Do Right Now

Michael Moore | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cooperatives, Newspapers, Twitter, Civil Disobedience, Evictions, Credit Crisis, Credit Cards, Media, Facebook, Democratic Party, Green Energy, Single Payer, Barack Obama, Movies, Campaign Finance, Michael Pollan, Wall Street, Michael Moore, Protest, Sarah Palin, Showdown-in-Chicago, Financial Crisis, Capitalism: A Love Story, Universal Health Care, Climate Change, Foreclosure, Medicare, Unions, Global Warming, Politics News

I have 15 things we can all do right now to fix the very broken system in this country and to fight back against those who have brought us to where we are. C'mon people -- we can do this!

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Beyond "Balloon Dad": Web Series Continue Startling Growth

Greg Mitchell | Posted 10.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Television, Comedy Series, Web Series, Funny or Die, Movies, Richard Henne, Balloon Boy, Entertainment News

The biggest Web series news last week was the publicity for The Psyience Detectives produced by Richard Heene, the Balloon Dad. It never got off the ground, so to speak, but the genre will survive for sure.

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Weather Channel To Begin Showing Movies

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Weather Channel Movies, Movies, Weather Channel, Media News

NEW YORK — The Weather Channel plans to show movies for the first time in its 27-year history and it's easy to guess which one is leading off. ...

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Where The Wild Things Are Wins Box Office

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 10.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Film, Law Abiding Citizen, Invention of Lying, Surrogates, Box Office, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Where the Wild Things Are, Movies, Toy Story 3-D, Paranormal Activity, Warner Brothers, Revenue, Zombieland, Wb, Maurice Sendak, Spike Jonze, Couples Retreat, Stepfather, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — "Where the Wild Things Are" proved a bigger hit with adult audiences than family crowds as the adaptation of Maurice Sendak's belo...

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Where The Wild Things Are Stars Reflect On The Book

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Where the Wild Things Are, Where the Wild Things Are Movie, Books, Wild Things, Children's Books, Maurice Sendak, Movies, Sendak, Books News

LOS ANGELES — Before joining the cast of "Where the Wild Things Are," the actors had fond memories of Maurice Sendak's picture book about an unr...

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HuffPost Review: Where the Wild Things Are: The IMAX Experience

Scott Mendelson | Posted 10.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Warner Bros, Reviews, Scott Mendelson, Imax, Where the Wild Things Are, News, Spike Jonze, Movies, Entertainment News

The idea of high-quality entertainment that is specifically directed at children seems to be an oxymoron in the critical community. However, Where the Wild Things Are, is very much a high-quality children's movie.

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Whip It: The Real Girl Movie of the Year

Rachel Simmons | Posted 10.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ellen Page, Drew Barrymore, Movies, Roller Derby, Whip It, Entertainment News

Here's the deal. Whip It, the new Drew Barrymore/Ellen Page film, is tanking at the box office. We have to go see it. If we don't, the money's going to dry up for girl-power films.

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ReThink Interview: Daniel Ellsberg -- the Most Dangerous Man in America Speaks, Part Two

Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Battle of Algiers, Nationalism, Henry Kissinger, Afghanistan, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Rethink Reviews, Daniel Ellsberg, Film, Jonathan Kim, Movies, Paul Wolfowitz, Movie Reviews, Insurgency, Whistleblowers, Jonathan Kim Movie Reviews, Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith, Richard Nixon, Occupation, Vietnam War, Documentary, Movie Critic, Counterinsurgency, Pentagon Papers, Machiavelli, Torture, Entertainment News

The second part of my interview with Daniel Ellsberg, the true American hero who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971.

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Exclusive: Nellie McKay Talks About Her Best Album Yet

Michael Giltz | Posted 10.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Animal Rights, Activism, Doris Day, Popular Music, Broadway Musicals, Broadway, Big Band, Music, Movies, Nellie Mckay, Entertainment News

Nellie McKay's fourth album, Normal As Blueberry Pie, is a warm and quietly marvelous tribute to Doris Day. It hits the sweet spot in combining her talent and sensibility (future-retro?) in one focused project.

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New York, You've Changed: Taxi Driver, Part III

Nick Carr | Posted 10.14.2009 | New York

Read More: Hilton Theatre, Gothic Cabinet Craft, Language of Love, Betsy, Jodie Foster, Manhattan Bridge, Martin Scorsese, Films, Travis Bickle, Madison-Square-Park, Scouting Ny, Movies, New York News

I don't look back nostalgically on the grittier New York of the late 1970s. As I never experienced it first hand, I believe it's dangerous and naive to romanticize something the city has worked to rise up from.

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HuffPost Review: Paranormal Activity (2009)

Scott Mendelson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Blair Witch Project, Reviews, Scott Mendelson, Jaws, Paranormal Activity, Horror, Deep Blue Sea, News, Movies, Paramount, Entertainment News

Horror films work best when you realize that you cannot trust the filmmakers. But writer/director Oren Peli crafts a low-tech chiller that almost plays too fair with the audience.

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Movie Review: Couples Retreat - A Male Perspective of Marriage Mayhem

Miguel Guadalupe | Posted 10.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Faizon Love, Malin Ackerman, Couples Therapy, Kristin Davis, Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jean Reno, Jon Favreau, Kali Hawk, Kristen Bell, Carlos Ponce, Movies, Entertainment News

One would think that a movie about marriage and relationships would be the ultimate chick flick, but this story is very much from the man's point of view.

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Amreeka

James Zogby | Posted 10.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Arab World, Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Movie Reviews, Amreeka, Middle East, Immigration, Movies, Entertainment News

The remarkable film, Amreeka, the first feature length work of a young Palestinian-Jordanian American, marks an introduction to the Arab immigrant experience in post 9-11 America.

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Defiant Danish Director Lars von Trier Tackles Antichrist

Brad Balfour | Posted 10.10.2009 | Entertainment

Questions for Lars von Trier: "You had a a researcher on misogyny in the credits. In the writing or making of this film did you learn something about misogyny in yourself, in your work?"

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HuffPost Review - Trick 'R Treat (2009)

Scott Mendelson | Posted 10.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Warner Bros, Trick 'R Treat, Review, Horror, Scott Mendelson, Movies, The Children, Entertainment News

Trick 'R Treat is a stunningly lifeless and seemingly aimless would-be horror comedy. It is a muted and rushed affair, seemingly edited without discipline and constructed without purpose.

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Motherhood Is Not Just For Mothers

Katherine Dieckmann | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Minnie Driver, Films, Motherhood, Anthony Edwards, Uma Thurman, Mothers, Movies, Living News

Movies are stories. Stories that take us places we may not have been to before, in the hope of enlarging our sense of human drama or frailty or complexity.

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ReThink Interview with Daniel Ellsberg: The Most Dangerous Man in America Speaks (Part One)

Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.29.2009 | Entertainment

I was enthralled by The Most Dangerous Man in America, and when I was told that Ellsberg would be in Los Angeles for a week in late September and would be available for an interview, I jumped at the chance.

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Munchkin Reunion Video: Aging Cast Reunites To Celebrate Wizard Of Oz 70 Years After Its Release (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Newsweek, Wizard of Oz Anniversary, Munchkin Video, Wizard of Oz, Munchkins Reunion, Toto, Old Munchkins, Film, Judy Garland, Movies, Little People, Entertainment News

Seventy years after the Lollipop Guild first sang to Dorothy in The Wizard Of Oz, the actors who portrayed the Munchkins reunited. Newsweek caught up...

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