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The 2023 Holiday Movie Season Begins: What's Coming Up - Vanity Projects, Oscar Bait...and More!

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  The holiday movie season officially starts this later this week. If you find yourself fed up with the relatives on Thanksgiving Day or dealing with belligerent shoppers on Black Friday, then head out to the movies. You can deal with outrageous ticket prices and stale popcorn instead. Here are a few of the vanity projects and Oscar bait movies to select from.  Edit: The movies below will be released starting late this week through end December. Maestro: The Leonard Bernstein bio pic that's directed, co-written, and stars Bradley Cooper and his fake prosthetic nose. Bradley desperately wants an Oscar, and this movie is his second shameless attempt to convince everyone he’s the next Orson Welles or Frank Capra.  He's going to be campaigning hard for those Academy votes. The real Leonard Bernstein (left) vs. Bradley Cooper with fake nose: Photo: The New York Times Leave The World Behind: A paranoid thriller about a family who rents a vacation home. Think AirBnB + inte...

OPEN POST: Barbie owned the weekend and made "grown" men cry!

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Hold on while I wipe tears from laughing so hard I can't breathe. So The Wall Street Journal's whiny little baby boys were so beside themselves that they took a break from smugly encouraging greed to stand against Barbie. I thought they were too busy kissing evil troll Rupert Murdoch's shriveled-up ass flaps to give a shit about a movie about a doll but apparently not. It probably irked them to see a blonde, blue-eyed beauty espousing feminist ideals and not interested in becoming the Trad Wife they think women should be. Their ideal woman is as plastic as possible while still being considered part of the human race, who worships her man and is better seen and not heard. Their medieval assertions about gender roles got a beating, and it was from (oh no!) a woman! Who knew that a comedic reality show would spin-off from the movie before it even opened. These fragile crybabies are so outlandish in their man-sized tantrums that even 1950 Barbie gives them the side-eye. Their d...