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Bat Mess by The Hot Blog

How does one speak to the Christian Bale situation with anything other than pained sympathy for all involved? What does "assault" mean? What kind of confrontation led to the conflict? What drives family members to a place where they will go...
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Dumping Posts by The Hot Blog

I havep proudly chosen NOT to dump comments or to "ban" anyone from this site over the years. Today is an exception. One of the regulars decided to go above and beyond in being a jackass... and most likely, a drunken or stoned jackass. And his...
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coming soon by The Hot Blog

There is a special genre of comedies, bringing together can't miss talent, a big ambitious idea, and a trunkful of money. The list includes: Mystery Men Harlem Knights Johnny Dangerously Club Paradise Young Doctors In Love Soon, they will be joined...
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Charlie Joffe, RIP by The Hot Blog

I have a slightly odd history connected to Charlie Joffe’s business. (I’ve never heard anyone call him anything but “Charlie.” I’m not trying to be disrespectful in any way.) It was my cousin, who also passed away recently, Lenny Maxwell, that brought...
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Back To Life... Back To Unreality by The Hot Blog

Back to the grind... just in time for a vacation week. Thanks to all for their kind notes and words. I missed the Hellboy Dos party at LAFF, so we're going to see the film tonght and in anticipation, watched Hellboy on Sony Blu-ray last night. Wow...
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FYI - For Those Interested by The Hot Blog

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I See Bad Movies by The Hot Blog

Someone suggested this, kinda, in another thread... But it really does seem like we are now in the moment where a thread about bad movies is an absolute theraputic neccessity for the first time this summer. Yes, word is that Get Smart is good, even if...
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Long Night's Journey... by The Hot Blog

I never thought it would happen to me. (Nah, it's not one of those stories!) The 2 hour weather delay was irritating. But the 5.5 hours stuck inside a plane, 3.5 hours of it 5 feet from the gate, but not at the gate, making a retreat back into New...
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Heckuva Town by The Hot Blog

Good afternoon... Running around NY has superseded finding a wi-fi signal, but thanks to the iPhone, here are a couple of items... I was shocked to read a bit of bias spin as a front page story of the NYT today. The game was to position the sexism spin...
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Marvel At A New Generation Of Junk by The Hot Blog

As I sat through the amazingly indulged mediocrity that it The Incredible Hulk - and no, it's not like Iron Man where I was looking at the same ingredients and expressing different taste... this film is not even close to the quality of that other...
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All The Kings Horses And All The Kings Men... by The Hot Blog

I don't really care what the excuse or the explanation is... Katherine Heigl just took a sharp turn onto Career Self-Destruction Blvd with this "I won't accept an Emmy nod" stunt . Sorry... but you aren't even Kate Hudson yet, much...
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I'm Not Saying Anything... by The Hot Blog

All I'm saying is that it's a odd feeling watching a career end before your very eyes. There's always television.
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Who'll Grow Accustomed To Her Face? by The Hot Blog

The My Fair Lady remake has been announced now... though they lost Daniel Day-Lewis to Nine . The last time we discussed this, the question was who could play the other roles . Michael Caine and Alfred Molina were mentioned as people that some of you...
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The 48 Hr Diaries... Week One by The Hot Blog

Welcome to MCN's new weekly series, The 48 Hrs. Journals, screenwriter Larry Gross's contemporaneous diary from the set of the classic that launched the buddy/cop craze of the 80s. I expect you will find it interesting, frustrating, and thought...
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Best Review Of Meirelles' Blindness? by The Hot Blog

A Brazilian friend of the site, Cinema em Cena's Pablo Villaca, sent this link, along with a translation into English. The moment is at a screening of Blindness, which is based on José Saramago's novel. And it would be a sweet moment for any filmmaker...
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