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| worth the popcorn |
| The daily blog about movies worth your popcorn. Casual Monday, Indie Tuesday, Documentary Wednesday, Asian Thursday, Pink Popcorn Friday, Cinema Saturday and Preview Sunday. A movie every day! |
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| Lakeview Terrace |
| 2008-04-27 17:35:12 |
Chris and Lisa move into a new neighborhood. They soon meet their new neighbor Abel, who seems to be a little more involved with the people in his street than the others. He’s an LAPD officer and when they get into an argument, things escalate into something much much bigger....
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| Wedding Daze |
| 2008-04-24 21:37:12 |
After losing the woman of his life, Anderson is convinced he will never find true love again. His best friend tries to get him out of his house and more into the open, but has a hard time trying. When he is getting a little fed up with it, Anderson makes a sarcastic move to [...]...
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| March of the Penguins |
| 2008-04-23 03:40:43 |
Every year, the penguins go on a journey for twenty days to select their mates and make love. After this, the battle with nature begins and while the men stay in the cold to keep the egg warm, the women go on the same journey backwards to get new food for their future kid....
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| Update on the site |
| 2008-04-22 23:32:19 |
Hi everybody,
I’m just posting this to give a small update on the site. I know we have a couple of regular readers and I just want to let you know what’s going on.
Some of you might remember me asking for movie suggestions and some might also remember my post about film-industry.biz. You probably get where [...]...
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| TCON: Prince Caspian |
| 2008-04-19 22:13:02 |
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
When Susan, Peter, Edmund, and Lucy return to Narnia, they find out hundreds of years have passed and King Miraz has taken over. Now they have to find the exiled Prince Caspian to fight the King, but gladly lion Aslan is there to help them....
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| Knocked Up |
| 2008-04-17 20:25:34 |
After getting a promotion, Alison and her sister decide to celebrate by going a night out. In the bar they meet a group of guys and end up drinking with them all night long. The next morning Alison wakes up with Ben, one of the guys from the bar, to discover they had sex the [...]...
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| The business of movies |
| 2008-04-17 09:51:43 |
I’m currently in the middle of launching film-industry.biz. A new site, where I’ll try to keep everyone updated on all the movie industry and business news. If you have a minute, feel free to drop by and have a look.
If you have a film website or blog, you can register it in the film-industry.biz directory.
That’s [...]...
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| Sound and Fury |
| 2008-04-15 20:24:10 |
Heather was born deaf, just like her parents were. Now the question for the parents is, whether to give their deaf kid a cochlear implant or wait for the time she can make the choice herself....
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| Triplettes de Belleville |
| 2008-04-14 21:30:43 |
Madame Souza loves her grandson Champion. She raises him like her own and gets him a tricycle to train for the Tour de France. When Champion is finally ready for the Tour, he gets kidnapped by some men in black, the French mafia. And Madame Souza goes on a journey to find her son....
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| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| 2008-04-13 20:05:12 |
To let five children into his secret chocolate factory, Willy Wonka makes five golden tickets. And when Charlie Bucket finds one of those winning tickets, he is in for the most fantastic day of his life....
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| Ice Age 3 |
| 2008-04-13 07:55:27 |
Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Sid, Manny and Diego are back for the third installment of Ice Age. Not much is known about the plot, so nobody seems to be sure how they got into the time of the dinosaurs. But I still had to share this new trailer, since it just made its way to the [...]...
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| American Teen |
| 2008-04-12 20:29:11 |
Bully and queen Megan, star athlete Colin, artistic outsider Hannah and nerdy Jake. What do they have in common? They’re all in their last year of high school in Warsaw, Indiana. And they’re all struggling with school and life in general....
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| Raising Helen |
| 2008-04-10 20:40:43 |
Helen is living the life she has always wanted: working at a top modeling agency, living in New York city and enjoying life with fashion shows and nights out at the best clubs in town. Everything seems to be going just the way it’s supposed to be, but then she receives a terrible phone call. [...]...
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| Secret Sunshine (Milyang) |
| 2008-04-09 20:21:19 |
Shin-ae just moved to Milyang, a place her new friend Jong says is just like any other. Self proclaimed new friend I must say, since he pretty much starts stalking her from the minute he meets her. Well, it might be a place like any other, but not for Shin-ae. Because when her little boy [...]...
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| Super Size Me |
| 2008-04-08 21:00:54 |
Morgan Spurlock goes on a McDonalds ‘diet’ for 30 days. Monitored by several doctors, he soon finds out the fast food is causing more harm than anyone expected. But the rules are he can’t eat anything that’s not on the McDonalds menu....
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| Before the Devil Knows … |
| 2008-04-07 19:30:57 |
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Two brothers are in desperate need for money, until one of them gets the perfect idea for a victimless crime. The place is insured and nobody will get hurt. But when one of the brothers gets an accomplice to do the job, nothing works out quite like they wanted....
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| March Movie Top 10 |
| 2008-04-06 14:34:52 |
The last days we have been counting the votes and ranked the best rated movies last month. In March our little film top 10 got quite pink in my opinion. I guess the ladies like their Pink Popcorn Friday!
The top spot however, was taken by a casual movie, getting the most votes on our site [...]...
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| The Bucket List |
| 2008-04-04 21:00:32 |
When billionaire Edward Cole finds out he has cancer, he is rushed into his own hospital where he has to share a room. Initially he is annoyed by his sick roommate, but they soon start to bond trough their sickness. And when the doctor tells them about their ending lives, they decide to do the [...]...
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| The Holiday |
| 2008-04-03 21:00:19 |
Amanda, who lives in Los Angeles, has just broken up with her cheating boyfriend. Iris, who lives in England, is also facing some problems with men, when the love of her life is announcing his engagement… with another woman. It’s just before Christmas and they both desperately want to get away for a while. They find [...]...
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| Samaria |
| 2008-04-02 22:11:45 |
Two teenage girls run a prostitution ‘business’ together. One makes the appointments and the other does the job. But when she gets into a fatal accident, the other one goes from making the appointments to doing the actual job. Then, one day, her father finds out and he’s out for revenge....
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| Worth the Popcorn? |
| 2008-04-02 01:09:50 |
We started this blog with the idea of doing a movie every day. But not just a random movie, we had to like it too. Like recommending a movie to your friends. But now we need your help. We need recommendations ourselves.
You might think doing a movie ‘worth the popcorn’ every day is not that [...]...
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| Donnie Darko |
| 2008-03-31 22:40:24 |
Disturbed adolescent Donnie Darko has a new friend, Frank. When he’s sleepwalking, Frank instructs him to do violent acts, like crashing the water piping of his school. Donnie is not sure why Frank makes him do things like this. And why wasn’t he there when a jet engine crashed into his room? Then Frank tells [...]...
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| Blow |
| 2008-03-30 19:37:54 |
Seeing his family struggle for money his whole youth, George Jung plans to make a different life for himself. And he soon finds smuggling weed is going to get it. But times change and the 70’s is all about cocaine. Changing his business model to the white substance, George is making more than he can [...]...
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| Wall-e and Eve |
| 2008-03-29 19:46:25 |
And the crowd went wild! Just kidding. This week some new photos found their way to the web (click here for more). But not only that, since we sneaky put up a Wall-e trailer that wasn’t meant to last month, a new official trailer has been posted. You can skip the first half, it’s about [...]...
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| Theater annoyances |
| 2008-03-28 20:26:13 |
“Tudududumduuuuu, Tudududumduuuuu, Hello Motto!” Someone’s mobile is ringing. I chuckle, that guy must be so embarrassed right now. “Yeah… it’s James..” What? He’s picking up? The guy right behind us casually starts a conversation. When this happens I begin to question my own behavior. The first thing I would do, if I really had to [...]...
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| Music and Lyrics |
| 2008-03-27 20:41:02 |
Alex Fletcher, a former member of the 80’s band Pop, hasn’t really been successful with his solo-career. Therefore, he is still performing with the old hits they had with his band Pop. His manager isn’t giving up on him and arranges a meeting with the successful teen singer Cora Corman. Alex gets the chance to [...]...
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| Joint Security Area |
| 2008-03-27 01:58:08 |
As if the tension between North and South-Korea wasn’t big enough, a firefight takes place in the DMZ (De-Militarized Zone) and two North Korean soldiers get killed. As expected, both camps have their own story. The South claims one of their people got kidnapped and the North says they were ambushed by the South. But [...]...
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| The Corporation |
| 2008-03-25 21:21:19 |
“In law, a corporation is a person. On analysis, a corporation is … a psychopath?” In the American legal system, the corporation is legally a person. But since it practically isn’t, this documentary takes a closer look at the psychological behavior of a corporation and its impact on us, people....
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| Little Miss Sunshine |
| 2008-03-24 03:25:24 |
All Olive wants is to win the Sunshine">Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant. But to do so, the whole family has to get to California in time. And since this isn’t the ordinary family, it is not as easy as it sounds. Uncle Frank just tried to commit suicide. Grandpa Edwin, also Olive’s coach, is a [...]...
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| The Happening |
| 2008-03-22 21:15:52 |
In the beginning of 2007, M. Night Shyamalan went to Hollywood to sell his new script called ‘The Green Effect.’ But since there wasn’t enough interest, he went back home and rewrote it to ‘The Happening.’ The script got greenlit by 20th Century Fox and a new disaster movie was born. To avoid spoiling the [...]...
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| Horton Hears a Who! |
| 2008-03-21 19:58:42 |
There’s sound coming from a speck. Horton is sure of it. Meanwhile, the people in Whoville are experiencing mayor earthquakes. And this is when the Mayor of Whoville finds out they are living on that tiny speck in a different world. No one believes him, except Horton, who told it himself of course. Together they [...]...
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| Something’s Gotta Give |
| 2008-03-20 20:41:52 |
Harry Sanborn just loves dating younger women and the way this is making him feel; charming, irresistible and young. Sometimes a little bit too young… When making love with his 30 years younger girlfriend Marin, he suffers a heart attack. And since they were spending the weekend in her mother’s beach house, he has to stay [...]...
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| Happiness (Haengbok) |
| 2008-03-19 20:59:07 |
When Young-su realizes his alcoholism is getting seriously out of hand, he moves to a sanatorium to treat his illness. Forgetting his partying lifestyle, he meets a girl and they eventually decide to move to a quiet place together. But the longer Young-su lives in this deserted place, the more he starts to long for [...]...
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| My Flesh and Blood |
| 2008-03-18 22:20:18 |
Somehow, Susan Tom ended up adopting 11 special needs children. In this documentary we observe her and the children for one year. What follows, is a touching but honest story about the family. Some are sick, very sick. Some are angry about their past and they certainly don’t like each other all the time. But [...]...
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| Cashback |
| 2008-03-17 20:53:19 |
Ben is left heartbroken after he and his girlfriend Suzy break up. Something happens in his body and now he is unable to sleep. To do something useful with all the additional hours he gets, he takes a night job at the local supermarket. This is where he meets some new friends, who all have [...]...
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| The Talented Mr. Ripley |
| 2008-03-16 19:49:02 |
Tom Ripley meets the wealthy father of Dicky Greenleaf. He wants his playboy son to come back from Italy and gives Tom $1,000 for doing so. But when Tom gets there, he falls in love with Dicky and his wife Marge. Actually, he gets obsessed and eventually just wants to become Dicky Greenleaf. And Dicky [...]...
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| Righteous Kill |
| 2008-03-15 19:01:51 |
No, this isn’t a picture of two old pals sharing some tunes. It’s the new collaboration of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in the crime drama ‘Righteous Kill’.
The story revolves around David Fisk and Thomas Cowan, two veteran cops ready for retirement. Forced to work together, they have to track down a serial killer, [...]...
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| A post writers’ strike drought? |
| 2008-03-14 19:03:20 |
Is it even possible? A movie drought? In the games industry it’s quite common. Development cycles of 2 years are normal. So during the holidays there’s a flush of good games and in the new year there can be a drought for a couple of months.
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| There’s Something About Mary |
| 2008-03-13 20:00:40 |
After Mary decides to ask Ted to the prom as her date, Ted starts to develop a major crush on Mary. Unfortunately he gets into a really awkward accident, that involves a painful zipper experience, and therefore isn’t able to take Mary to the prom. Thirteen years later he realizes he still has a crush [...]...
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| Spirited Away Rerun |
| 2008-03-13 00:16:06 |
It was one of those exiting days. At that time, I was one of those nerdy collectors (now I’m just nerdy). From Japan, one of the crowns on my DVD gift set collection would come in. The Spirited Away Limited Collector’s Edition. Numbered and everything! Little did I know, I would sell it the following [...]...
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