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Is This Anything Close To Journalism?

2008-07-04 00:35:31 by dpoland in The Hot Blog
 
It's so odd a combination of stories in one week that I almost suspect that Harvey Weinstein's minions planted them for him First, some very silly person at the Village Voice goes through Harvey's garbage . Then, someone claims to be writing a Weinstein tell-all from the inside , apparently from the assistant's desk. And though Page Six parrots...
 
Tags: harvey weinstein, harvey, gossip rag book, gossip, page, files, miramax files, major reporter, positive light
 
 
 
 
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Hot Button Review - Hell To The Boy, Dos a la Oro

2008-07-03 22:56:32 by dpoland in The Hot Blog
 
Guillermo del Toro is truly a bright, beautiful light in the industry. For all of his genius in the imagination of characters and creatures, his real power is in the drama of the misunderstood or broken coming to a place of love and peace, often through violent means. His best film, The Devils Backbone , is also his least effect-y film, though...
 
Tags: film, effect-y film, guillermo del toro, beautiful light, pans labyrinth, real power, magical stuff, devils backbone, budget
 
 
 
 
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Hancock - Spoiler Review

2008-07-03 03:10:33 by dpoland in The Hot Blog
 
For those who are quick to call Hancock a mess or the third act a huge left turn or Variety's hypetastic "Last Action Hero-like" or whatever euphemism they are using this time, I offer this very serious suggestion see the movie again. If they still dont see how well the tapestry is woven, I will leave them to their myopia It was a fascinating...
 
Tags: film, film moved, entire film, action hero-like, non-spoiler review, spin move, call hancock, offer, speech
 
 
 
 
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Wow... That's Dumb - July 4 Edition

2008-07-02 20:50:37 by dpoland in The Hot Blog
 
...movies actually sell better," this freakshow of pretzel logic is grotesque enough to actually look a lot like one of my less successful attempts to use math and odd stats to their worst end Here, he uses Rotten Tomatoes as a barometer...first HUGE mistake. I love RT. It is a great site and a great idea and as a basis for statistical analysis,...
 
Tags: summer wide releases, summer, releases, movie, movie reviewers, wide releases, million, kids movie, under-20 million openings
 
 
 
 
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Hancock - Non-Spoiler Review

2008-07-01 23:45:32 by dpoland in The Hot Blog
 
Hancock is very much in the spirit of Iron Man , from earlier this summer. Our hero is an anti-hero drunk, smug, angry, selfish, and powerful. But unlike Tony Stark, his story starts to turn not when he is beaten into a change of perspective but because there is something going on inside of him that is clearly aware of an ambivalence about his...
 
Tags: hancock, spoiler review, bit, unlike tony stark, bit willful, hero, tv set, anti-hero, story starts
 
 
 
 
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Back To Life... Back To Unreality

2008-07-01 21:10:54 by dpoland in The Hot Blog
 
...movies have been... more along the lines of what everyone expects from Christopher Noland and The Dark Knight than the by-the-book Marvel movies. Like Hancock , it is imperfect, but the depth of emotion reached for... the effort to do more than effects and COOOOOL is profoundly different Speaking of Blu-ray, I attended an event for Disney's...
 
Tags: disney titles, disney, disney network, disney bd-live community, sony blu-ray, sony, community, blu-ray product, product
 
 
 
 
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BYOB - Thursday...

The Article has images
2008-06-26 20:10:48 by poland in The Hot Blog
Ocupado
 
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The Media Foists Its Own View Of Middle America On Disney

2008-06-26 19:55:41 by poland in The Hot Blog
 
I find it fascinating that the media is now having a field day - four links on the cover of MCN and more to come, I'm sure - taking the position that Wall-E's portrayal of a future STORY SPOILER WARNING in which earth has been decimated, the survivors live on corporately-controlled ships in which they are kept satisfied and simple-minded so...
 
Tags: media, people, inherently lazy people, media universe, fat people, wall-e, media friends, wall-e sounds, fat
 
 
 
 
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Wanted: Fight Club Without A Brain

2008-06-25 09:48:37 by dpoland in The Hot Blog
 
I've dreading digging into Wanted , the over-the-top, uninterested-in-reality or narrative mediocrity on its way from Universal. Don't even get me started on this film getting a pass, as it surely will, while the same supporters bitched about Speed Racer 's visuals, who paid no attention to Daywatch and little more to Nightwatch , who don't care...
 
Tags: film, skills, spectacular technical skills, daywatch, bekmambetov, daywatch dvds, movie, timur bekmambetov, massive fake boobs
 
 
 
 
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BYOB - Tuesday... And On...

2008-06-25 03:34:44 by dpoland in The Hot Blog
 
I don't know how soon I will be adding the next entry... could be 10 minutes... could be 5 days Be careful out there
 
Tags: entry, minutes, careful, days