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Play It Again – Funny Lady

By Jess Lomas March 19, 2013 Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged terribly. And yes, it takes its name from a famously misquoted Casablanca line (hey, whatever; […]

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Play It Again – Funny Girl

By Jess Lomas March 6, 2013 Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged terribly. And yes, it takes its name from a famously misquoted Casablanca line (hey, whatever; […]

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Trailer Debut: The Guilt Trip

Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand team up as mother and son in the first trailer for Anne Fletcher’s on-the-road comedy The Guilt Trip. Rogen plays Andy Brewster, an inventor, who invites his Jewish mother Joyce (Streisand) with him on a road trip as he tries to flog his environmentally friendly cleaning solution. Joyce hasn’t remarried […]

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Melissa McCarthy sells raunchy road-trip script Tammy

New Line has preemptively acquired a script by Bridesmaids‘ break-out star, recent Emmy winner and future Oscar nominee (we’re calling it!) Melissa McCarthy. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the script – titled Tammy – tells the story of an overweight woman who decides to go on a road trip with her “alcoholic, foul-mouthed, diabetic grandmother” […]

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Little effort – Little Fockers review

Little Fockers – Starring Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro and Teri Polo. Directed by Paul Weitz. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. It’s the holidays, and the third instalment of the Meet the Parents saga has arrived – not unlike the Ghost of Christmas Future – to provide us with a terrifying glimpse at a journey […]

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