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    Lists! Best movies of this decade!!!

    We here at The Devil’s Avocado like our lists to come out on Mondays, and we like them to go to eleven.  Here’s one for you:
    Best Movies of the 2000’s (so far).
    I didn’t include docs (Grizzly Man) or Foreign Language Films (City of God, Oldboy) and there are several others I would love to see [...]

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    Judd Apatow - I Love You, Man

    I just realized that I had seen I Love You, Man but neglected to write something about it.  And now that I’m here - supposedly about to write something about it - I really can’t think of much to say.  I liked it.  Quite a bit.  Yeah. 
    The thing is, though, I am a big fan [...]

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    Don’t Mess with Fox’s Wolverine: Me-ow!

    A follow-up to Josh’s review of the leaked Wolverine.
    Just thought I’d see what you all think about this.  A columnist for Fox News, Roger Friedman, was fired yesterday for writing about his experience watching the leaked version of Wolverine recently - you can read about it here in the LA Times and here in Variety,  among many others.  [...]

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    Milk made me cry. There I said it. Leave me alone!

    Usually, if I cry at movies - basically, I just get a welling of tears and it doesn’t go much beyond that.  But it’s worth noting, at least, because I was certainly moved to the point of tears - where some others may have jumped fully into tears down the face, sniffling, snot dripping…all that [...]

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    Top 5 - Best Superhero Casting Choices (and the Worst)

    With the recent leak of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and the slew of super-hero movies that have been made or are slated for release in the near future, I got to thinking.
    Which actors fit their superhero/villian roles the best? Which actors so lifted the character, many times an already-existing American icon, off the splash page of [...]

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    Leak of X-Men Origins: Wolverine Rough Cut Still Sharp. Can Only Get Sharper.

    It’s a rough cut.  It’s missing the score, some lines of dialogue, most computer FX, and even, reportedly, entire scenes that had yet to have been filmed when the FOX film, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, was leaked Tuesday.
    The last time I picked up a Wolverine comic, he didn’t have his memory back, Magneto had yet to [...]