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  • “To use movie terminology, we think this is a blockbuster double-bill,” said Joe Greenstein, co-founder and CEO of Flixster.

    Flixster Purchases Rotten Tomatoes – Collider.com 2010

  • Death Proof was released alongside Rodriguez's Planet Terror under the umbrella title Grindhouse, but when the double-bill flopped in the US, Death Proof was extended beyond its original 87 minutes and released alone in the rest of the world in a 114-minute edit which sorely outstayed its welcome.

    Sally Menke obituary Ryan Gilbey 2010

  • Downtown, the cutting edge continues to sharpen: Friday offers a double-bill headlined by slide-trumpeter Steven Bernstein 's Sex Mob, the omni-jazz a quartet that seems to exist for the express purpose of illustrating the direct connection between King Oliver and Don Cherry .

    The Jazz Scene: Giving Cole the Royal Treatment Will Friedwald 2012

  • Fringe Magnetic IRèNE, LondonFringe Magnetic, the 10-piece hybrid of classical strings and jazz instruments spawned by London's Loop Collective, shares this Loop-run double-bill with cutting-edge young Paris quartet IRèNE, which won the La Défense national jazz competition in France this year.

    This week's new live music Andrew Clements 2010

  • It belongs alongside Karel Reisz's Who'll Stop The Rain its perfect double-bill doppelganger, and Arthur Penn and Alan Sharpe's Night Moves – both visions of a post-Vietnam, post-Watergate American malaise.

    Cutter's Way is a cinematic masterpiece 2011

  • Upon opening the Friday paper one afternoon, it seemed as though lady luck had smiled upon me: Pretty Baby was in a double-bill with King of the Gypsies, my virtual girlfriend's latest cinematic outing, playing newcomer Eric Roberts' younger sister if Brooke only knew what a coveted part that would become in reality years later.

    Alex Simon: My First R-rated Movie or... How I Became the James Bond of Covert Forbidden Film Viewing Alex Simon 2011

  • A double-bill on March 4 features the two films for which Tracy won Oscars: "Captains Courageous" (1937) and "Boys Town" (1938).

    He Made a Career Out of Acting Ordinary David Mermelstein 2012

  • Drawing on both the contradictions and the richness of his heritage, Tavaziva combines African and contemporary dance and music in this new double-bill.

    This week's new dance 2011

  • But with Tuesday's opening show of their three-night sold-out Birchmere stand, Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt delivered a double-bill that was as good as it looked on paper.

    In concert: Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt at the Birchmere Dave McKenna 2011

  • The double-bill highlights the 1985 noir fantasia "Trouble in Mind," with Kris Kristofferson as a fallen ex-cop looking for love and redemption.

    BAM Gives a Megaphone to Cinema's Quieter Voices Steve Dollar 2011

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