February 24, 2008 - March 1, 2008 Archives
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Hey, remember when Napoleon Dynamite Fever swept the nation, spreading quickly from dorm rooms to workplaces until gruesomely quoting itself to death, its overly-quirky corpse torn apart and dragged to the clearance bins of Hot Topics? And how you thought that after the DVDs, t... / Continue →
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After a brief respite in honor of Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight viral marketing train is once again rushing towards us, now asking that you provide Harvey Dent with your email and phone number at IBelieveInHarveyDent.com. Just don't blame me if he starts calling you drunk or fo... / Continue →
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In an effort to cut costs and save on distribution, Time Warner has announced the merger of Warner Bros. Entertainment and New Line Cinema. Under the merger, New Line will maintain separate marketing, production, and distribution, but it's made clear that if they drive anywhere... / Continue →
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Having already taken biopic roles as Tookie Williams, Ray Charles, and Nathaniel Ayers, and with plans to play Earl Sanders and Bob Marley, Jamie Foxx has proven himself the man to get for any and every true story about a black guy. So when word spreads of a Mike Tyson film in ... / Continue →
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I don't even know how to describe the painfulness of Mike Myers' The Love Guru trailer. "Austin Powers: new costume, same jokes" is appropriate, but doesn't really convey the way your brain shuts off around the point the midget jokes start (and never stop). At the same time, "b... / Continue →
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As much I find Iron Man and his glib alter ego Tony Stark to be intolerable characters, I have to admit that Jon Favreau looks to have made a decent adaptation of the source material. And with a non-stop barrage of hard rock (AC/DC, Audioslave, Black Sabbath's "Iron Man", of co... / Continue →
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Gerard Butler, long-rumored for a part in Zack Snyder's Watchmen adaptation, has admitted that he is providing the voiceover for the Tales of the Black Freighter section of the film--the pirate part of the comic that you mostly skipped over but pretended to enjoy as a brilliant... / Continue →
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The latest offering in the Nick-At-Nite-programming-turned-broad-comedy genre, Get Smart, has a new trailer. Like in the previous trailers, it still looks bland and uninspired, relying on its impressive cast to pull off weak slapstick gags, but enough works that I'm willing to ... / Continue →
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At what point in the film will Dark Matter turn from a fish-out-of-water drama, following a Chinese cosmology prodigy's inability to conform to a university's political hierarchy, to a serial-killer-on-the-loose story? If the trailer gives us any indication, somewhere around th... / Continue →
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Imagi International has announced that Freddie Highmore--the kid from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Finding Neverland--will provide the voice for Astro Boy in the CGI adaptation of the manga. I guess the character will have an English accent now, instead of the Charlie ... / Continue →
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The trailer to Step Brothers has arrived, with Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly effectively reinventing the strange partnership of two semi-retarded man-children that keeps you half-watching Dumb and Dumber when it's on cable (assuming that replacing fart jokes with shirtless jo... / Continue →
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So, remember when you saw those images of Isabella Rossellini--dressed as various insects, arachnids, and mollusks--humping prop insects, arachnids, and mollusks? And how, after you ascertained this was somehow reality--that Isabella Rosellini was truly mounting a giant cardboa... / Continue →
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Yeah, Pixar, we get it. You've figured out how to make Johnny 5 cuter: making him smaller, and not accompanied by a racist caricature. 'WALL-E' Poster Premiere! [Cinematical]... / Continue →
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For today's dose of Indiana Jones, Nibenay has five new shots to indulge in, scanned from the popular French magazine "Fourth-Wall Breaking Old Ladies in Funny Hats Monthly". Check them out here.... / Continue →
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"Oh, I'm going to be turning into the Hulk? Let me throw on my high-waisted shorts real quick, so I don't ruin another pair of Dockers." New Incredible Hulk Pics [Empire]... / Continue →
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A couple days ago, writing up the weekend box office report, I made a pretty weak joke that the success of Step Up 2 the Streets would spawn a third film in the series: Step Up 2 the Streets 2: The Str33ts. Reality has trumped me again: Disney will proceed with a third install... / Continue →
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Let's count! 1. Simon Rex's equivalent of The Human Torch has caught himself on fire. See, traditionally The Human Torch has the power to manipulate fire at will. Why would he catch himself on fire?! 2. Wolverine is using said fire to roast marshmallows--on his claws! One wou... / Continue →
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Reminiscent of the Star Trek casting call, or the end of The New Colossus, the upcoming horror film Shelter is looking for some mutants to join star Julianne Moore. Specifically, the release asks for men and women of all races, so long as they have the following freakish attrib... / Continue →
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After the above shot from the set of G.I. Joe was taken last week, there was some concern that the traditionally raven-haired Baroness may have been made blonde. Naturally, there was outrage: how dare they deviate from the original, slightly altering a fading memory of our chil... / Continue →
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As times goes on--possibly as a sign of impending dementia--Ridley Scott has been taking on projects that seem increasingly likely to be incredibly boring. The director, known for directing two of the best sci-fi films ever made (Alien and Blade Runner), announced last year tha... / Continue →
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I know I've said this before, but Wolverine really loves to pose. But not just any run-of-the-mill pose. Said pose must have very specific qualities, such as: 1. It must be very unlikely to occur naturally - Holding arms out and back, squatting and grimacing, crossing claws--t... / Continue →
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Non-stop conversations about men, clothes, and "fairy tale endings", a mobile phone descending like a gun in a John Woo film, a Winnebago of camp, Sarah Jessica Parker--I must be watching the new Sex and the City trailer, though I'm not sure why. If you've been waiting for that... / Continue →
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I'll assume you've all watched the amazing UK The Office and the uneven but satisfying Extras, and, like me, have become ardent fans of creators Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Thus, you will be excited enough to make slight wheezing sounds when you hear the two are re-team... / Continue →
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From Superhero Movie, an obvious parody of the superhero genre, comes the first shot of Pamela Anderson's Invisible Woman, a parody of an attractive woman. Look below the cut for another new character for the film, who looks just as suspiciously like an old character played by... / Continue →
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First he mimicked the look of Short Circuit's Johnny 5, now he's pilfering the Rubik's Cube antics of Michel Gondry. What will WALL-E steal next? Our hearts, of course (and eight to twelve dollars). 'Wall-E' featured in Total Film Magazine [ONTD]... / Continue →
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With a title that makes such a deliberate, untimely pop culture reference, I fully expected that the poster for Morgan Spurlock's Where in the World is Osama bin Laden would again allude to its namesake--the old PBS show, or even older video game, or The Today Show's excuse to ... / Continue →
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1. Vantage Point - Promising eight strangers and eight distinct points of view, the thriller earned $24 million despite stealing the concept from Jenna Jameson Does 8 Strangers with Cameras. 2. Jumper - Teenage boys flock to theaters, paying $12.7 million in the hopes of that... / Continue →
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"So, this will be like the fourth film I've made to feature your song 'Gimme Shelter', and since this is a documentary entirely about your band, think you could toss me one this time--gratis?" "Not a chance in the world, old man." More here.... / Continue →
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The X-Files 2 teaser premiered at WonderCon this weekend (as did, surely, several costumes of that anime guy with the giant cross), and some tireless bootleggier was on-hand to make sure we get to enjoy a blurry facsimile of it. I can barely tell what's going on, but the crowd ... / Continue →
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Like a cold compress for your still-raging Oscar Fever, here's the complete winner list from last night. Settle your bets and rejoin society.... / Continue →
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10:05 - How have they made us hold our collective breath for two hours, waiting expectantly for the winner of Best Sound Editing? A deserved win--those Bourne Ultimatum people really made those tire squeals sing. 10:07 - Something else I noticed about The Bourne Ultimatum: not... / Continue →
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9:03 - It was torturous how they made Amy Adams go out there, alone, in the middle of the stage, to sing this cheerful song. That made it sort of enjoyable. 9:09 - The Golden Compass winning over Pirates of the Caribbean and Transformers: an organized atheist conspiracy? 9:12... / Continue →
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8:00 - Now that I'm actually sitting down to watch this, I'm having some second thoughts. Catching the tail-end of the Barbara Walters Oscars special was a harsh reminder of the three-hour marathon of self-indulgent I've signed up for. And how long has Harrison Ford (her interv... / Continue →
