"Braveheart" tickets up for grabs

Mel Gibson's best performance? If not, "Braveheart" was near the top of the list.

To win a pair of tickets to the May 21 showing of "Braveheart," e-mail cdryden@idahostatesman.com with your phone number and the answer to the following question:

Best movie cars ever

In honor of "Speed Racer," movie Web site Rotten Tomatoes listed 50 of the most famous movie cars.

No. 1? Doc Brown's 1981 De Lorean DMC-12 from "Back to the Future" (parts I, II and III).

Win "Indiana Jones" posters

Adventuresome archaeologist Indiana Jones returns May 22 in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."

OK, so Harrison Ford is 27 years older than he was when he starred in "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Still, "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” is one of the summer's most eagerly anticipated films.

I've got four trivia questions for you and four extremely cool 27-by-36 original movie posters from each of the "Indiana Jones" films to give away to one lucky winner.

"Work is for people who can't play video games"

It's not often that I can wholeheartedly recommend a documentary, but I definitely tip my cap to "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters."

This doc, released on DVD earlier this year, focuses on the weird world of competitive video gaming - specifically old school arcade games.

"Blindness" at Cannes

The Cannes Film Festival opens Wednesday with a movie called "Blindness" about a city where everyone except for one woman goes blind.

Based on the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago, the film version is directed by Fernando Meirelles ("City of God," "The Constant Gardener") and stars Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo and Gael Garcia Bernal.

Win "Gone with the Wind" tickets

"Frankly, my dear ... I don't give a damn."

In 2005, this classic phrase was voted the number one movie line of all time by the American Film Institute 2005. The line, of course, comes from "Gone with the Wind."

To win a pair of tickets to the May 14 showing of "Gone with the Wind" at the Flahback Film Festival, e-mail cdryden@idahostatesman.com with your phone number and the answer to the following question:

"Sex and the City" movie is going to be big

The May 30 release of the "Sex and the City" movie is, for some, one of the biggest movie releases of the year. Thousands of women (and you can admit it, guys, some men) are eagerly anticipating the release of the film version of the perennial Golden Globe and Emmy winner.

And marketing execs for the film are only fanning the flames by keeping the plot top secret. We do know that notoriously single gal Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) ties the knot in the movie. There's even a naughty rumor that one of the characters dies in the movie.

Blockbuster films deserve Oscar consideration

Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch blog has a good idea for the folks that select the Academy Awards: pay attention to blockbusters when selecting the Oscars.

New movies in Flashback Series (plus a chance to win tickets)

The lineup has been set through June for the popular Flashback Film Festival that we've been giving away tickets for on this blog over the past few months.

The lineup is: May 7: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, May 14: Gone with the Wind, May 21: Braveheart, May 28: Beetlejuice, June 4: Footloose, June 11: Jaws, June 18: Forrest Gump, June 25: Singing in the Rain, July 9: The Breakfast Club

Here's your chance to win "Jurassic Park" tickets

Steven Spielberg's 1993 film based on the massively popular Michael Crichton book won several Oscars for its visual effects and was a box office smash. You may remember the characters, but you're going to have to do some research to win tickets to see "Jurassic Park" at the Flashback Film Festival on Wednesday.

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