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I'm not reviewing it, but I'll warn you: "New Moon" is even worse than "Twilight." What's Michael Sheen doing in this toothless snoozer?
11:14 PM Nov 19th
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In "New Moon," the town cinema is showing the cool-but-obscure documentary "Gambling, Gods, and LSD." Kudos to the film geek in the Art Dept
10:32 PM Nov 18th
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To describe Wes Anderson's stop-motion fable "Fantastic Mr. Fox," I promised not use the f word. But it is, well, westastic.
3:28 PM Nov 12th
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The Academy will be giving an honorary Oscar to B-movie king Roger Corman ("Little Shop of Horrors"). Call it "Attack of the Killer Irony."
12:17 PM Nov 11th
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"The Godfather" on AMC. I'm booked for the next 4 hours. "Someday, and that day may never come, I'll call upon you to do a service for me."
6:40 AM Nov 8th
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First thing I watched on my new (and needless) flat screen: "Snow White." Second: the World Series. I may be Grumpy, but I swing both ways.
7:59 PM Nov 4th
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Cool detail in "The Shinng" (on TCM): Each of Jack's "All work and no play..." pages are individually typed and formatted. That took work!
1:55 AM Nov 1st
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I loved "The Men Who Stare at Goats," the psychic-warfare comedy by my USC frat brother Grant Heslov. Clooney as usual, is outta sight.
2:40 PM Oct 29th
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The sublime "An Education" is set in Twickenham, the London 'burb where my own education was set to happen- 'til I was beset by money woes.
10:18 AM Oct 27th
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To housebreak our feral cat, Ringo, I play her my DVD of "Morgan," the madcap '66 Britcom about the king of the urban jungle. She submits.
11:16 PM Oct 25th
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Staring hungrily into a box of St. Louis filmfest disks. Docs about Wavy Gravy, Pavlov's Dog, web surveillance, film critics and (!) Branson
12:01 PM Oct 25th
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Heartbreak at the pet store on Adoption Day. Nobody wants an old dog if you can't teach it new tricks. Sorry, Daisy.
6:56 PM Oct 24th
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Think anything is sweeter than imbibing "Strange Brew," the Bob & Doug McKenzie movie with evil brewer Max Von Sydow? Take off, ya hoser.
10:24 PM Oct 23rd
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I don't follow a lot of "celebrity" tweets, but this one from Penn Jillette tied me in a knot I can't untangle.
1:45 AM Oct 22nd
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John C. Reilly is a gem as a tap-dancing vampire in the otherwise-unpolished "Cirque du Freak."
11:25 PM Oct 20th
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All the hype was about "Where the Wild Things Are," which aspires to art, but this Boomer preferred "Astro Boy," which delivers zippy fun.
11:34 PM Oct 17th
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Just saw two films about pioneering women in love triangles: "Coco Before Chanel" and "Amelia." What's next, "The Eleanor Roosevelt Story"?
4:57 PM Oct 15th
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I'll say this about "Where the Wild Things Are": If you loved the book, you'll like the movie. (FYI: I bought it from Scholastic in '64.)
2:52 AM Oct 13th
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Finale of "The Great Escape" on Ch. 9: Steve McQueen fails to jump the border fence, then pats his downed bike like it's a valiant horse.
11:46 PM Oct 10th
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IFC is running a marathon of "Prisoner" episodes starting at 7 pm Central. Beware the blob, number 6.
12:21 PM Oct 9th
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- Name Joe Williams
- Location St. Louis, Mo., USA
- Web http://www.stltod...
- Bio Film critic, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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