sunsetgun.typepad.com - 12/29/2008
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2008, the year of death, decay and the wisdom of the beautiful loser. The year movie stars examined their own mortality and fading beauty via their on-screen personas (Brad Pitt, Mickey Rourke and Clint Eastwood, who managed to be as cute as Sarah Silverman while delivering ...
thedailybeast.com - 12/30/2008
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In a private text message obtained by The
Daily Beast, Mickey Rourke bashes Sean Penn his chief...
rival in the Oscar race as a "homophobe" and an "average" actor. Whistleblower has learned from several entertainment industry sources that Mickey Rourke ...
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Rourke Trashes Penn
brightlightsfilm.blogspot.com - 1/2/2009
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I've survived the family Xmas, and what saved
us was the power of the movies. This got...
me to thinking about all the best dysfunctional family holiday films. I don't mean the ones where everyone's just got some cute quirk or shouts a lot, I'm talking ...
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A Double Dysfunctional Mickey Xmas
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My Top Ten Movies Of 2008
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... Rourke's Randy, or rendering either as a pitiful joke. But it's mostly because of Rourke's naked, heart-wrenching, art-imitating-life performance. This is blood, sweat and tears (quite literally) on a whole other inspired level. I don’t take the Oscars too seriously, but I swear, if he doesn't get nominated for The Wrestler, I'll ... I don't know ... take a cue from the movie, crank up "Sweet Child O' Mine" and start crying.
Read my entire list here.
--posted by Kim
2008: THE LO-O-O-ONG GOODBYE
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... Underappreciated Films, Doc of the Year and Top 10 of 2008) HARRY TUTTLE’S LINKS THROUGH A CRISIS IN FILM CRITICISM CRITIC WATCH- WHORES OF THE YEAR Hollywood Bitchslap’s 10 Best and WORST of 2008 (Boll-Free) CRITICAL MASS: Sean Burns and Matt Prigge discuss the films of 2008. Film Critic.com’s WHAT WE LEARNED AT THE MOVIES (2008 Edition) MICHAEL GUILLEN’S TEN FAVORITE INTERVIEWS OF 2008 KIM MORGAN’S TOP 10 JAMES ROCCHI’S TOP 10 PAUL CLARK on FAVORITE 2008 ...
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