Tag Archives: movies

Jackass 3D Screens At The LA Eagle

The producers of Jackass 3D gave a sneak preview to some patrons of the Los Angeles Eagle last week. Cast member Steve-O told Vanity Fair that all the Jackass movies are not-so-subtle attacks on homophobia. We always thought it was funny to force a heterosexual MTV generation to deal with all of our thongs and homoerotic humor. In many ways, …

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Seat Defenders

Local NYC news was outside a Times Square theater last night where folks from a company called Seat Defenders were hawking plastic sacks intended to protect moviegoers from bedbugs. $17.95 for a package of 12 seat covers. One Times Square theater closed for two days over the summer to fumigate after patrons complained of being covered with bedbug bites.

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Tired Old Queen At The Movies #52

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1950 thriller Stage Fright, starring Jane Wyman, Michael Wilding, Richard Todd and Marlene Dietrich.

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Story Of Prom-Denied Gay Mississippi Teen Constance McMillen To Be TV Movie

The life story of Constance McMillan, the lesbian Mississippi high school student who was banned from her prom, will be made into a television movie. One of the rare cases where the bullying led to a happy ending — the story of rural Mississipi lesbian high school student Constance McMillen who successfully sued the local school district for discrimination — …

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New Burlesque Trailer

Is it really so wrong that so many of us want this to be Glitter + Showgirls bad? It’s been ages since we’ve had a spectacularly bad/campy movie to chew on.

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Tired Old Queen At The Movies #51

William Wyler’s 1949 tearjerker The Heiress, starring Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson, and Olivia de Havilland.

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Tony Curtis Dies At Age 85

Legendary actor Tony Curtis has died at the age of 85. “My father leaves behind a legacy of great performances in movies and in his paintings and assemblages,” actress Jamie Lee Curtis said in a statement. “He leaves behind children and their families who loved him and respected him and a wife and in-laws who were devoted to him. He …

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Eddie Fisher Dies At Age 82

1950’s pop star and movie idol Eddie Fisher died from a fall in his California home yesterday at the age of 82. Although Fisher sold millions of records and had his own television show, his biggest claim to fame may be his high-profile marriages to Hollywood starlets Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor and Connie Stevens — all of which ended in …

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Blockbuster Files For Bankruptcy

It’s a Netflix world. Blockbuster has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from its creditors. Blockbuster Inc., once the dominant movie rental company in the U.S., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday, after reeling from mounting losses, rising debt and competitors that have better catered to Americans’ changed media habits. Blockbuster will continue to operate its 3,000 U.S. …

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Tired Old Queen At The Movies #50

1955’s The Night Of The Hunter, starring Shelley Winters, Robert Mitchum, Lillian Gish, and Peter Graves.

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TRAILER: Bear City

UPDATE: You can catch a glimpse of our own Father Tony dancing as an extra at the 1:43 mark in the clip.

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TRAILER: Fire From The Heartland

The coming documentary Fire From The Heartland is from Citizens United, the same outfit whose hit piece on Hillary Clinton resulted in the Supreme Court decision that corporations can make unlimited donations to political campaigns. This time they are exalting the nation’s female wingnuts. Clip description: The first-ever film to tell the entire story of the conservative woman in her …

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Sacha Baron Cohen To Play Freddie

Sacha Baron Cohen will play Freddie Mercury in an upcoming biopic. The film, which will focus on the period leading up to Live Aid in 1985, will begin shooting next year. “I think we’ll try and keep ourselves out of it as much as we can,” Queen guitarist Brian May said. Baron Cohen had been “on this project since we …

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This Is An Actual Movie

Screening tonight at the Family Research Council’s Values Voters Summit is Christmas With A Capital C, a movie depicting how one Satanic atheist tried to ruin Christmas for an entire Alaskan town. “Christmas with a Capital C” was filmed in Seward the last of February and early March. The movie stars Daniel Baldwin (the second-oldest of the Baldwin brothers) and …

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Free Trent Reznor Downloads

Trent Reznor is offering a free download of a five-track EP from his coming soundtrack to The Social Network, which will be released on September 28th. The download is live for the next 24 hours only.

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Tired Old Queen At The Movies #49

1940’s The Philadelphia Story starring Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, and Ruth Hussey.

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Tired Old Queen At The Movies #48

1946’s The Spiral Staircase starring Dorothy McGuire.

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Beetlejuice’s Otho Dies At Age 58

Actor and gay activist Glenn Shadix, best known as the snobby interior designer in Tim Burton’s 1988 hit comedy Beetlejuice, has died at the age of 58 after a fall at his Birmingham, Alabama home. “He was having mobility problems, and he was in a wheelchair,” Susan Gagne, Shadix’s sister, said. “It looks like he fell and hit his head …

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TRAILER: I Want Your Money

This bit of teabaggery, slated to open on October 15th, is the work of filmmaker Ray Griggs, who got his start with a movie about Satan and archangel Michael starting a war in heaven. SRSLY. (Tipped by JMG reader Lynda)

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Tired Old Queen At The Movies #47

Barbara Stanwyck & Henry Fonda in 1941’s The Lady Eve.

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