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Tagged: Nicole Kidman

· by Rob Kirchgassner · Mar 21, 2019

Eyes Wide Shut, 20 years later

It’s been twenty years since Stanley Kubrick put out his final movie, Eyes Wide Shut. This film made headlines in the months leading up to its July release date for many reasons. First of all, it was the first…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Dec 6, 2018

Hit or Bomb? December 2018 movie predictions

It’s the holiday season and we’ve got a lot of wide releases to cover this month, so let’s get to it. Our box office gurus this time around are Tyler Peterson, Thomas Ricard, Julie Kushner, Jordon Davis, and Rick Lewis.…

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· by Steven Birkner · Apr 21, 2015

Why Burton’s Batman will age better than Nolan’s

“It has the effect of reminding us while we’re watching a tightly-plotted crime drama that there is in fact a billionaire dressed up as a giant bat who refuses to use guns, fights criminals who have guns, and yet routinely emerges unscathed.”

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· by Lisa Needham · Jan 10, 2014

Morning Sideboob: Flavor Flav Can’t Drive 55, Nicole Kidman Goes Topless, and Amanda Bynes Doesn’t Go To Jail

Morning Sideboob: Flavor Flav Can't Drive 55, Nicole Kidman Goes Topless, and Amanda Bynes Doesn't Go To Jail

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· by Count Jackula · Mar 29, 2013

VIDEO: Stoker (2013)

Jackula and the Guru review Park Chan-wook's masterpiece of psychological horror Stoker, starring Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska, and Matthew Goode.

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· by Suzie McGinney · Jun 5, 2012

VIDEO: Australia (2008)

In Baz Luhrmann's Pearl Harbor, Nicole Kidman is a British aristocrat who inherits a cattle ranch in pre-World War II Australia, and Hugh Jackman is the rancher who helps her drive her cattle across the outback. Spoiler alert: They fall in love. Also, they adopt a half-white/half-Aboriginal boy who can do magic, apparently, and arrive just in time to be caught in a Japanese sneak attack.

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· by Ryan Lohner · Jan 22, 2012

VIDEO: The Golden Compass (2007)

Ryan hosts another episode of the Movie Skewer to look at The Golden Compass, based on a novel near and dear to him. New Line scrubbed away the book’s anti-Christian themes when they adapted it into a movie, along with all traces of anything dark or disturbing. Watch as Ryan examines the end result: a bland movie-by-committee where nothing is at stake.

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· by Stan Ferguson · Aug 19, 2011

VIDEO: Moulin Rouge (2001)

“Stan returns from the dead with a whole new manly musical: Moulin Rouge, the Orphean tale of a young chump and his sexy lady of the evening. Does this classic love story have what it takes to win Stan over? Can Stan resist the charms of adult contemporary songs sung by beautiful actors and the guy from Harry Potter 6? Does Stan feel like an idiot writing these things in the third person? The answer to all these questions—save the last—can be found inside the video thing below, and all it takes is one click of your mouse!”