I saw "Love Actually" for the first time February of this year (yes a little late on the boat, I know!), and from my first viewing, I realized that it's one of the greatest films about love and Christmas to come out in the past decade. The 2003 romantic comedy has a whole slew of British acting greats that hopefully everyone has heard of, but the best part is that it's not headlined by your run-of-the-mill 20-somethings.
Liam Neeson, Bill Nighy, Alan Rickman, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson top the cast credits, with Laura Linney adding in an American flair and Kiera Knightly took on her small role the same year "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl" hit theaters and she, in turn, got huge.
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I'm not much of a Twitterer. I follow about 40 people, and I'm lucky if I Tweet a dozen times a month. But this week I officially became obsessed with one particular feed: Dead Man's Bones (
With every film adaptation comes a sacrifice of plot points from the novels they were based on, and "Harry Potter" is no exception. But since the early films were being made while the "Harry Potter" series was still incomplete, some plot oversights will need to be rectified in order for major events to occur in the final three films. Here are a few that need to find their ways back:
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Romance is difficult enough without worrying about how he (or she!) might pop the question. While a clumsy and comedic proposal could be the story you laugh about when you're older, a disastrous one has the power to destroy your relationship for good.
Every so often, a song comes along that becomes the darling of every film and television scorer, advertising music supervisor, and Starbucks/Gap playlist mixer. A few years ago, that tune was "Such Great Heights" (both the peppy Postal Service version and its mellower Iron & Wine counterpart). It popped up on the "Garden State" soundtrack. It accompanied "Grey's Anatomy" promos. I drank lattes to it. In short, it was everywhere. And now it seems a new song has emerged to seal the "used and abused" title for 2009: Erin McCarley's 
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