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23 Movie Restaurants We'd Like To Eat In
The diners and bars that host the stars
BY Nathan Ditum Jan 29th 2010 // 11:11AM FILED UNDER: Features
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The Place: The hipper than hip Tinseltown-themed diner, thick with kitsch paraphernalia and staffed by a legion of golden era star look-alikes. The shakes are worth every cent of their five dollar tag, and the Douglas Dirk steak looks delicious. Oh, and the tables are made from cut-out corvettes. Awesome.
The 14 Greatest Films That Didn't Win Oscars
Academy shock, shame and injustice
BY Total Film Jan 29th 2010 // 13:13PM FILED UNDER: Features
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Nominated?: No. Not for anything. Well, except Best Editing, and that hardly even counts.
Should've won: At least a one major goddam nomination. It's one of the Academy's enduring shames that David Fincher's modern masterpiece was overlooked when it could easily have won in so many categories.
15 Revolting Movie Youths
Sorting out the rebels from the rabble
BY Simon Kinnear Jan 29th 2010 // 10:10AM FILED UNDER: Features
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The actor/film: Michael Cera, Youth In Revolt (2010)
Anti-social behaviour: Francois est un bad boy. Giving a Gallic shrug to good behaviour, he prefers sex, smoking and criminal damage.
Rebel Cause: Francois isn't real.
Interview: Ricky Gervais
On lies, music, nostalgia and round-headed buffoons
BY Andy Lowe Jan 29th 2010 // 15:15PM FILED UNDER: Features
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"HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"
Ricky Gervais' plaster-loosening cackle peals in from the side-room adjoining the modest office where totalfilm.com is chatting with the fella who does his website.
We're talking about our ongoing campaign to get Gervais' Podcast/Audiobook fall guy Karl Pilkington a surely unwanted role in The Hobbit.
The 9 Funniest TV Movie Censor Moments
Bring on the muddy funsters...
BY Andy Lowe Jan 29th 2010 // 11:11AM FILED UNDER: Features
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Villain-transporting cop Sam Jackson has done his best to protect the people on the plane from the snakes on the plane.
But then, roughly around 40 minutes after the audience, his patience pops...
Okay, maybe 'Monday-to-Friday' is at least descriptive of the plane's schedule, but '
14 Most Depressing Movies Ever
Hankies at the ready...
BY Josh Winning Jan 29th 2010 // 8:08AM FILED UNDER: Features
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The Movie: Adaptation of the novel by Hubert Selby Jr, directed by Darren Aronosfky.
Four characters each battle their addictions, escaping into their own delusional internal worlds.
The Misery: Practically every frame of Aronofky’s flick oozes misery.
600 Movie Blogs You Might Have Missed
The weird, the wonderful, the well informed...
BY Dan Goodswen Jan 29th 2010 // 10:10AM FILED UNDER: Features
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If our recent Blog Awards taught us anything, it's that there are a lot of Movie Blogs out there, many of which don't get the kind of publicity and traffic their passionate and largely unpaid writers deserve.
We did a little digging, and came up with a pretty damned comprehensive list of blogs for you to browse and bookmark.
10 Reasons Why Avatar Will Win Best Picture
Like it or loathe it, here’s why it could win...
BY Josh Winning Jan 28th 2010 // 13:13PM FILED UNDER: Features
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James Cameron has been nominated for three Oscars in the past. And he’s won three Oscars.
Statistically, that’s what we call a 100% pass rate.
It also means that not only do the blokes working behind the scenes at the Academy Awards like Cameron, they’re also more than a little inclined to shove awards his way whenever he makes a film.
The Evolution Of Mel Gibson
From the Aussie wastelands to the Scottish highlands and beyond...
BY Josh Winning Jan 28th 2010 // 11:11AM FILED UNDER: Features
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The Film: Directed by George Miller, this dystopian nightmare figures the MFP (Main Force Patrol) into a post-apocalyptic world where insane boy racers have take possession of the roads.
The Role: It’s the one that put Gibson on the film map.
If Movie Criminals Faced Real Lawyers
Cinema's runaway criminals face actual justice...
BY Total Film Jan 28th 2010 // 11:11AM FILED UNDER: Features
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They did the crime but not the time. Now these fly-the-coop criminals face their ultimate authority: the court of Total Film.
We've gathered together a genuine prosecution team to find out how easy it'd be to bang up the likes of Michael Myers, Hannibal Lecter and The Narrator from Fight Club.
