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Weekend Cinema Listomania (Special What -- No Batpole? Special Edition)

Friday, December 5

DVD Event of the Week: Is it Disney's The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian? Or perhaps Universal's Wanted, starring James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie? Or for heaven's sakes, could we be really talking about Sony's Step Brothers, yet another slapstick farce from the Judd Appatow Eternal Adolescence factory? All worthy, to be sure, but in the meantime here's a relevant project for us all -- Most Memorable Screen Performance That Should Have Won an Oscar But Didn't...

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Punisher: War Zone

by Marco Cerritos

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Incompetent and cartoonish are the best words to describe Punisher: War Zone, the continuation of the Marvel Comics series reintroduced to moviegoers in 2004. The first Punisher established ex-Marine Frank Castle as a blood-thirsty vigilante avenging the murder of his...

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Cadillac Records

by Steve Simels

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There's probably a great movie to be made about the nexus of art, commerce and race relations in the music business in the early days of rock ’n’ roll. Cadillac Records, which plays way too fast and loose with history...

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Four Christmases

by Amy Nicholson

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Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon—America's Lothario and America's Sweetheart—are an oddly apt pairing in Seth Gordon's middleweight comedy about a supposedly rock-solid couple undermined by a day with their families. As the biggest romantic comedy debut in months, Four Christmases...

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Milk

by Sara Schieron

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Gus Van Sant's Milk is at once an homage to the country's first openly gay, publicly elected official, a love letter to the movement he aimed to forcibly expel from "the closet" and a celebration of the city in which...

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