Book Review: "Tales From Development Hell: The Greatest Movies Never Made?"
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The movies that end up in this purgatory not because the aren't potentially great ideas but because of rewrites, casting or location issues and various production woes. Hollywood, it seems, can be a very dangerous place to make a movie! In his new book ...
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Mixed Reviews for 'Wanderlust' in the UK
Gather.com
Now that the film is in cinemas across the waters in the UK, reviews are in with the British opinion. Could the already published reviews of US film critics have influenced the UK opinion? Metro.com offers a mediocre review of the film.
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Book Review: The Comedy Is Finished by Donald E. Westlake
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
... begun by the prolific writer in the late 1970s, it was withdrawn from publisher submission when 1983's King of Comedy was released - ostensibly because the book's central premise (the kidnapping of a famous comedian) was too similar to the movie.
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Book Review: Sadie Walker is Stranded: A Zombie Novel by Madeleine Roux
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Sure, Milla Jovovich is stunning in the Resident Evil movies, but her character there is more a superhero than the girl next door. I'm much more likely to identify with the flawed heroes of The Walking Dead and Night of the Living Dead.
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50/50 - movie review
The Vine
That's fine when women are involved: the bumper book of movie clichés tells us that women will express their feelings at the drop of a hat. Men, on the other hand, need a bit more prodding to get them to open up about how much they love their buddies ...
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Book Review: The Hammer Vault by Marcus Hearn
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
But even with my love for those classic monster movies, I've never really focused on film history. Every now and then I'll watch a documentary or read a book on some of the history involved, but that's about it. So when I was given an opportunity to ...
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Reel Reviews: History will never forget even if film does
Vernon Morning Star
Near the beginning of the film, this problem becomes clear by way of the audience discovering who is real, who is a memory, who is a hallucination and we, like Thatcher, must face some sad truths. However, what isn't clear, is whether or not this point ...
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Lindsay Lohan's 'SNL' Comeback Gets Mixed Reviews
MTV.com
"The paddling to Comeback Island would be more believable if Lohan didn't need a teleprompter to remember the plots of her own movies," tweeted @Shinangovani. A "Real Housewives of Disney" sketch, during which Lohan threw a mean right cross as a ...
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