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Like so much of our content, today’s AVQ&A starts with The Simpsons. We’ve got dibs on Hot Fuzz, but what are your favorite film parodies?
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Scenic Routes discusses how a particularly obnoxious scene in Greenberg brings the film to a crashing halt.
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In what might be the most Wes Anderson-y review of a Wes Anderson movie, our noble film editor Scott Tobias calls Moonrise Kingdom an “astonishing piece of microcosmic whimsy.”
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Would you like to see Nicolas Cage yell the alphabet? It can only make your day better. Then you should check out today’s New Cult Canon. As Scott Tobias said, if these clips don’t sell you on Vampire’s Kiss, nothing will.
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This is an actual photo from an actual movie Paul McCartney made. It is also the reason why My World Of Flops exists. Someone must witness.
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We have a guide to Studio Ghibli, for lovers of wonderful animation like My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away. It’s mostly a way to introduce people to their output, but it has the fringe benefit of letting us look at pretty pictures all day.
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![AVC: So you got the flower-eater, Burson Fouch [in Little Shop Of Horrors]. Were you actually eating those flowers?
DM: Yeah, the flowers were nice. [Roger Corman] said, “Eat the flowers.” I said, “Eat ’em? Well at least get some fresh flowers, Roger, not two days old from a funeral!” [Laughs.] I gave them a try and I ate them, and I said, “That’s not too bad,” and then I dug into ’em. They were good. I didn’t stop to think they may have been sprayed or something.
AVC: I guess you spit them out as soon as you heard “Cut.”
DM: No, no! They were there to eat. And I ate ’em.
There’s a whole fabulous interview with Dick Miller here, if you’re interested in hearing what someone who’s been directed by Scorsese and Coppola has to say.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m44tb2bBv91r2igm4o1_500.jpg)
AVC: So you got the flower-eater, Burson Fouch [in Little Shop Of Horrors]. Were you actually eating those flowers?
DM: Yeah, the flowers were nice. [Roger Corman] said, “Eat the flowers.” I said, “Eat ’em? Well at least get some fresh flowers, Roger, not two days old from a funeral!” [Laughs.] I gave them a try and I ate them, and I said, “That’s not too bad,” and then I dug into ’em. They were good. I didn’t stop to think they may have been sprayed or something.
AVC: I guess you spit them out as soon as you heard “Cut.”
DM: No, no! They were there to eat. And I ate ’em.
There’s a whole fabulous interview with Dick Miller here, if you’re interested in hearing what someone who’s been directed by Scorsese and Coppola has to say.
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The Help, a movie that has at least four female characters, but hey, we’re not gonna argue with you when you’re like this.
No one does fake condescension quite like our man Sean O’Neal.
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In more excellent pop culture news, Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler are getting back together with David Wain and Michael Showalter for a rom-com parody. So that makes this, Cougar Town, and Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost joining up to finish their Shaun Of The Dead/Hot Fuzz trilogy. We’re just going to take the rest of the day off before any bad news can happen.
