Mathew Plale

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Favorite Movies: Almost Famous, Annie Hall, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cinema read more Paradiso, City Lights, Days of Heaven, Diabolique, Dick Tracy, Double Indemnity, Duck Soup, The Exterminating Angel, Five Easy Pieces, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Hausu, King Kong, Magnolia, Modern Times, Paris Texas, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Scenes from a Marriage, Taxi Driver, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Wild Strawberries

Likes: Film, reading, writing, black coffee, diners, eBay, top 5 lists, wit, read more femme fatales, my dog, board games, The Muppets, The Wonder Years, Groucho, the photograph of Dali walking his anteater

Face-Off: Matt Damon vs. Ben Affleck

Posted 13 years ago

Last week, Malcolm X proved more popular than Dirk Diggler, as you chose Denzel Washington over Mark Wahlberg. With Matt Damon’s sci-fi actioner ELYSIUM due out in theaters this Friday and Ben Affleck’s oh-so-quiet TO THE WONDER now out on...

Face-Off: Denzel Washington vs. Mark Wahlberg

Posted 13 years ago

Last week, you gave Woody Allen a slight edge over Larry David and named him your favorite neurotic New York Jew that didn’t create Swamp Thing and Wolverine. This Friday, Baltasar Kormákur’s 2 GUNS hits theaters and stars two cinematic...

Face-Off: Woody Allen vs. Larry David

Posted 13 years ago

Last week, your votes were just about split in the battle of the Batmen, with no clear winner between Michael Keaton and Christian Bale. As far as other Caped Crusaders you’d most trust to protect Gotham City, Val Kilmer managed...

Face-Off: Batman – Michael Keaton vs. Christian Bale

Posted 13 years ago

Last week, you chose the Pale Man over the pale child, as fantasy PAN’S LABYRINTH won out over ghost story THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE in the showdown to see which of Guillermo Del Toro’s most praised Spanish-language films was tops. This...

Face-Off: Pan’s Labyrinth vs. The Devil’s Backbone

Posted 13 years ago

In the previous Face-Off, you chose the workforce over college life by selecting MONSTERS INC. over its prequel, MONSTERS UNIVERSITY. With PACIFIC RIM hitting theaters on Friday, this week’s Face-Off pits two of Guillermo del Toro’s best films, 2006’s PAN’S...

Face-Off: Monsters Inc. vs. Monsters University

Posted 13 years ago

In the previous Face-Off, Owen Wilson trumped fellow Wedding Crasher Vince Vaughn and you, the readers, mostly agreed that he belonged at the head table. With Pixar yet again dominating the box office, this week’s Face-Off pits the studio’s fourth...

Where on the Shelf Is…C*cksucker Blues?

Posted 13 years ago

Welcome to “Where on the Shelf Is…” In this column, I look at great TV shows and movies that have never been on DVD and/or Blu-ray. For your pleasure and out of all of our frustrations, this column examines the...