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UK Censors Ban a Really Rotten Horror Flick

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2008-03-01 00:00:00 by Scott Weinberg in Cinematical
...flicks of the past ten years. It's basically a distillation of all the "torture porn" arguments you've been hearing over the last few years -- and it makes stuff like Hostel 2 and Saw 3 look like they were directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It's not the flick's moronically over-the-top violence that bugs me; it's that the movie has no point at all...
 
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A Flick You Missed: The Amateurs

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2008-03-01 00:00:00 by Scott Weinberg in Cinematical
...Flick You Missed . Catchy title, eh? This is where the Cinematical writers will offer up a mini-mini-review (more of a reminder) on a flick that nobody really saw ... but we really liked. The flick that inspired such a simplistic idea? Mike Traeger's The Amateurs (aka The Moguls ), which played at a whole bunch of film festivals before...
 
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Rapaport Gets Release For Superhero Flick Special, Reveals Sequel Talk

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2008-03-17 14:55:12 by Larry Carroll in MTV Movies Blog
...flick you wont soon be able to get out of your head. Rapaport plays a pathetic Los Angeles meter maid by day and comic geek by night, who signs up for an experimental drug trial, and then begins taking on super powers as a side effect of the pills. But as hes running through walls, flying and jumping off buildings, one question emerges: Is it...
 
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It's not a chick flick, but it is a damn good movie

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2008-11-23 07:53:00 by Edward Copeland in Edward Copeland on Film
...flick. There are merely good movies, bad movies and those in between and Terms of Endearment is a very good movie and if you disagree as astronaut Garrett Breedlove so memorably says, "You need a lot of drinks." Not to break the ice, but to kill the bug you've got up your ass. Let's get this chick flick nonsense out of the way quickly so we...
 
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Is Vantage Point A Gimmick Flick? The Stars Respond

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2008-02-25 21:46:01 by Larry Carroll in MTV Movies Blog
...flick. Ladies and gentleman, the gimmick movie From William Castles electrifying publicity stunts to Johnny Depps real-clock Nick of Time to the simulated drive-in of Grindhouse, theyre fun, theyre different, and quite possibly a bit stupid. So, with Vantage Point now in theaters, the question is obvious: Can we enjoy it, without feeling so...
 
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Alison Lohman Replaces Ellen Page in Raimi's New 'Hell' Flick

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2008-03-04 00:00:00 by Scott Weinberg in Cinematical
...flick in many a moon: Drag Me to Hell is what it's called. Then a few days ago, we learned that Ms. Page's schedule was way too booked with other stuff, so the horror flick is what had to go. Oh well, Page's loss looks to be Alison Lohman's gain According to Variety , production on Drag Me to Hell will be delayed only two weeks, which gives...
 
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27 Dresses - the 'chick flick alert' review

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2008-03-25 22:39:00 by Matt A in DARKMATTERS - The Mind Of Matt
...flick territory that they might not even let you in to see 27 Dresses unless you are either female or have a date on your arm So step up likely love interest Jane (the lovely Katherine Greys Anatomy Heigl) shes a total babe, yet somehow has managed to become a perpetual bridesmaid and never the bride. She even has the 27 variously hideous...
 
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I have seen the future of the chick flick...

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2008-04-09 12:20:59 by Glenn Kenny in In The Company Of Glenn
...flick. And no, I'm not gonna get into the various fallacies on which the phrase "chick flick" is built, as my time and interest is limited. After chronicling the travails of two of the genres warhorsesEphron and Hoganand tucking in an inane observation from Jerry Bruckheimer, Cieply notes that The Devil Wear Prada , a film merely two years...
 
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I have seen the future of the chick flick...

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2008-04-09 12:20:59 by Glenn Kenny in In The Company Of Glenn
...flick. And no, I'm not gonna get into the various fallacies on which the phrase "chick flick" is built, as my time and interest is limited. After chronicling the travails of two of the genres warhorses???Ephron and Hogan???and tucking in an inane observation from Jerry Bruckheimer, Cieply notes that The Devil Wear Prada , a film merely two...
 
Tags: chick flick, prada, prada -esque, devil wears prada, julia, career woman, julia child, devil, genre afloat