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May 12, 2008

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Following the art house success of his debut, The Station Agent, director Thomas McCarthy looks to avoid the sophomore slump with his new film The Visitor. Which director lived up to the initial hype his second time around?

George Clooney – Good Night, and Good Luck. perfectly captured McCarthy-era politics while proving that the Oscar winner has serious talent behind the camera too.

Jason Reitman – Thank You for Smoking was good, but Juno is the film the type of film that launches an enduring career.

Eli Roth – Hostel cemented his place as the leader of the (splat) pack.

Judd Apatow – As seasoned a comedy writer as they come, Knocked Up showed that Apatow might just be the second coming of Harold Ramis.

Joe Wright – Following Pride and Prejudice with Atonement, Wright demonstrated that he can handle the period drama as well as anyone.

George Clooney prepared for his 1925 football comedy Leatherheads, by watching old screwball comedies from the 1930s and '40s. Which of the following is your favorite from that period?

It Happened One Night—The classic choice from Capra.

Arsenic and Old Lace—Can't resist really sweet old ladies…who just happen to kill people.

His Girl Friday—Humor at the speed of a newsroom.

The Philadelphia Story—Can’t beat the quip-filled dialogue.

Eight years after releasing Boys Don't Cry, director Kimberly Peirce returns to the big screen with Stop-Loss. Which other director has been absent for too long?

Alexander Payne–I can't wait to see his follow-up to Sideways.

Baz Luhrmann–Moulin Rouge was seven years ago. Australia can't come soon enough!

Cameron Crowe–I'd welcome a return to form after 2005's Elizabethtown.

Spike Jonze–Music videos can't compare with features like Adaptation.

The high school comedy Drillbit Taylor comes from a John Hughes treatment. Which of his '80s classics remains the best of its kind?

The Breakfast Club

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Sixteen Candles

Some Kind of Wonderful

John Hughes isn’t my style. I prefer Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused.

Jim Carrey’s plays the title role of another Dr. Seuss character in Horton Hears A Who. What type of role suits him best?

Understated and dramatic (see Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)

Slapstick physical comedy a la Dumb and Dumber

Larger-than-life funnymen like Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon

Dr. Seuss icons like the Grinch

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This weekend at the box office saw Iron Man holding steady for the second week in a row despite anticipated competition from the newly-released Speed Racer, starring Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci and Susan Sarandon. The first movie from Marvel Studios took in over $50 million dollars this past weekend, bringing its total gross up to $175 million. Speed Racer finished second with a cool $20-plus million.

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Speed Racer was written and directed by Andy and Larry Wachowski, the moviemaking brothers behind The Matrix trilogy and V for Vendetta. Which of these sibling moviemaking teams could get you to the theater in the middle of a snowstorm?

The Wachowski brothers.

The Farrelly brothers.

The Coen brothers.

None of the above. How about the Ephron sisters?

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