September 18, 2011 - September 24, 2011 Archives
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Everyone knows Jim Henson and Frank Oz, but how about the guy whose voice and fur-covered hand defined everyone's favorite red knismolagniac, Elmo? Well, it's time to learn that guy's inspiring story with Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey, Constance Marks' documentary that foll... / Continue →
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With Netflix/Qwikster busy reworking break-up letters into awkward apologies to its customers, DISH Network and their ill-fated partner, Blockbuster, have decided now would be a good time to announce their rival service, Blockbuster Movie Pass, a movie package that stands to ma... / Continue →
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Adam Sandler's twin sister is also Adam Sandler. / Continue →
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From /Film, here is Human Centipede 2's first poster, which subtly notes the film's elevation to a "full sequence." The secret to its fullness? Adding more naked people to be the centipede's legs, apparently:... / Continue →
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The ridiculous Blu-ray alterations to the Star Wars films were met with heavy sighs and outrage from the online fan community and George Lucas of the past, as well, but in the end, George Lucas of the present could not give less of an ess, because everyone still bought all of t... / Continue →
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New in theaters: Moneyball Director: Bennett Miller Starring: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Robin Wright Good if you want to see: an A-list leading man, funny-looking bespectacled sidekick, and mounds of third-act redemption--now with baseball instead of Tom Cruise and Cuba Gooding J... / Continue →
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- The news that Ghostbusters would be returning to theaters in October now has more specificity: it's coming back to theaters October 13, 20, and 27--the last three Thursdays of the month--and it will officially be attended by a sweaty but exuberant lot wearing relevant apparel... / Continue →
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Continuing the exciting recent trend of films being named as painfully on-the-nose as the English language allows, Man on a Ledge involves this dude being on a ledge. More specifically, it involves David Hasselhoff's Baywatch Nights stunt double (Sam Worthington) getting on a l... / Continue →
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Just last month, Joel Schumacher's Trespass revealed its bounty of C-grade Nicolas Cage-protects-his-family action, but already another contender has emerged to quite possibly swipe away that film's Best of Breed title: Justice. While no more boring or convoluted than its Schum... / Continue →
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The first Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trailer came with a pulse-pounding soundtrack and evidence to heavily suggest the teaser's initial "leak" online was actually a carefully-considered plan by Sony to make us feel cool for viewing contraband. This new, full trailer goes a bit... / Continue →
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With Kenneth Branagh shirking directorial duties on the second Thor film to instead do something much more Branagh-y, Marvel's search for someone to direct their mallet-wielding god movie has reportedly led to Patty Jenkins. A previous report had indicated Marvel was looking fo... / Continue →
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Not content to let Almost Famous, Gnomeo and Juliet, Timon and Pumbaa get all the credit for his songs, Elton John has decided it's about time his life story makes it to the big screen. So, he and his Rocket Pictures partner, David Furnish, are teaming up with Billy Elliot and ... / Continue →
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From EntertainmentWeekly, here's the first official look at Dark Shadows' main case, which includes Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Chloe Moretz, Michelle Pfeiffer, and, of course, J. Depp, still paying off his life debt to Tim Burton. If that first, crazy-looking peek at Depp... / Continue →
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Look out, CGI wolves, now you have a bigger threat to contend with than abstinent vampires. It's Liam Neeson! And though a plane crash has left him stranded in the Alaskan wilderness, he has not given up. Quite the opposite, he has busted up some mini-bar booze, electrical tape... / Continue →
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It's a film commemorating and reenacting the 100th anniversary of China's Xinhai Revolution, and it's the 100th film of Jackie Chan! And that makes Jackie Chan cry. :'( Trailer:... / Continue →
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Realizing that his Abraham Lincoln film clearly needed an insane-looking gaunt presence, Steven Spielberg has added our newest Freddy Krueger, Jackie Earle Haley, to the cast of Lincoln. Haley will play Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States during the U.S... / Continue →
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Look, Justin Lin would love to make you a movie involving a deadly learning computer whose aged skin now hangs loose from being stretched with barbarian-like muscle, but if you jerk-offs are going to dick around about giving him a script for said movie, just forget it; he'll ma... / Continue →
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Remember how Sylvester Stallone, director Simon West, and other producers of The Expendables 2 were hoping to get Nicolas Cage, John Travolta, Taylor Lautner, and another handful of people for their film? Well, I guess that's not going to so well, so they're just going to get S... / Continue →
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Having proven himself a capable thief in The Town, Jeremy Renner is attached to once again rob some crap in King of Heists, Black Bear Pictures' adaptation of J. North Conway's non-fiction book of the same name. Renner will play George Leonidas Leslie, one of the U.S. history's... / Continue →
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- So here's how Jason Statham will look playing the eponymous role in Parker: like the bad guy trying to snatch up the old farmhouse and drill for oil in every family film about that happening. - In a new interview with Ryan Gosling, the super-awesome driver reportedly reveale... / Continue →
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From Gary Hustwit--director of Helvetica and Objectified--comes a new, artfully-shot documentary to make you seem knowledgable to your design-y friends: Urbanized, the first film to make you question the longstanding truism that nothing is higher than artitect. What about city ... / Continue →
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Despite all the 3Ds James Cameron crammed into Avatar, the world of Pandora just wasn't quite as REAL as he'd hoped it would be. So, Disney's going to walk it the rest of the way into reality with some amusement park bullshit and probably a blue, animatronic Sigourney Weaver. A... / Continue →
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Finally surrendering to public demand that the Bluths once again present themselves as a family unit, Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, David Cross, Portia de Rossi, Tony Hale, Alia Shawkat, Jeffrey Tambor, and Jessica Walter, and Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurw... / Continue →
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As surely as the seasons change, so too do Lars von Trier's thoughts drift to how he might moderately offend some people with awkward statements about Nazis. It was back in May, as the mercury began to rise in the northern hemisphere's thermometers, that the Danish director fir... / Continue →
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Our dreams of watching the dramatic tale of Bonnie and Clyde unfold with the stars of Lizzie McGuire and Air Bud have been dashed. Due to scheduling problems, Hilary Duff and Kevin Zegers have dropped out of The Story of Bonnie and Clyde, the project they were first attached to... / Continue →
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Alright, Leonardo DiCaprio. If, throughout Clint Eastwood's Hoover biopic J. Edgar, you manage to keep your voice as serious sounding as it is in this trailer, fine, we'll let Eddie Murphy give you that Academy Award you want so bad. But we're really going to be listening that ... / Continue →
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The first trailer for The Thing had plenty of "gotcha!" scares and CGI overuse, but two things it was missing, outside of any sort of necessity? The freakish creature mutations of the original, and Wilford Brimley freaking the fuck out. With this red-band trailer, they start to... / Continue →
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- As noted by numerous sources, though Netflix is launching the Qwikster name, they do not have the Qwikster Twitter account. That belongs to Jason Castillo, a frequently "bored as shyt" gentleman whose icon features a pot-smoking Elmo. Whoops. - To better capitalize on Eddie ... / Continue →
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Frances Bay, grandma to Happy Gilmore and dozens of other fictional characters, has reportedly died in Los Angeles due to complications due to pneumonia. She was 92. Though Bay appeared in over 150 titles since 1978, she was known less for specific characters than she was for ... / Continue →
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Well, Ray Liotta, Christopher Lloyd, and Doug E. Doug are in this movie, and it's about a kid trying to set a record for making a lot of snowmen. There are a couple trailers now released for the film and, though you will certainly not enjoy them in any way, I think it's importa... / Continue →
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While the United States this weekend enjoyed once again watching Hakuna Matata in a public setting, the world's population abroad continued its support for The Smurfs looking cute enough to take the kids to. For the sixth consecutive week, the broad comedy about little blue guy... / Continue →
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Since recently splitting up streaming and by-mail movie movie delivery into separate services, Netflix has faced a public outcry against the added costs--because, seriously, people hate paying more for things--and, it was estimated last week, the company is set to lose about a ... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. The Lion King - $29.3 million. A dozen years since Home Improvement went off the air, and still the voice of Jonathan Taylor-Thomas piles 'em in. 2. Contagion - $14.5 million. Like a viral pandemic, the need to watch an increasingly-infirm Gwyneth ... / Continue →
