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--- Slow Show - I'm having one of those days where everything I read is making me angry. Take this tag-team take-down by the NY Times critics of a recent piece in the New York Times Magazine about how that writer can't stomach "slow" movies anymore. I agree with most everything Dargis and Scott have to say in rebuttal to this ridiculousness - although I got a little eye-rolly at Scott's insistence on bringing The Tree of Life into it, til he allowed for some wiggle-room for those of us that found that film ponderous for other reasons - but mostly it just made me nuts that the original article even got published in the first place. I get enough of a defense of intellectual laziness from our politicians, thanks very much. I thought I'd be safe amongst art critics. Shame is a lost art in this world.

--- Speaking of everything I just wrote, Slash rounded up a batch of "first impressions" of Green Lantern from Twitter, and I'm ashamed that I wasted my time reading them. Blake Lively is so hot with her brown hair 3D rules verbal barf kill me now!!!

--- Mutant X'd - Over at io9 they're offering a few reasons why X-Men Muppet Babies underperformed a little bit box-office-wise, including it's Michael Fassbender's fault for not being Hugh Jackman, and then  the first comment uses the word "funnest." I am just gonna throw myself off a cliff and be done with it. I have no patience for anything today.

--- Lil' Wizards - Okay, here's a palate cleanser via PopWrap - the first screen-test of Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint before the very first Harry Potter movie. Awwwww.

--- Fun Fact of the Day - I didn't know that the background sound in Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" song was her tapping her fake nails on a counter-top! Learn all that and more over at Low Resolution where Joe and Mark are taking on the Best Song category at the 1980 Oscars.

--- And ending on a happy note, here's some behind-the-scenes footage from Ghostbusters 2. Slimer puppetry ho! (via)

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--- One Long Boo - I've been hearing good word on the Uruguayan single-take haunted house movie The Silent House for months and months now, so it's nice to hear it will actually get some play here in the States. Of the Video On Demand sort, but still, it's something. It'll be accesible via your television set on May 11th. And Slash has got a trailer.

--- Way Werner - With his 3D-palooza Cave of Forgotten Dreams finally getting a real release next week - here's my review, by the way - we're in the lucky golden days of Herzog interviews everywhere. Here's a good one over at IndieWire. I thought it might end with him smacking the interviewer, which was exciting.

--- Red Button Man - Apparently David Lynch made an animated short film for the band Interpol, which they're showing on their recent tour. Yet another reason for me to be excited about seeing them next month! But if you're not going to any of their shows, no worries, the film's already online and you can watch it right here.

--- Speaking of hard-to-see films, you can watch Stanley Kubrick's lost first film Fear and Desire right here, but only until April 29th!

--- You Suck - Inspired by Mickey Rourke's slam of his movie with Megan Fox and Bill Murray - a movie I totally want to see - Pajiba listed their ten favorite examples of actors slamming one of the movies they were in. I'd never heard the Jamie Lee Curtis one. And I was shocked there was no mention of The Sound of Mucous.

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