Ask FlickChick Top Five Guilty Movie Pleasures and MoreQuestion I like challenging thought-provoking movies as much as the next guy but I also love pure unadulterated cheese real Mystery Science Theater 3000-quality junk My biggest guilty pleasure is Ed Wood movies Do you have any guilty pleasures or are you strictly into quality movies EliFlickChick Oh I have a soft spot for junk I also have a rant about guilty pleasures indulge me please that goes something like this The fact that you love Plan 9 from Outer Space 1959 doesnt inherently make you stupid or invalidate your love for Citizen Kane 1941 so stand by your low-brow passionsThere Now here are my top five really trashy movie faves in ascending order 5 Barbarella 1968What it is a sexadelic adaptation of the erotic comic series about a beautiful space tart Jane Fonda sorry astronavigatrex and her adventures across the universeWhats so bad Tacky ta
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The Sarah Silverman Program premiered to an audience of 1.8 million total viewers last Thursday, the best debut for a Comedy Central original since Drawn Together (2004).... DVD release dates have been set for Babel (Feb. 20, though I already have mine... coolness) and The Pursuit of Happyness (Mar. 27). Out on disc today, meanwhile, is The Grudge 2 starring Amber Tamblyn (who, again, bailed on a Q&A with moi. Bygones).... Wal-Mart and Hewlett-Packard are set to announce a deal that will have the retailer selling movie and TV-show downloads via its website, says Reuters. But will they offer "Always Lowe Prices" on St. Elmo's Fire and Brothers & Sisters?
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Despite the fact that the always-lovely (and probably just busy) Amber Tamblyn never did call me for that Q&A... The Grudge 2 topped the weekend box office with a $22 million haul (compared to $39.1 mil for its predecessor). Rounding out the top five were The Departed ($18.7 million), Robin Williams' Man of the Year (opening with $12.55 mil), Open Season ($11 mil) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning ($7.75 mil).
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Amber Tamblyn, whose The Grudge 2 opens this weekend — and whom I hope to Q&A later today, hint-hint to her publicist who may be reading — has joined Blackout, an indie thriller about three people trapped in a hospital elevator for almost 24 hours.... Also per the Hollywood Reporter: Randy Quaid is in talks to play the mentor of Gary the Tennis Coach, starring Seann William Scott.... Brit actor Paddy Considine will play a London journalist sniffing around the CIA in The Bourne Ultimatum, now filming in Europe and Africa.
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