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They say that the cure for love will make me happy and safe forever. And I've always believed them.
Until now.
Now everything has changed. Now, I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years suffocated by a lie.
There was a time when love was the most important thing in the world. People would go to the end of the earth to find it. They would tell lies for it. Even kill for it.
Then, at last, they found the cure.
If love were a disease, would you take the cure. Watch the trailer and decide.They say that the cure for love will make me happy and safe forever. And I've... more
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This week's Rotten Tomatoes reviews Kick-Ass, Death at a Funeral, and The Joneses. Plus, we run down the Top 5 Alternative Energy Sources in Movies and Brooke Shields stops in to tell us about her Five Favorite Films.
The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30 e/p on Current TV. From reviews of the newest releases to commentary on cult favorites and movie trends, each episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a fast-paced, comedic journey through the week in cinema.
For more from the Rotten Tomatoes Show: http://rottentomatoesshow.comThis week's Rotten Tomatoes reviews Kick-Ass, Death at a Funeral, and The... more
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The Rotten Tomatoes Show names all this weekend's highlights in new releases for both DVD and theaters. Movie-lovers can purchase Crazy Heart, The Lovely Bones, and Avatar.
If films on the big screen are more your speed, check out The Back-Up Plan, The Losers, and Paper Man. If you do, don't forget to submit a webcam review to get on the show!
The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30 e/p on Current TV. From reviews of the newest releases to commentary on cult favorites and movie trends, each episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a fast-paced, comedic journey through the week in cinema.
For more from the Rotten Tomatoes Show: http://rottentomatoesshow.comThe Rotten Tomatoes Show names all this weekend's highlights in new releases for... more
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Welcome to our first of ten rounds where Brett and Ellen take the time to make their own picks for this year's Academy Awards. Up first, their picks for Best Supporting Actor, which includes:
-Matt Damon in Invictus
-Woody Harrelson in The Messengers
-Christopher Plummer in The Last Station
-Stanley Tucci in The Lovely Bones
-Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds
Join us tomorrow as we look at Best Actress in a Supporting Role. You can get all of our Oscars related goodness at Current.com/Oscars.
Welcome to our first of ten rounds where Brett and Ellen take the time to make... more
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Confused how to spend this four-day weekend? Well, one day should be spend in service (i.e. Monday) while the rest should be spent in frivolity and running around like sugar-frenzied maniacs. And going to movies, of course.
Join Brett and Ellen as they give you a weekend peek...end for next week's Rotten Tomatoes Show and you can see our DVDo's and DVDon'ts here.
-The Book of Eli follows a post-apocalyptic wasteland with Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman.
-The Spy Next Door starts with prime Jackie Chan, then shows us the current version.
-Fish Tank is a coming-of-age tale mixed with Michael Fassbender's creepy charm.
If you see either of these films, upload your review for next week's Rotten Tomatoes Show by Monday at midnight. If we use your review, you get on TV and $100 via PayPal.
Also out this weekend:
-The Lovely Bones opens nationwide.
Confused how to spend this four-day weekend? Well, one day should be spend in... more
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Now that Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones is finally opening wide, should you commit to this ode to living dead girls or just wait for another Tolkien adaptation?
Find out as Brett, Ellen and our webcam reviewers crack the spines and examine what works (Stanley Tucci) and what doesn't (everything else) in this film adaptation of a book you probably read a few years ago to impress a girl.
Now that Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones is finally opening wide, should you... more
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Tonight on The Rotten Tomatoes Show, we've got a brand new year and a brand new show! To kick it off, we'll be reviewing The Lovely Bones, which is Peter Jackson's adaptation of the Alice Seabold novel.
That said, here's a glance at who we're using on the show tonight and their full reviews uploaded to Current.
Mike McGranaghan
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Gina Wagner
Want to be part of the show next week? Then go out and see Daybreakers, Youth in Revolt or Leap Year and upload your review to Current by Sunday at midnight.
Tonight on The Rotten Tomatoes Show, we've got a brand new year and a brand... more
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Happy (almost) New Year, folks! The Rotten Tomatoes Show returns next Thursday, which means we need your webcam reviews. But let's get on with what you can catch this weekend if you haven't already.
-The White Ribbon is Michael Haneke's bleak yet argubally "pretty" film about pre-World War I Germany. I caught it at the New York Film Festival and thought it was...well...not good. [NY/LA]
-The Lovely Bones is Peter Jackson's take on Heaven and Mark Whalberg emoting. [NY/LA]
-The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus has Tom Waits as God, the last performance of Heath Ledger and Terry Gilliam.
If you see those three films, leave us your webcam review by Sunday 1/3 at midnight to possibly get on next Thursday's Rotten Tomatoes Show.
As for what else comes out in time for the new year:
-The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond is like when you said, I think I'm like Tennessee Williams. Like this film. Which is written by him. [NY/LA]
-That's it!
Happy (almost) New Year, folks! The Rotten Tomatoes Show returns next Thursday,... more
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If it's Friday and almost quittin' time for us here on the West Coast, that means you need a peek at this weekend's new releases. So let Brett and Ellen be your guide while the full gamut is unleashed below!
-Invictus is a film about rugby, Oscars and inspiring motivational speeches from Morgan Freeman.
-The Princess and the Frog has Disney's latest animated song and dance routine.
-The Lovely Bones is Peter Jackson's adaptation of the book about a dead girl who tries to fight crime or...NY/LA only? No where else until January? Sucks.
-My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done can be described as: WERNER HERZOG + DAVID LYNCH= AWESOME.
-The Slammin' Salmon has the Broken Lizard crew try their hand at Waiting...
-A Single Man is the story of a teacher who is lucky enough to be in a Tom Ford movie.
-The Vicious Kind is playing in L.A. before Sundance. Huh.
And for once, we don't want your webcam reviews for any of the films opening this weekend. Instead, we want your AWARDS for our First Year-Endies Award Show next Thursday. What do you have to do?
Upload a short video describing your personal award for a film released this year, give us a clap and Bob's your uncle! Do it by Sunday [1213] at midnight.
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The Auteurs asked a few questions of Peter Jackson, through which Glenn Kenny acted as conduit to the Internet.
You can check those out here.The Auteurs asked a few questions of Peter Jackson, through which Glenn Kenny acted as... more
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In the mid-'70s, when women (among them Claudia Weill, Joan Micklin Silver, Joan Darling) were getting the chance to direct mainstream movies, Pauline Kael cautioned against expecting great things right away. Filmmakers needed a chance to learn and develop, she said, and there was always a chance they might not, or might simply become proficient hacks. It didn't matter, she was quoted as saying, whether there was a king or a queen on top of the garbage heap.
Daphne Merkin's profile of Nancy Meyers in the New York Times Magazine a few weeks back was an attempt to claim that a Garbage Queen was a step forward. The trouble with the piece, as with almost every plight-of-women-in-film article, is that the relentless focus on Hollywood winds up saying that the women directors working outside the mainstream don't exist....
Thinking of the women who made films in the last year, I (Charles Taylor) came up with Claire Denis, Lucrecia Martel, Agnès Varda, Lynn Shelton, So Yong Kim, Catherine Breillat, Karyn Kusama, Havana Marking, Anne Fontaine, Drew Barrymore and Andrea Arnold. I'm sure I'm leaving out plenty of others. And that list doesn't include other contemporary women directors like Sofia Coppola, Nicole Holofcener, Lynne Ramsay, Barbara Kopple, Darnell Martin, Stacy Cochran, Kasi Lemmons, Gillian Armstrong, Catherine Hardwicke, Allison Anders, Lynne Stopkewich, Kimberly Peirce and Patty Jenkins.
Those names carry their own untold stories, the years between projects (during which many got by on TV work), the films that didn't get released, the projects that went to more established directors (to think we lost Lynne Ramsay's "The Lovely Bones" only to get Peter Jackson's disaster). But it's not a list you come up with if your idea of a movie is limited to what's at the multiplex.
What's so insidious about making Nancy Meyers Hollywood's little-engine-that-could is that her films present perhaps a particularly retrograde notion of womanhood..."In the mid-'70s, when women (among them Claudia Weill, Joan Micklin Silver, Joan... more
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Even though I have yet to read Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones," I cannot assert that Peter Jackson's adaptation of the same has completely turned me away from the novel. In fact, I now want to see how Sebold handles the fantasy elements and if the novel has as many confounding tone shifts as the film.
To get the full review of Peter Jackson's adaption of Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones," follow the link:
http://www.cafemagazine.com/index.php/reviews/116-1001/606-caught-in-the-in-betweenEven though I have yet to read Alice Sebold's "The Lovely Bones," I... more
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Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox join forces with bloggers, comedians, students and citizen critics to review "The Lovely Bones."
The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30 e/p on Current TV. From reviews of the newest releases to commentary on cult favorites and movie trends, each episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a fast-paced, comedic journey through the week in cinema.
For more from the Rotten Tomatoes Show: http://rottentomatoesshow.com
For more about movies from Current: http://current.com/moviesBrett Erlich and Ellen Fox join forces with bloggers, comedians, students and citizen... more
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Happy New Year!
We want your webcam reviews for The White Ribbon, The Lovely Bones and the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus this weekend for the Rotten Tomatoes Show. Any reviewers who make it on the show will be paid $100 via paypal.
We need concise comments about the movies for our editors. Don't know what that means? Here's how we use your reviews on the show:
http://current.com/items/91659070_brothers-reviewed.htm
IMPORTANT: All reviews must be submitted by midnight on Sunday 1/3
Once you’ve registered as a member of current.com you have two options for submitting your review.
1. Click on the Webcam tab and click to record a 1-minute review.
2. Record a longer review using a digital camera or video program, then click on Upload.
You may cut down your review but don't cut it too tight or edit in any pictures or videos, if you're a minor we can't pay you and we’ll need a release from your parents. We only pay the uploader, not based on the number of people in your review.
We're on Twitter: @current_movies
We've got a blog: blogs.current.com/movies
If you have any questions or problems with your upload, email jlichman AT current DOT comHappy New Year!
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The two directors sit down to discuss emerging technology, their own films and what they'd do different in the digital age.
Spoiler: Titanic would've been a lot smaller on set if Cameron made it today.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/227737?digg=1The two directors sit down to discuss emerging technology, their own films and what... more
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Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox take a peek at what's coming up this weekend including The Princess and the Frog, Invictus, & A Single Man. Also, new on DVD, is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Public Enemies, & The Cove.
The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30 e/p on Current TV. From reviews of the newest releases to commentary on cult favorites and movie trends, each episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a fast-paced, comedic journey through the week in cinema.
For more from the Rotten Tomatoes Show visit: http://rottentomatoesshow.com
For more about movies from Current: http://current.com/movies.
The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30 e/p on Current TV. From reviews of the newest releases to commentary on cult favorites and movie trends, each episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a fast-paced, comedic journey through the week in cinema.
For more from the Rotten Tomatoes Show: http://rottentomatoesshow.com
For more about movies from Current: http://current.com/moviesBrett Erlich and Ellen Fox take a peek at what's coming up this weekend including... more
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Long before the Lord of the Rings trilogy vaulted Peter Jackson into the record books, he seemed eager to challenge his audiences, depicting puppet sex and gore in Meet the Feebles and flesh-eating aliens in Bad Taste. He even introduced Kate Winslet to the world as a deranged teenager who bludgeons a woman to death with a hammer in Heavenly Creatures.
But at a press conference last weekend, Jackson invoked his sense of morality when questioned about his decision to excise a crucial—albeit, wrenching—plot point from his adaptation of The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold’s blockbuster 2002 novel about a 14 year old who is raped, murdered, and dismembered by her next-door neighbor. In Jackson’s film, Susie Salmon doesn’t get raped. The murder happens off-screen. And though her family falls apart in its grief, Jackson chose to cut scenes of her mother’s adulterous affair with the crime’s investigator.
“To make Lovely Bones without the rape,” said UCLA’s Richard Walter, a fan of the novel, “is like making Titanic and leaving out the iceberg.”
Speaking to a crowd of journalists, Jackson explained in a measured, matter-of-fact tone that some things—like the depraved acts conjured by Sebold—just don’t belong on a 60-foot screen. He wanted a PG-13 rating. He wanted his own 13-year-old daughter to see the film. He didn’t aim to make a film for the fans of the novel.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-09/sanitizing-the-bones/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsC3Long before the Lord of the Rings trilogy vaulted Peter Jackson into the record books,... more
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