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Hey, everyone. “Moriarty” here.
Have I mentioned before how much I find games of chance to be irritating on film?
I’m pretty sure I first wrote about this when they decided to change the featured game from baccarat to poker in CASINO ROYALE. In the end, I think it didn’t really matter because the card-playing was next to irrelevant in the Bond film. They could have been playing CANDY LAND for all it mattered. Ultimately, it was just an excuse for Mads Mikkelsen and Daniel Craig to glower at each other across a table for a while before the ball-slapping began.
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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I spent most of my weekend playing as much of the HALO 3 Beta as I could before it expired about an hour and a half ago. I was even playing with a guy who was talking about this particular movie, Zak Penn's THE GRAND.
He saw it and said it was fantastic, really hilarious... basically an improv movie (think Christopher Guest) set around a Poker game. The game was not set up or pre-planned, so whatever happened as the game continued on, happens in the movie.
Lots of great names in this flick: Michael McKean, Richard Kind, David Cross, Judy Greer, Dennis Farina, Werner Herzog, Woody Harrelson and Cheryl Hines to name a few. It screened at Tribeca and recently at CineVegas, to very positive word.
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