Forget the last-minute chocolate sampler that your significant other will give you tonight. Do you know what won't test your peanut allergy or go on clearance at midnight? A variety of your favorite big-screen love scenes that Movieline has carefully hand-picked for you, dear reader. From the traditional to the messy forbidden love, there is something on this custom Valentine's Day list for everyone -- even Cupid's non-believers. Enjoy, and as always, we'd love to hear about your own favorite love scenes below.
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Adam Sandler, that patron saint of scathing critical responses, returns to the multiplex this weekend with bad review magnet Jennifer Aniston in Just Go With It, a romantic comedy about a plastic surgeon who lies about being married to sleep with younger women. As if the trailers or that premise didn't warn you enough to stay away -- shockingly, the film is based on the 1969 film Cactus Flower, co-starring Walter Matthau and Goldie Hawn, which itself was based on a French play -- the nation's best and brightest critical minds have come up with a variety of flowery ways to tell you to how much it sucks eggs. Click ahead for the nine best takedowns.
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So you might have heard writer-director Paul Haggis caused a bit of a stir when he left the Church of Scientology in 2009. His defection, he said at the time, was attributable to the church's reluctance to declare its tolerance toward gays and lesbians -- an institutional blind spot exacerbated by its refusal in 2008 to condemn California's Prop 8. But as a much-anticipated new profile in The New Yorker proves, there is a little more to the story. Like 24,000 words more.
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After months of dedicated football fandom, Super Bowl Sunday is finally upon us and you're prepared. You've planned your party, installed your Steelers/Green Bay kegerator, made Cory Monteith's five-layer dip and spoiled the Super Bowl commercials for yourself. There is just one more thing left to do: revisit some films, classic and lesser-known, with Super Bowl-related storylines to get you in the mood for Sunday's sports hysteria. Ready, set...
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If there's one thing that self-respecting football fans have in common, it's their unadulterated adulation of high school students singing Michael Jackson and Katy Perry. At least, that's what Fox hopes considering that an episode of Glee will air immediately following the Super Bowl this Sunday. Programming the Super Bowl lead-out is a tricky proposition: Obviously whatever is placed in that time slot is going to do gangbuster ratings, but considering that the current combination of NBC, CBS and Fox only have the Super Bowl once every three years, it may not be wise to waste this ratings bonanza on something like, say, the pilot for a Randy Quaid show called Davis Rules... which happened. So, what can Glee except from its monster of a lead-in? Let's look at nine fun facts about network programming that immediately follows the Super Bowl.
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Remember how James L. Brooks' latest drama How Do You Know went down in flames at the U.S. box office just a month ago? Well, its co-star Jack Nicholson was so willing to help salvage his frequent collaborator's film overseas that he offered a rare 90-minute interview to create buzz for its U.K. premiere. Unfortunately, the sit-down is drawing more attention to the 73-year-old's bizarrely depressed confessions (listed below) than to his latest film.
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"Let's tear this place apart!" So instructed director Jason Eisener before Friday's midnight premiere of Hobo with a Shotgun, the unabashedly campy Canadian-American grindhouse flick about a homeless drifter who cleans up the streets of a depraved urban metropolis with only a pawn shop shotgun and plenty of gloriously insane death-dealing catchphrases in his arsenal. And while it may have disappointed Eisener and Co. that an actual riot didn't erupt before or after their film, they must have been pleased that Hobo played exactly right to just the genre-loving crowd it was made for.
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Holding court for an assembly of journalists yesterday in Los Angeles, Sir Anthony Hopkins gamely talked up his upcoming thriller The Rite, in which he plays a seasoned Jesuit exorcist mentoring a skeptical seminary student (newcomer Colin O'Donoghue) in Rome. Sitting across from the Oscar-winning actor, one thing was clear: At 73, Sir Anthony has, to borrow from Plato, achieved a great sense of calm and freedom. Like, the freedom to do whatever the hell he wants, whether it's starring last year in Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, getting hairy in the uber flop The Wolfman, making a special appearance in low-budget B-movies about female cage fighters, or playing a Norse god in this summer's big-budget Marvel adaptation Thor.
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Sit down. Here's an actual quote from the Variety story about 20th Century Fox going ahead with an adaptation of the Atari game Missile Command. "With Missile Command, the scribes have little to adapt beyond a title to build a plot around and a Cold War-heavy scenario of players having to defend their cities from being destroyed by a rain of missiles." So, yeah, maybe James Cameron was right: Hollywood is completely out of ideas, unless they're related to '80s video and/or board games. Unfortunately, between Battleship, Stretch Armstrong, Asteroids, Clue and the hotly anticipated View Master, it seems Tinsel Town is even running out of games to adapt. Ahead, Movieline offers studio executives nine they might want to consider. Because at this point, why not?
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Aside from the hinky CGI, the hushed, pretentious tones, and the general unscariness of everything onscreen, the most troubling part of the new trailer for the ninja-faith-warriors-meet-vampires thriller Priest is how sad everyone is. They're really sad! Let's have a look at Paul Bettany, Karl Urban, Christopher Plummer and the rest of this dour, serious bunch. Cheer up, gang! There are paychecks waiting for you!
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News recently broke that acclaimed Old Boy director Park Chan-Wook shot his new thirty minute horror film on an iPhone. The film, Paranmanjang, had a $130,000 budget and will be released in nine cinemas nationwide. Yep, welcome to 2011! Sure, Chan-Wook is a solid filmmaker and it may be interesting to see how he handles an iPhone movie, but all the same I'd prefer that great filmmakers not get in the habit of shooting movies on cell phones. But since trends seem to operate independent of my opinion, it's always good to take a look at the silver lining. With that in mind, here are nine major filmmakers who might actually benefit from making their next film on an iPhone.
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Last night, the Lifetime Network -- otherwise known as the guilty pleasure center of your cable package -- premiered The Craigslist Killer, its highly-publicized docudrama about the good-looking Boston medical student convicted of murdering masseuses he found on the Internet. Like any good TV movie, Killer included a romance, the poorly-acted betrayal of a pretty blonde who could not pick a clue up with a forklift, and the subtext that all men -- especially the good-looking ones you don't suspect -- are evil. Ahead, I sift through the discarded Kleenex and chocolate wrappers to uncover nine lessons learned from the film.
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Just days after critics finished eviscerating Yogi Bear, they've unsheathed their knives again for the Meet the Parents threequel Little Fockers. Some holiday! Currently the film is hanging out at a 9% fresh rating on Rotten Tomates, which is 5% lower than Yogi Bear. Time will tell whether Gulliver's Travels can top them both, but for now let's take a look at harshest Fockers reviews, if only to see how many puns critics can make on the word "fock."
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Normally, Movieline reserves this feature for the dreck populating movie theaters during the warm summer months. If Hollywood has taught us anything, however, it's that bad movies can get released into the wild at any time. With that in mind, let's take a look at what the critics are saying about Yogi Bear, the dreck-iest of the dreck-y in theaters this weekend. Enjoy?
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Chelsea Handler began her campaign to succeed Barbara Walters as television's blondest interviewer with last night's Big Interview Special. The E! special featured conversations with Gwyneth Paltrow, Anne Hathaway and Christina Aguilera. Only unlike the 86-year-old 20/20 anchor, Handler came off less like your nosy great-aunt, and more like your gabby best friend who wanted to know everything about your sex scenes, gay best friends, Oscar disappointments and bucket bathroom habits. Let's check out the highlights ahead.
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