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This Is So Last Week
2012 Weekly Entertainment, Celebrity and Pop Culture Trivia Quiz.
This week: Banged-up action stars, movie trailers, a Smash and The River. Plus: someone or something named Exton. Display your pop culture mastery with our entertainment and celebrity quiz for the 6th week of 2012.
Weekend Forecast
Someone get Denzel and Liam Neeson in a buddy film, stat..
Suddenly, Valentine's Day (proximate) weekend is like July 4th, for all the potential hits opening up this weekend. Sure, we had to go back into our bag of past blockbusters for one of them, but that still counts. With four films that all look like solid earners, this could be one of the biggest weekends at the box office until May.
     
Reader Awards
BOP Reader Awards
Now in its 27th year, the BOP Reader Awards is your chance to vote for your favorites in movies, TV, books and gaming.

What books made your loins ache? Which films were worth the full $20 admission price? Which games made the inevitable carpal tunnel totally worth it? Tell us, and see how your choices compare with those of other BOP readers.



 
What Went Right: Saw
Is this a Saw/Lost tie-in?
Saw had a reported production budget of $1.2 million. Just think about that for a moment.
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games Trivia Quiz
Suzanne Collins' young adult novel became an international sensation shortly after its release in 2008.
Review: The Woman in Black
The downside of Instagram.
Given the unparalleled success of the Harry Potter movies, it might seem inevitable that Daniel Radcliffe (Harry) would be forever typecast...
Oscar 2012
Why do people think Calista Flockhart is too thin?
I've been studying the Oscars assiduously since 2002.
Top Chef: Texas Recap
What is that crawling up her side?
At the Top Chef house, Edward rolls out of bed and he's wearing a suit jacket and shorts.
The Phantom Menace
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Trivia Quiz
George Lucas released Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace to great fanfare in 1999. Reaction was....mixed.
Monday Morning Quarterback
He's a pinball king now.
For the second half of our discussion, we look at Big Miracle and the Super Bowl ads.
Comics Weekly
Well. That's descriptive.
What do I have to do to get you into a new comic book today?
Monday Morning Quarterback
Winning. For real.
Young men have powers, while Harry Potter grows up and moves on. We discuss all the details.
Jackass: The Movie
Jackass: The Movie Trivia Quiz
In 2002, Johnny Knoxville and company brought their raunchy Jackass project to the big screen. This proved to be an unexpected TV-to-film triumph.
Oscar 2012: Sweep Year
Good dog.
Has it reached the point where we all can finally accept the inevitable?
The Big Picture
Recent & upcoming films, awards and, if we're lucky, home phone numbers

February 10, 2012
Career notes, awards, recent and upcoming movies.

Featured today:

Anthony Hopkins
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Upcoming Releases
Friday, March 9
John Carter of Mars
Friday, March 30
Clash of the Titans 2
Wednesday, April 4
The Three Stooges
Friday, April 13
The Cabin in the Woods

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Trivia
This week's question:

Characters named Hans and Gruber do not stop when the sex club's safe word is incorrectly stated several times in this wildly underrated movie.

Answer:
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See last week's answer and winners here.

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Top 5
Les Winan's
Top 5 John Cusack Movies
  1. Better Off Dead
  2. High Fidelity
  3. Say Anything...
  4. Grosse Pointe Blank
  5. Being John Malkovich
This Date in Film History
  1906:

Creighton Chaney, later known to the world as Lon Chaney Jr and The Wolfman, is born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

1940:

MGM's cartoon Puss Gets the Boot, directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (but credited to Rudolf Ising), is released. First Tom & Jerry cartoon.


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