September 2008

This is the coolest news of the week. Our old touring buddies from the Ultimate Fakebook days have invited my new band, The Dead Girls, to play two shows at the last minute on their current U.S. tour. Motion City Soundtrack are on tour now supporting their new record, “Even If It Kills Me,” and we’ll […]

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Fresh off of their Best Picture winner “No Country for Old Men,” Joel and Ethan Coen return to the screen with a pitch-black comedy called “Burn After Reading,” starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton, John Malkovich, Richard Jenkins, and the lynchpin of the whole movie, Frances McDormand. Are the Coen brothers up to their […]

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Michael Caine has got loose lips apparently, becuase no one else at Warner Brothers (certainly not “The Dark Knight” director Christopher Nolan, who’s on vacation) is talking about a recent Caine interview that supposedly reveals the studio’s plans for the next installment in the now red-hot “Batman” franchise. They may not even have a script […]

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For the on-camera review with clips from the movie, click here. Before the critical triumph of the surprisingly warm-hearted black comedy “Fargo” in 1996, Joel and Ethan Coen’s critics had accused the brothers’ movies of being cold and detached—exercises in cinematic virtuosity, for sure, but lacking empathy for their characters and instead reveling in any […]

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Burn After Reading

by Eric Melin on September 11, 2008

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Joel and Ethan Coen take 90 minutes to build their brand of absurdity to a fever pitch and name Clooney, Pitt, McDormand, and Malkovich as co-conspirators.

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Columbia Pictures third-highest grossing film of all time is “Ghostbusters.” So they’d be stupid not to make a sequel, right? Hmmm…Well, the writing has begun, and “the plan is for the film to reunite the stars of the original ‘Ghostbusters’ films, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson,” according to Variety. The catch? The […]

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It’s our third user-submitted Top 10 here at Scene-Stealers, and it comes from sitegoer Randall Schrope, who lives in Washington Township, New Jersey. Randall’s got a thing for actors gone crazy, and below is his excellent list, accompanied by clips from each movie. If you have a list you’d like to submit, simply email it to […]

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Since “Tropic Thunder” was released three weeks ago, there hasn’t been much in the way of quality mainstream films in the theaters, which is good news for Ben Stiller’s edgy comedy. Having spent three weeks on top of the weekend box office chart, it’s now tallied up over $87 million. It’s also good news for […]

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Top 10 Political Movies

by Eric Melin on September 2, 2008

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Last week I was flipping through the channels on TV when I came across Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. I thought I’d stick around until it got stale and typical, but instead found my self glued to the tube for 45 minutes! After it was over, I realized: This is the […]

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