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The Poppy-Fields Movie Couch Of Fame: The Firm
May 8, 2017 – 9:43 AM | 8 Comments
The Poppy-Fields Movie Couch Of Fame: <em>The Firm</em>

Not just screwing, readers. All sorts of intimate acts, voting and whatnot.

Poppy-Fields Movie Couch Of Fame: A Few Good Men
September 9, 2014 – 12:48 PM | 26 Comments
Poppy-Fields Movie Couch Of Fame: <em>A Few Good Men</em>

And it turns out that not one, but two readers can handle the truth!

Elsewhere In The Tomatoverse: You Can’t Handle The Tooth
January 31, 2014 – 6:51 PM | One Comment
Elsewhere In The Tomatoverse: You Can’t Handle The Tooth

Crazy Hearts: Nashville‘s okay, though.

War of the Worlds: Close Encounters, Take Two
April 30, 2013 – 11:32 PM | 9 Comments
<I>War of the Worlds</I>: <I>Close Encounters</I>, Take Two

A fantastic two hours; I didn’t get bored once. I like Tom Cruise so much more when he’s playing a borderline douche, as he does here.

Tomato Nation Read-Along #13: Poll
November 8, 2011 – 10:29 AM | 17 Comments
Tomato Nation Read-Along #13: Poll

It’s that time again, boys and girls. We’ve got two books about religion from the last poll, plus a bunch of other goodies to choose from; celebrate Election Day by voting for our next book!
 

The Crushed Film Festival presents: Taps
May 5, 2011 – 4:30 PM | 18 Comments
The Crushed Film Festival presents: <I>Taps</I>

The Movie: Taps
The Crush Object: Timothy Hutton
The Story: Brian Moreland (Hutton), a rising senior at Bunker Hill Military Academy, has just gotten a promotion to head cadet; he even got to sip brandy and shoot …

Serpico
February 25, 2010 – 10:56 AM | 36 Comments
<I>Serpico</I>

It seems like more than a few seventies movies have lines of dialogue in which girls swoon over Al Pacino. A quick search only revealed the one, the girl in Saturday Night Fever who sighs …

Support Local Biz: October 15, 2008
October 15, 2008 – 10:53 AM | 4 Comments

The first installment of a mini-movie series about the works of Oliver Stone is now live at the Museum of the Moving Image website.   Co-produced by Kevin B. Lee and Matt Zoller Seitz, the …

Tropic Thunder
August 17, 2008 – 10:39 PM | 26 Comments
<I>Tropic Thunder</I>

Tropic Thunder seemed almost guaranteed to disappoint, because I couldn’t wait to see it and really wanted to love it.It didn’t disappoint, and I did love it, but not for the reasons I’d expected to.
The …