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    Do the Cannes-Cannes!!

    Speaking of Summer…
    Every year around this time, I tell this at least once: the Cannes Film Festival is pronounced Can Film Festival; and if someone pronounces it Con Film Festival, they’re pretentious and ignorant; and if anyone puts an S on, they’re just ignorant. 
    Now, in the past, I’ve pronounced it a number of ways, all [...]

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    Lists! Best Summer Movies

    We here at the Devil’s Avocado like our lists to come out on Mondays (or the Tuesday after a national holiday-Hey, I got BBQs to attend and war movies to watch), and like Spinal Tap’s amps, our lists go to eleven.
    Now that school’s out, I’ve gotten my bike out of storage, and I’ve attended both [...]

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    Hey, Star Trek, where are the congas???

    I find it telling that the original Star Trek theme music doesn’t make itself known in it’s full glory until the very end of the movie, when the characters disappear and are replaced by the credits of the people who played those characters, the letters whizzing past the screen, waving goodbye, go home, goodnight.  Not [...]

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    My childhood movies

    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:
    So, this list may be a bit less “fists swinging” than my last one, but I’m in a nostalgic mood.  When Spielberg and Scorsesewere kids, they adored the movies of [...]

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    Lists!! Underachieving films we inexplicably love

    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:
    According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal is remaking Drop Dead Fred with British comedian Russell Brand set to portray the title role.  Now why in the world would the studio even dare to mess [...]