Disappointed with a chance of meatballs. »

Well, that’s too bad. Back a year or so ago when I heard that they’d be making a movie out of Judi and Ron Barrett’s terrific kids’ book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, I hoped maybe it’d be made live-action. Handled well, the idea of seeing an actual town where it rained hotdogs and [...]

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My humiliation lasted longer than Six Days, Seven Nights. »

Is there a movie that you would simply delete from history if you could? Just travel back in time, knock off the screenwriter and then watch the movie’s IMDB page fade away into the space-time continuum?
We’ve all got these, right? Historically speaking, we’d all have been better off if some movies just didn’t exist. [...]

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More X-Men to get younger, film fans to get dumber, Hollywood to rub its collective hands in greed and avarice. »

In its never-ending effort to run its valuable properties not just right into the ground but also beat them and shred them and burn, stomp and otherwise destroy them beyond all possible recognition until suddenly they’re new and then begin the whole thing all over again, Hollywood seeks to further “leverage” its X-Men properties into [...]

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