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"Joe Somebody" plays like an after-school special, with grownups cast in the kids roles. Its a simple, wholesome parable, crashingly obvious, and we sit patiently while the characters and the screenplay slowly arrive at the inevitable conclusion. It needs to take some chances and surprise us. Everybody in the movie is kinda nice (except for the bully), and the principal--I mean, the boss--is patient while they learn their lessons, and Joe finds out he really is somebody when the smart girl smil...

Every ’90s Blockbuster Movie Ranked Thirty years on, the 1990s has solidified its stature as one of the magical decades in filmmaking, much like how we view the ’30s and the ’70s. Precisely, this Gen X-decade pulled together the Hollywood studio power of the ’30s and the groundbreaking creativity of the ’70s, crocheting commercialism and art into the movie behemoths we speak of in legend as the ’90s blockbuster — which we’ve now ranked all by Tomatometer! First off, in putting ...

Top Sales: Spec homes and celebrities fuel a red-hot November market [Los Angeles Times] After a quiet October that saw no deals north of $20 million, Southern California’s luxury real estate market came roaring back in November, with three homes trading hands for more than $30 million — including two on the same street. Here’s a closer look at the priciest deals that went down in Southern California last month. $47 million — Beverly Hills November’s biggest deal was in the 90210, whe...

Print After a quiet October that saw no deals north of $20 million, Southern California’s luxury real estate market came roaring back in November, with three homes trading hands for more than $30 million — including two on the same street. Here’s a closer look at the priciest deals that went down in Southern California last month. $47 million — Beverly Hills November’s biggest deal was in the 90210, where Nile Niami’s extravagant spec mansion, dubbed Opus, sold to San Marino real es...

How many times have you watched Love Actually this month? What is it about Home Alone that keeps us coming back for more? Is The Holiday really that bad, and is there such a thing as the perfect Christmas film? Well, if there’s a lesson to be learned from the cinematic ghosts of Christmas past, it’s that festive features come in all shapes and sizes. Morality tales, glossy soap operas, sugary fantasies, explosive actioners — you name it, we’ve seen them all. Some of them get better with...