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America Feels the ‘Burn’
2:40AM STV | It’s a special day for moviegoers — the first time in three weeks those studio jokers didn’t leave the equivalent of a flaming bag of crap on our doorstep Friday morning. Thanks, Hollywood! Their reward? One of the best non-Labor Day September weekends in years, as illustrated by our regular browse through the Monday Morning Box Office:
Coens, Cops and Tyler Perry Take on ‘The Women’ in Fall’s First Battle Royale
2:15AM STV | Welcome back to Defamer Attractions, your weekly guide to peaks, valleys and pratfalls among the latest new movies in theatres. And finally, after consecutive weekends when we thought God had up and abandoned us with the feral makers of College and Disaster Movie, we have some real films to write about. So read on for our typically expert preview of what’s what at the box office, including Coen surprises, Alan Ball atrocities, potential ladyfights, timely new DVD’s and one melodrama to rule them all. As always, our opinions are our own; you simply can’t fake this kind of refinement, taste and acuity. More »
Brad Pitt Successfuly Evacuated From Secure, Non-Burning Toronto Landmark
8:45AM STV | It wasn’t just the Lumenick/Ebert skirmish that took nearly a week to reach the states via specially trained Canadian gossip pigeons. Now we’re learning more about the fire that threatened Burn After Reading co-star Brad Pitt at his hotel in Toronto — or perhaps “threatened” is too strong a word. Maybe “damaged an adjacent complex while Pitt’s security detail freaked the fuck out” might be a little more on point, according to a report: More »
First ‘Burn After Reading’ Reviews Suggest It’s Either Brilliant Or Crap
7:50AM Seth | With the exciting news that Brad Pitt has won his second best actor chalice today at the Venice Film Festival—for what the judging committee deemed his “indomitable spirit both on and off the screen, his effortless embodiment of the American masculine ideal, and the way sucking up to him will facilitate future access to his impossibly fertile and glamorous life partner, Angelina Jolie”—we thought it time to finally time to take a look at the movie which ushered him to victory. We speak, of course, of the Coen brothers’ Burn After Reading, which had its world premiere tonight at the festival. If Pitt, as Javier Bardem did before him, could win top accolades with a hairstyle this ridiculous looking, then this truly must have been another masterwork from the sibling geniuses. Let’s see what the critics are saying. (And yes, spoilers ensue.) More »
