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TCM Thrillers for March 2 – 8

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‘Fireproof’ Shows How to Avoid Preachiness, Cliches

     Fireproof might make some viewers uncomfortable at first, bu...

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‘Big Hollywood’ Relieves Academy Awards’ Emetic Qualities

     Reading the 'Big Hollywood' live blog during the televised A...

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‘Slumdog Millionaire’ Too Good for Oscars?

     Tonight Hollywood tells us once again what we should like&md...

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TCM Thrillers for February 27th – March 1st

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‘Friday the 13th’ Sets Opening Weekend Box Office Record; Besson Film Stays Strong

   Warner Bros' and producer Michael Bay's remake of the influential 1980 h...

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The ‘also-rans’ of National Review’s Conservative Movie List

Kathryn Jean Lopez has some nits to pick with John J. Miller's list of the Top 25 Conserva...

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Are Slasher Films More Than Just Exploitation?

  S. T. Karnick's essay on the 1980 original version of Friday the 13th and the ...

movies
Overrating Films Based on Politics—Conservative Edition

    Conservatives often do the same thing they justly complain about l...

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DVR Alert! Movie Mysteries Feb. 16-22

    TAC correspondent Mike Gray has the scoop on some fine movie myste...

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Comedy, Suspense Remain Strong at Movie Box Office

 He's Just Not That Into You, a romantic comedy starring Jennifer Aniston, Ben Afflec...

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‘Brazil’ Appreciation Sparks Furious Denunciation

    A published appreciation of Terry Gilliam's Brazil sparked a bizar...

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‘Last Templar’ Shows Value of Cultural Freedom

         NBC's miniseries The Last Templar is an i...

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Burning Danny Boyle in Effigy

So, we see that the desperately poor people of Patna, India are filth-throwing mad about D...

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Downey’s Oscar Nod Shows Good Sense About Racial Issues

       The Oscar nomination for Robert Downey Jr.'s per...

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‘Mall Cop’ Survives Critical Raspberries with Big Audience Success

   Paul Blart: Mall Cop, a comedy the critics hate, is still number one at ...

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R.I.P. Ricardo Montalban

'I mean to avenge myself upon you, Admiral' The great Ricardo Mantalban has passed on to...

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Eastwood Tops Box Office

  At age 78, directing and appearing in what he says might be his last starring ...

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Fish’s Top Ten Movies List

 The literary theorist and academician Stanley Fish has published his list of the ten...

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Internet Blamed for Idiocy of ‘At the Movies’ Host

   The decline of the mainstream media—a very good thing—is the...

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Independent Christian Film Was Hollywood’s Best Investment in 2008

  Yes, The Dark Knight made more money in U.S. theaters than any film in history...

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Celebrating 35th Anniversary of ‘Death Wish’

   American Movie Classics is marking the 35th anniversary of the release o...

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America’s Dark Past, and Present, in a Blind Alley

A vivid example of the powerful changing of the American mind during just a few short year...

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U.S. Movie Box Office Remains Strong As Audiences Broaden Tastes

U.S. movie box office attendance remained strong in the first weekend of the year, with Ma...

art
Agog Over the Van Goghs

  Vincent Van Gogh is definitely not one of my favorite painters, but I'm glad t...

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Big Weekend at the Movies

     U.S. audiences flocked to the nation's movie theaters this p...

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A Christmas Crime Burlesque

Here's a brilliantly funny burlesque of twisty films noir, set at Christmas. Directed by V...

books
Christmas CDs; ‘In Bruges’; ‘A Clockwork Orange’

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Che Movie; Palin Haters; New Number 1 on TV

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‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ Opens OK at Box Office Despite Horrible Reviews

      The new remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still is get...

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‘Four Christmases’ Stays Strong, Audiences Begin to Sour on ‘Milk’

   U.S. movie audiences are ignoring the critics—wisely—writes ...

genres
‘Wanted’ Has Much to Offer Beneath Sensationalistic Surface

   The action/sci-fi/conspiracy/you-name-it film Wanted, available on DVD a...

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‘Four Christmases’ Leads High-Performance Weekend for Hollywood Genre Films

    U.S. movie audiences stayed with tried-and-true genre films and re...