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Friday movie roundup – Oct. 22

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

‘Tis the bewitching season, as ye well know. Clint Eastwood’s latest movie, “Hereafter,” is a very slow and boring rumination on the afterlife, while “Paranormal Activity 2″ (review at Film.com) offers more of what “Paranormal Activity” offered, i.e., creepy things happening late at night in a house.

Those of you in Utah, it is at last your lucky day! “My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend,” a funny, surprising, and altogether pleasant romantic comedy written and directed by my old pal Daryn Tufts, is now playing at … I don’t know … a couple local theaters. Google it or something. I don’t have to do everything for you. Those of you outside Utah, it’ll be on Video On Demand later this year.

Also, what about our schools, and why are they terrible? That’s what “Waiting for ‘Superman’” wants to know, documentary-style.

This week at Cinematical: you got your mockery of new trailers, and you got your “What if David Mamet had written ‘RED’?” concept piece. The latter, being in the style of David Mamet, features much asterisked profanity. Which makes it not profanity at all, but merely a few letters and a lot of stars!

This week at Film.com: Are there still differences between print and online critics?; “What’s the Big Deal?” is about “Cool Hand Luke” (requested by many, many, many of you); and “Eric’s Bad Movies” is about “3 Ninjas” (also requested by many, many, many of you, and I will not soon forgive you).

Oh, and now “Movie B.S. with Bayer and Snider” has a Facebook page, I guess.

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If you’re searching for the Mo…

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

If you’re searching for the Movie B.S. page on Facebook, apparently it helps if you include the periods in B.S. We just learned that.

This is true, except now it’s …

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

This is true, except now it’s a half hour. RT @MovieBS: In 2 hours you’re going to be listening to us live on cascadia.fm. Oh yes you are!

@JamesWallace I was just think…

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

@JamesWallace I was just thinking it will be scary to sleep alone tonight, but now I see having a companion doesn’t help either.

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 is a lot…

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 is a lot like the first one, i.e., I make poopy in pants.

@sperling I dunno, it just see…

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

@sperling I dunno, it just seems cursed. Trouble with studios, directors, labor already; next it’ll be a plague of locusts.

It’s official! Martin Freeman …

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

It’s official! Martin Freeman will play Bilbo Baggins in the imaginary HOBBIT film that will never be made!

Neat! Every single person who …

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

Neat! Every single person who regularly attends free movie screenings made a video! http://bit.ly/anlRp8

RT @BrianLynch SAW 3D trailer …

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

RT @BrianLynch SAW 3D trailer tells me “The Traps Come Alive”. In a TOY STORY kinda way? Because that would be adorable.

RT @ErikDavis tough workout at…

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

RT @ErikDavis tough workout at the gym today. my lads and quads and pads and wads are all in bad shape. Need to nurse my trods and nads too.


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