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Alison Pill Of 'The Newsroom' Mistakenly Tweets Topless Photo
09/13/2012
It seems that Alison Pill, 26, is just as clumsy with Twitter in real life as her character, Maggie Jordan, is with office furniture on HBO's The Newsroom, which also stars Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, Olivia Munn and Sam Waterston.
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RECAP: Aaron Sorkin's 'The Newsroom' Covers BP Oil Spill
06/25/2012
While HBO's The Newsroom, from highly acclaimed TV producer and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, nabbed an impressive 2.1 million viewers for its first episode, the reviews have not been so kind. (Check out our review here).
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The Newsroom
06/25/2012
At some point in his mid-to-late teens, Aaron Sorkin first feasted his eyes on Network, Sidney Lumet’s seminal, scathing, satirical attack on corporate media and its crass commercialization of what was once a revered institution driven by a sacred oath to honestly and impartially protect democracy by uncovering secrecy and exposing scandal.
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Harry Brown
05/22/2010
Setting itself against the backdrop of Britain's youth crime epidemic, with a venerable, aging icon (Sir Michael Caine) at it's center as a peaceable man with a violent past, Harry Brown has invited comparisons to Clint Eastwood's sleeper hit Gran Torino.
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Hugo
11/28/2011
Martin Scorsese making a kid’s movie in 3D starring the guy from Borat sounds more like a nightmare world’s April Fool’s prank than a Thanksgiving family offering at the multiplex. Yet, here we find ourselves, where the man most children would know as the guy who directed those movies where the burglar from Home Alone swears a lot looks to get his enchantment on, and in the process becomes the latest big name director to wholeheartedly embrace the dreaded 3D.
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Cars 2 Blu-ray
11/05/2011
I’ve always been wary of the switch to computer animation from traditional animation. I guess I’m just too much of a sucker for The Lion King. But if anyone can persuade me otherwise, it’s the folks at Pixar.
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Our Idiot Brother
08/30/2011
Damn that Paul Rudd. Is anyone more believable as a beloved relative? What began in 1995's Clueless as the dorky-but-loving counterweight to Alicia Silverstone's ditzy-but-lovable high school princess has evolved, through iterations of brotherliness (Role Models), helplessness (I Love You, Man) and deadpan-dependent drollness (The 40-year-old Virgin), into a 16-years-later apotheosis called Our Idiot Brother, directed by frequent Rudd collaborator David Wain.
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Shutter Island
02/23/2010
Shutter Island, based on the 2003 mind-bending page-turner by Dennis Lehane, could be called a standard piece of genre filmmaking, rife with misdirection, plot twists, and clichéd dialogue. But because Martin Scorsese directed it, and it stars his favorite new muse Leonardo DiCaprio, it will almost certainly be held against his last work, the fantastic The Departed.
