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90210 2.10 "To Thine Own Self Be True" Recap

18 November 2009 4:11 PM, PST | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »

Last night, we said goodbye to a beloved Bh 90210 alum. Plus, Jasper officially landed on my Ish List by becoming 90210's answer to Oliver from The O.C.

Jackie Taylor, "Perfect Mom"

Silver freaks out as they take Jackie into the hospital. When Kelly comes, they find out that Jackie is not long for this world and when asked to see her, Silver accepts while Kelly stays behind. Later at home, Kelly pampers Silver, who stayed at the hospital with Jackie, but Silver doesn't want pampering. She wants Kelly to come visit Jackie before it's too late. Kelly doesn't want to budge, because of all the bad baggage between her and her mother. Silver tells Kelly that she will have to let bygones be bygones or she will be haunted for it. Kelly still isn't going for it.

Later when Kelly stops by to pick up Silver, she sees that »

- Mark O. Estes

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PGA Honors Precious.

18 November 2009 3:18 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Jose here with some award news.

Continuing to establish itself as a front runner in the awards race, Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire, has been chosen by the Producers Guild of America to receive its prestigious Stanley Kramer Award for illuminating provocative social issues in an accessible and elevating fashion.

This award not only confirms the movie will be one of the ten chosen by the PGA for its Producer of the Year award, but bodes well for its chances of getting even more Oscar attention.

The Academy simply loves social issues (remember 2005?) and Kramer (who directed and produced Inherit the Wind and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner among others) was an icon in this aspect, even if the quality of the films he made didn't amount to much artistically. Stanley's films always talked about things we wanted to ignore. He taught us so much about ourselves »

- Jose

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Watch This: Movie Titles That Slip Into the Dialogue

5 November 2009 2:32 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Watch a lot of movies, and you'll get conditioned to look for that special moment when it all comes together and someone utters the words that also happen to make up the title of the movie. Sometimes it's inevitable -- if the film is titled after a character's name, or the flick's main theme, then it's going to make its way into the film. A lot. Other times, writers cleverly slip it in as that tongue-in-cheek addition for the audience's amusement.

Having a little fun with movie clips, Videogum has whipped up a mosaic of scenes where characters say the film of the movie in the film. From Katharine Hepburn's distinct voice stating: "Guess who's coming to dinner?" to Dances with Wolves, to things being "gone, baby ... gone" and Sharon Stone writing about "basic instincts," there's a good range of those little pithy and inevitable moments. Most of them are all-too-brief, »

- Monika Bartyzel

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The Forgotten: Gorgeous Lifelike Color By Deluxe

29 October 2009 6:58 AM, PDT | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »

 

Gus Van Sant's Psycho remake is always going to divide opinion, those who see it as a conceptual art statement being able to argue, quite reasonably, that its failure to do the things Hitchcock's original does—create a consistent story world, stylized but credible characters, a sense of doom, suspense—is exactly the proof needed of its success as a conceptual artifact, dramatically redundant yet stubbornly existent.

Would the same people say the same thing for Edward Dmytryk's The Blue Angel, a faithful yet utterly arbitrary remake of Josef Von Sternberg's Der blaue Engel. Sternberg's production, Germany's first sound film, is so iconic and so utterly of its time—it marks the beginning of the Marlene myth, as well as the end of silence—that any kind of remake seems like an exercise in redundancy, like the Coens's joke proposal to re-shoot Stanley Kramer's well-intentioned liberal »

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Chris Rock Finds A Friend

6 October 2009 12:20 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Oprah Winfrey makes her second News appearance this morning with the story that her Harpo Films production company has joined forces with Lionsgate and picked up the rights to Will You Be My Black Friend? as a star vehicle for Chris Rock.Representing part of a mini-trend of films based on magazine articles (along with Darren Aronofsky's Heist), Black Friend stems from a GQ story by Devin Friedman about his dorky attempts to add some colour to his (entirely white) peer group. The main thrust was obviously humorous, but there was a serious point to it about the difficulty of stepping outside your own social demographic once you reach a certain point in your life.This obviously has the potential to be horribly crass, so it'll need to tread carefully. But the idea of a kind of reverse Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is fun, and the presence of »

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