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#1 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs from Sony continues to hold the #1 spot with a weekend gross of $24.6 million (-18.8%) in 3119 theaters (no change). Total gross to date is $60 million. Budget was $100 million. #2 Surrogates from Buena Vista debuts at #2 with an opening weekend gross of $15 million [...]

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In the near future, a new invention has taken over the land, the concept of the “virtual self” where the user can remain at home and by cybernetically connecting to a robot body that can safely interact with the outside world. These “surrogates” act as an idealized avatar in the outside world with the benefit [...]

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Welcome…. to Jurassic Park. Nazi Dinosaurs? We dare you not to have visions of velociraptors in Hugo Boss designed SS uniforms with shiny jackboots after listening to this episode. (Apologies to Chris for stealing this line from his email telling us he was done editing this episode.)

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We discuss the Guy Ritchie flicks Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. This one is rated Explicit, so be warned.

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Yep, we chat up THE STORM CLOUD again.  Make sure you grab your copy before they are sold out. In this episode, we discuss the 1999 Sci-Fi Comedy/Spoof Galaxy Quest.  Lots of laughs are had buy the hosts as we pick apart the flick and explain why we feel this is the way that spoofs [...]

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#1 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs from Sony debuts at #1 with an opening weekend gross of $30.1 million in 3119 theaters. Budget was $100 million. #2 The Informant! from Warner Brothers debuts at #2 with an opening weekend gross of $10.5 million in 2505 theaters. Budget was $22 million. #3 Tyler Perry’s I [...]

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Remove the live concert footage and the nonessential (I hesitate to call them gratuitous) sex scenes, and 9 Songs ceases to be a movie and becomes a film short.  There’s not a lot of story here.  I can’t even call it a character study, because we barely learn anything about Matt and Lisa, the couple [...]

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In the early 90s, a transnational corporation ADM (Archer Daniels Midland) was investigated by the FBI into matters of price-fixing around the world (primarily around the use of the amino acid lysine in food production) and all of that came about through one very big whistle-blower by the name of Mark Whitacre, a very big [...]

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#1 Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself from Lionsgate Films debuts at #1 with an opening weekend gross of $23.4 million in 2255 theaters. Budget is unknown. #2 9 from Focus debuts at #2 with an opening weekend gross of $10.7 million in 1661 theaters. Budget is unknown. #3 Inglourious Basterds from [...]

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We talk about one of the biggest films of the year… No I didn’t bother to check if it actually was. Special thanks to special guest Aron Head of Ideology of Madness and Funny Books with Aron and Paulie. Let us know what you think and be sure to check out Aron’s other work… Including [...]

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