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I really don’t remember this scene from Fantasia.
You may have already seen this, but if you haven’t, do take a moment and check out Cracked.com’s rundown of Disney’s most shameful moments. I mean, not that it’s surprising that a massive corporation run by a right-wing snitch has some skanky race issues, but wow.
Most parents show […]

What is this?

I don’t know about you, but it took me several long minutes of staring at this to realize it was supposed to be a penguin. A Gentoo Penguin, actually, from the movie’s official site. Which is, you’ll note, a rather plump, pear-shaped bird.
But we all know that we can’t have plump, pear-shaped […]

Kyso has a point about the Dutch sinking to new lows on the reality TV front, but at least the French stepped up to the plate — the Cannes Film Festival rewarded a political film with the Palme d’Or:
A harrowing film about illegal abortion in Communist-era Romania beat 21 movies by well-known directors such as […]

This is too delightful: the asshole frat boys from “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” are suing basically every production company involved in the making of the film.

Legal papers said the two men “engaged in behaviour that they otherwise would not have engaged in”….
According to legal documents, a production […]

With the dust-up over CleanFlicks no longer being allowed to remove the offending elements of a film for fundie consumption, TBogg now reports that some wingnuts are demanding conservo-drones make more movies themselves.
I couldn’t agree more. For too long, conservatives have had to suffer the blight of filmic oppression.
Why, just imagine if […]

Like most noir thrillers, The Third Man rewards multiple viewings. My first time through, solving the mystery of Harry Lime and his supposed demise primarily occupied my attention. During my second viewing, I was drawn to Carol Reed’s manipulations of the shellshocked Viennese streets and tunnels, (Alida) Valli’s nuanced performance, the film’s patient […]

It must be exhausting to be an evangelical Christian. There’s so much real stuff to battle — gays, baby-hating feminists, Muslims, Janet Jackson, and an inability to cope with one’s own sexual desires — that piling on debates about what really happened between semi-fictional characters in their fun and friendly book of worship seems […]

Reluctantly, I found myself sucked into the obnoxiously overserious Charly, the 1968 movie version of Flowers for Algernon, on TCM this weekend.
Best dialogue moment:
ALICE: What did you learn?
[a beat]
CHARLY: I’m back. What did you learn?
[a beat]
ALICE: I’m here.
This comes on the heels of Charly attempting to force himself on Alice, failing, and going off […]

“If you’re not willing to take some chances, particularly at this stage of my career, then what are you doing? I know I’ve been commercially successful, but I’m not really a guy looking for safe, middle-of-the-road success.”
-Opie on his latest project
Thank god for artists like Ron Howard. Without them, the unsung voices in this country […]

As if inspiring all of mutantkind to rise up and kick our asses wasn’t enough, he had to go and take on the Lord our God. The fundies are pissed:
Lauer took the bull of controversy more directly by the horns when he interviewed the cast and director Howard today. Said Lauer:
“There have been calls […]

Yeah, yeah, these days Star Wars couldn’t be lamer if they digitally replaced Darth Vader with Michelle Malkin. But at least Lucas is finally going to release DVD versions of the original 3 movies without all his digital trickery and revisionist history.
Han Solo shot first, man. You know it, I know […]