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Posts by Colin Ellis

Oscars: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

By Colin Ellis Mar 08, 2010 11:03 pm

The Good:•   The winners mostly deserved their awards.     -Jeff Bridges was the sentimental choice, and basically won for all the times he was snubbed, but I’m ...

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Johnny Sensitive: 10 Films about Non-Threatening, Nice Guys

By Colin Ellis Mar 06, 2010 12:00 am

The kids over at The AV Club have hyped us all to a very annoying archetype in film known as the Manic Pixie Dream Girl (MPDG). This stereotypical character appears in over a dozen movies, from Annie ...

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Top 5 Second Bananas

By Colin Ellis Feb 27, 2010 12:00 am

Second bananas are the unsung heroes of art, whether it be film, books, television or music. They provide a much needed boost to the action, they take pressure off the leading actor or performer, ...

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50 Racist Movies

By Colin Ellis Feb 24, 2010 11:29 am

Dashing Fellows friend Thea Lim at Racialicious posted this list of The 50 Most Racist Movies You Didn’t Know Were Racist, compiled by Complex. There are some obvious ones like The Love Guru ( ...

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Lowered Expectations (aka Your Favourite Artist isn't that Smart)

By Colin Ellis Feb 21, 2010 12:01 am

The first few years of college are a transformative period in every young person’s life. It’s there we’re exposed to thousands of people roughly the same age as us, all having ...

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Keeping It Gangster

By Colin Ellis Feb 20, 2010 12:00 am

"Takin' a life or twoThat's what the hell I do, You don't like how I'm livin well fuck you!” - N.W.A. ("Gangsta Gangsta") The best scene in The Godfather isn’t when Jack Woltz finds ...

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Books about Sleeping with Nas

By Colin Ellis Feb 18, 2010 11:36 pm

The AV Club has reviewed two books about hip hop that involve Nas in some scandalous way. The first is Carmen Bryan's bio, It's No Secret, which chronicles her affair with Nas, as well as Jay-Z ...

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BBC Host Admits To Murder On The Air

By Colin Ellis Feb 17, 2010 3:37 pm

A BBC broadcaster confessed to killing his lover on a documentary for BBC One’s Inside Out East Midland’s program on euthanasia, which aired February 15. The confession had been taped in ...

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Romantic Comedies Are Dangerous

By Colin Ellis Feb 13, 2010 12:00 am

I’ll admit I’m a bit of closet fan of romantic comedies. I don’t go out to watch all of them, and I’ll avoid a host of them if I can, but a rom-com, properly made and with ...

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Jon Stewart Vs. Bill O'Reilly

By Colin Ellis Feb 07, 2010 11:37 pm

Forget the Colts and the Saints. If I want to watch a true smackdown, I'm going to watch this full-length, unedited tet-a-tet of Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly on The O'Reilly Factor. ...

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