Both of the big nationwide releases this week have widely distributed trailers that include scenes that are not actually in the movie.  I’ve written about this before.  Sometimes the movie is still being edited as the trailer is being prepared.  Sometimes the trailer is edited to make edgier or more adult material tame enough to …

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The 2015 Kennedy Center honorees are: George Lucas   Rita Moreno   Cicely Tyson   Carole King   The Eagles   Seiji Ozawa

Actor/director/producer Norman Lloyd appears in “Trainwreck” as the resident of an assisted living facility. He’s been an actor for 80 years. He was the villain in Hitchcock’s “Saboteur,” hanging from the hand of the Statue of Liberty. He worked with Orson Welles and Robin Williams, with Charlie Chaplin, Elia Kazan, and Denzel Washington. Here he …

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Judd Apatow has made a bunch of raunchy comedies about man-children who have to learn to grow up and embrace the joys of intimacy and responsibility, and one raunchy comedy (“This is 40”) about a couple who have to learn to grow up and embrace the joys of intimacy and responsibility. Guess what his new …

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I was thrilled to be invited to be on two of the best panels at Comic-Con. Every year, movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives attendees the chance to talk back to the critics at “Your Opinion Sucks!” Each person is given a paddle with a ripe tomato on one side and a rotten tomato on …

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