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It would seem that Ben Affleck just may get a new lease on acting life with the rave reviews he's been pulling in for his work as George Reeves in Hollywoodland. While we'll have the review of that film here soon, it seems a lot less notable than the fact that Mr. Affleck just won the Venice Film Fest's best actor award for this role. Scary, or scarily cooool? Answer: just scary. But to make things more fun (because we here at Planetarium are all about the fun) check out this priceless clip from 2004 of a very very drunk Ben Affleck on Canadian TV, doing things that would get most of us slapped VERY hard.

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So as much as i love the gays, occasionally they ruin horror movies with their stern Hollywood-inflected demands to make a movie less gay. Much unlike The Illusionist, which we saw this weekend and was quite good, most movies would fail the less-gay test. The Fast and the Furious? Gay. Tokyo Drift? Gay. Crossover? C'monm, it's called Crossover - GAY. What's left? Nothing. Except maybe the Gay and the Furious. Or possibly Mean Girls 2.

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...go away.

IN other news, there is a distinct lack of interesting movies out right now. Other than The Illusionist, which is looking like it's actually an amazing film, we have been forlornly adding films to our Netflix queue, waiting out the dry spell.

The Crocodile Hunter is in crocodile heaven. Unless that means he'd be in the place where crocodiles go, because he'd likely get totally mauled there. In which case he's just in normal heaven.

We're soliciting new suggestions for the re-naming of the Global War on Terror, as recently announced by some fairly important people. Thoughts?

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