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Back in 2007, "Grindhouse" seemed like a movie fan's celestial dream, poised to descend from the heavens to bless us with it's presence.  This was, after all, the first collaboration between wunderkind directors Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Constantino since 1996's genre-bending Mexican vampire opus "From Dusk Till Dawn."  Fresh off their successes with "Sin City" and "Kill Bill", the filmmakers aimed to pay tribute to the exploitation movies that had influenced their careers.  Armed with high expectations and a dream cast, the duo embarked on a journey to take the world back to the drive-in.   Unfortunately in the age political correctness a

Micheal Bay is the kind of director that makes you want to hate movies forever. On his own, he is the man responsible for such cinematic abortions as "Bad Boys" 1 & 2, "Armageddon", "The Rock", "The Island" and his holy grail of crap, "Pearl Harbor." Coming from the world of commercials and music videos, Bay doesn't make movies so much as he makes two and a half hour TV spots. His trademark explosions an indecipherable editing style have helped lower entertainment standards across the board. More recently as a producer, he has seen fit to remake classic fright flicks, turning once revered horror movies into lifeless cash cows. "Friday The 13t

At the height of her popularity, teen pop-tart Britney Spears decided it would be nice to try her hand at acting.  The result was the 2001 opus Crossroads, not to be confused with the album by Eric Clapton or the movie starring Ralph "karate kid" Macchio, both which are arguably better than Mrs. Spears' vanity project.     Musicians becoming actors is not unusual.  From Frank Sinatra to Mick Jagger to Fergie, the roads of film history are paved with many such accounts.  Varied results aside, the urge to break out into another medium is a very human characteristic.  The frumpy wish to look fabulous, the poor want to be rich, the rich yearn t