Weekend Movie Forecast: Defiance Vs. Good

Blame his weekend's paltry crop of new movies on the studios' strategy of dropping their last Oscar hopes just before the New Year, which is when prestige pics like Benjamin Button and Revolutionary Road debuted. Those releases will no doubt eclipse this week's meager options, but let's try to keep up appearances, shall we? Excelsior!

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By John Del Signore in Arts and Events on January 2, 2009 3:40 PM

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ides_of_march

I didn't know James Bond was Jewish.

Rocknrope

He is, but he only plays tough Jews, the ones who carry machine guns like in Defiance and Munich, not the kind that do your taxes.

Line blatantly cribbed from Jon Stewart

Jen Chung

"The single most unconvincing death-camp scene I have encountered in a film" is added to my 2009 list of slams, right after, "I don't go to your job and knock the dicks out of your mouth."