April 20, 2008 - April 26, 2008 Archives
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How about this new trailer? It's one thing to offend Israelis and anyone with a sense of humor, but to bring Technotronic's 1989 hit "Pump Up the Jam" as a backing track to this disaster? Now you're messing with Ya Kid K. Not cool, Zohan. Not cool. It is here.... / Continue →
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Man, it was really great how that guy with the ball-gag was getting hacked up with a chainsaw, but I can't help but wish my children could partake in this, but at a level of violence that wouldn't permanently scar them. Would anyone actually say that? You wouldn't think, but ap... / Continue →
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I think it's really cool that the producers of Wanted gave a freshman photography major the chance try out their new roll of black & white film to make a poster. I'm just confused as to why there isn't a single, dramatically-placed rose or the playful dancing of cigarette smoke... / Continue →
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Guillermo del Toro, director of Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth--and the same man who, at NYCC, told a 15-year-old that "the pubes are popping"--has been formally announced as the director of The Hobbit and its planned sequel. This had been rumored as a nearly sure thing for some t... / Continue →
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Talking at the Spirit panel at New York Comic Con, the lecherous director Frank Miller (strangely, while dressed as a unshaven Spirit) spoke of his unending admiration for his mentor Will Eisner's comic, and of his hope of faithfully recreating it on the screen. So I find it a ... / Continue →
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As was rumored over a year ago, NBC insiders are saying Conan's Late Night crown will indeed be placed on the bed-headed hair of Jimmy Fallon, with the guitar-playing comic taking over next February. Why? I have no idea. Personally, I don't really have anything against the guy,... / Continue →
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Clearly exhausted from the months of viral marketing, the Dark Knight campaign team has resorted to stealing slogans from "No Fear" shirts. It's All Part of the Plan [Why So Serious]... / Continue →
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To everyone else who got excited about that dim, blurry Venture Bros. season three teaser shot from the lap of a fanboy: here's the real, non-lap-shot version! It ends up being much better when you can actually see and hear what's going on. Who knew?... / Continue →
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Usually when I hear the familiar piano riff of the Sex and the City theme, I have an immediate Pavlovian response, my hands punch frantically at the remote, and the channel is changed before I have to hear even a note of the vibraphone part. But today when that jaunty tune ente... / Continue →
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35 years ago, "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" was at the top of the charts. Its performer, Jim Croce, died in a plane crash the same year. It was tragic he wouldn't live to fully enjoy his fame, but perhaps more tragic that he'll never get to see the "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" action-comedy... / Continue →
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We tell ourselves there's nothing to fear... but sometimes we're wrong. Sometimes, when we're standing stiffly in the middle of the living room, pointing at our bare feet, the Scarecrow is hiding behind us in the shadows, right by the upright piano we have in our vacation cabin... / Continue →
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What happens when the adorable robot from Pixar's WALL-E runs across a randomly-placed magnet while traversing a white void? Comedy! That fella just can't get that sombitch off him! He's just too made of metal! A 23-second short, below the cut.... / Continue →
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Almost everyone likes to see young people f***ing. Particularly when the alternatives are seeing old people f***ing or seeing absolutely no one f***ing--and I know I, for one, occasionally need to sit alone in my room and see someone f***ing. Thus, it was only logical that some... / Continue →
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Remember the "human-like" versions of Mario and Homer from a while ago? Well pixeloo is at it again, this time with a smoking hot Jessica Rabbit. There, I said it. She's not real and she's hot. Can you see what I'm doing now? I'm doing that thing that the cartoon wolf does wher... / Continue →
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What the hey--John Cusack is Igor? I don't think so. Look at that awkward grin, those sunken, soulless eyes, the perfectly smooth features, the unfortunate status of being relevant only through someone else's accomplishments. Clearly David Gest is Igor. Igor Poster [IMPA]... / Continue →
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Sometimes when you're watching a movie, you can't help but notice a fake ad for a fake product airing in the background and think, man, why didn't I get to make that commercial? Zack Snyder has heard your pleas! The director is asking for submissions to his YouTube-affiliated "... / Continue →
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In the world of the Pevensie siblings, it's been only a year since they traveled beyond the world of coat storage into the magical land of Narnia, but in the Christian-undertoned universe of talking lions, it's been 1,300. They find much is different: that bar with the dollar P... / Continue →
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Here's a shot from Woody Allen's latest, still-untitled lasagna of neuroses that was shooting in the Lower East Side Tuesday. The film appears to feature Allen's typical pretty young girl-meets-old neurotic Jewish guy dynamic, this time starring Evan Rachel Wood as pretty girl ... / Continue →
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At the New York Comic Con this weekend, some lucky attendees were given the above poster to sell off on eBay. It's kind of surprising she can hold up a giant gun with that spindly, malnourished arm, isn't it? Also kind of surprising: where that knee is coming from. NY Con Want... / Continue →
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In a blunder that will surely birth many a nerdy racial joke, the Polish division of Warner Bros. has let leak the new trailer to Star Wars: The Clone Wars, meant to be screened before Speed Racer. It looks surprisingly entertaining--probably because it doesn't show any of the ... / Continue →
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Where would you be without a semi-daily update of photographs from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? I imagine it would be a sad existence, devoid of the knowledge of if scenes exist where Indy gets stuck in quicksand (they do!); if our hero ever stands backli... / Continue →
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One of the more disappointing moments of the NY Comic Con was that seeing the Warner Bros. "surprise trailer" meant missing the Venture Brothers panel. I thought I got the slightly better deal when the surprise ended up being a new Dark Knight trailer, but had second thoughts w... / Continue →
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Warner Bros. was scheduled to have a surprise panel at the con, and I had heard from a few people that this surprise was going to be something to do with Speed Racer. So it wasn't that much of a shock when the husky kid playing Spritle took the stage and started talking about t... / Continue →
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The Forbidden Kingdom - After taking in $21.4 million, I'd say this Jet Li/Jackie Chan team-up really jump-kicked the competition, alluding to their martial arts skills. 2. Forgetting Sarah Marshall - $17.7 million, hinting that the close friends and co-workers of the talented... / Continue →
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Yes. Yes he can. It was a hard-fought war, with bright hair and teeth clashing like bleached swords, but in the end the victory went to the faux-Aryan on the left. And don't forget, you can see all the intense hamminess in action in the trailer. New Tropic Thunder Photos [/Fil... / Continue →
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My favorite radical dude blogger, Aaron, has a new post up on the Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li production blog. If you aren't familiar with Aaron, he's super awesome, and he's not above flaunting it. His hip, young vocabulary is incomprehensible to old squares, with wo... / Continue →
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Despite suffering what he described as "grotesque weight gain," director Guillermo Del Toro was in attendance at the New York Comic Con to discuss Hellboy II: The Golden Army--and he brought along creator Mike Mignola and stars Ron Pearlman, Selma Blair, and Doug Jones to sit m... / Continue →
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Nothing is more awkward than when a giant, green, shirtless man wrecks your expensive military equipment and you have to stand there and sort out all the insurance details with him. New Incredible Hulk Images [Empire]... / Continue →
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This weekend, a cloud of nerdiness loomed darkly over New York's Javits Center, bringing with it a storm of body odor, sword salesman, and more costumed, overweight versions of famous characters than Frank TV. It was the New York Comic Con, and I braved the crowds and movie pan... / Continue →
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Continuing the trend started with the sectional outdoor art, the new poster for The Spirit reinforces the idea that this guy's city is definitely screaming. Because nothing is more appealing than a f***ing nag of a city. You can click above to get the super-high-resolution vers... / Continue →
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I think the largest obstacle Frank Miller's adaptation of The Spirit will have the overcome is that, although the title is undoubtedly a classic, it's not particularly well known to modern audiences. People are still wondering, what's it all about? I think this new character po... / Continue →
