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Spooks: 'The Ghost Writer' - A Review
The body that washes up on shore at the start of "The Ghost Writer" is not the first of many, which may surprise moviegoers accustomed to the bloodshed and casual chaos that characterize the modern so-called thriller. Roman Polanski,...
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Beat Beifuss Contest Winners: Ten Names That Shook the World
Is Beifuss as cool as Oscar-winners Lee Marvin and William Holden, pictured above? He'd like to think so, but apparently he's not cooler than the lucky 13 Mid-Southerners who beat him like a mule (or, in keeping with the...
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Bush League: 'She's Out of My League' - A Review
"She's Out of My League" isn't bad enough to be a career killer, but the fact that this "frank" gross-out (don't ask about the grooming sequence) with delusions of thoughtfulness will live forever in Spike TV/USA Network limbo alongside "The...
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Another Side of 'The Blind Side'
Memphis teacher Melody Weintraub certainly doesn't have the name recognition of Sandra Bullock or even Leigh Anne Tuohy, but her association with "The Blind Side" is interesting in its own right. In case you missed the story Sunday (March...
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Bass-O-Matic: 'Cigarette Girl' Gets New York Times Boost
The New York Times this week gave a boost to Memphis moviemaker Mike McCarthy and his most recent feature, "Cigarette Girl," by using an image from the movie to illustrate a story about the film and television titles competition...
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The Horror! A Very Few Brief Oscar Afterthoughts...
You'd think I'd be the last person to complain about an Oscarcast salute to horror movies, but the essentially random and context-free montage introduced by "Twilight" stars Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart -- who looked like she was just oh...
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The Oscars and 'Artistry'
For some obscure reason, I was among a handful of folks -- including Jonathan Rosenbaum! (late of The Chicago Reader) -- asked to contribute a brief pre-Oscar essay to the New York Times' online "Room for Debate" feature last...
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Spike Lee in Memphis: Do the Right Thing and Go See Him on March 17
Producer, director, writer, actor and provocateur Spike Lee will give a free public talk on what a press release describes as "the image of black America and the politics of fim and media" at 7:30 p.m. March 17 in the...
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Less Than Eight Hours Left To Beat Beifuss and Win 20 Movie Tickets!
As I type this, the "Beat Beifuss at the Oscars" contest is -- like Harpo at the end of "A Day at the Races" -- in the home stretch: You have until 5 p.m. today (March 5) to enter....
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The Color of Innocence: 'The White Ribbon' - A Review
A tale of "strange events" set in a small German village on the eve of the first World War, "The White Ribbon" -- a nominee for this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film -- is a typically engrossing...
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Feed Your Head: Tim Burton's 'Alice in Wonderland' - A Review
According to the Motion Picture Association of America, "Alice in Wonderland," the new 3D film for Disney from one-time Mouse House exile Tim Burton, has been rated PG for fantasy action/violence involving scary images and situations, "and for a smoking...
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'Beat Beifuss at the Oscars' Enters Its Final Week!
You want to be as cool as Jack, and claim a victory of your own? Then get cracking: You have one week left to enter The Commercial Appeal's annual "Beat Beifuss at the Oscars Contest," which gives you, the reader, the opportunity to...
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A-Goooooood Reading: 'Sivad - The Book' Is Here!
For three years, Memphis artist extraordinaire and underground hero Tom Foster has organized Downtown gallery exhibitions of drawings and paintings of Sivad, the alter ego of the late Watson Davis, who was the famous "Monster of Ceremonies" host...
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Leo the Lion in Winter: 'The Last Station' - A Review
The Oscar-nominated performances of doubtful Best Supporting Actor Christopher Plummer and unlikely Best Actress Helen Mirren are the best reasons to see "The Last Station," a chronicle of the final days in the life of Leo Tolstoy, the famed...
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Brewer at Brooks: 'The Flicks That Made Me a Filmmaker'; or, It's a 'Celebration,' with Never-Before-Seen-in-Public Footage
The "Reel to Real" ("Real People, Reel Favorites") program at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art continues at 7 p.m. Thursday (Feb. 25) when the Mid-South's most famous active moviemaker, Craig Brewer, presents a program he calls "The Flicks...
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