December 18, 2011 - December 24, 2011 Archives
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If you've been in a coma for the last year and need to figure out what movies to add to your Netflix queue, catch up on the quick with Sleepy Skunk's descriptively-titled "2011 Movie Trailer Mashup." Arranged by theme and featuring such memorable quotes as Contagion's hilarious... / Continue →
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Ah, nothing screams melodrama like a white teacher determined to help inner-city students. Well, nothing except maybe actual melodramatic screaming. Not one to risk losing any melodrama to subtlety, American History X director Tony Kaye crams both in this trailer for Detachment... / Continue →
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Despite painfully apologizing for splitting up by-mail and streaming into two, costlier options, and then again painfully apologizing for trying to make the by-mail service a separate entity with a really stupid name, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings will still pay a price for his bon... / Continue →
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Seth Rogen has come on to produce and likely star in Disney's The B-Team, an action comedy about a top spy's support team of tech guys and researchers, who are forced to rescue said spy when he's kidnapped. The studio bought the pitch from the writers of Chasing Liberty three y... / Continue →
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Promising a more tangible distance between awesome explosions and the delicate archway of Scarlett Johansson's parted thighs, Disney has announced that the May 4th release of The Avengers will be presented in 3D as well as boring old 2D. Because apparently it wasn't going to be... / Continue →
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New in theaters by Friday: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Director: David Fincher Starring: Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig, Christopher Plummer Good if you want to see: the book you read on the plane brought to life for the second time--now edgier, and in English, and with shockin... / Continue →
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Back when Ridley Scott was tossing around the idea of Prometheus, long before it was going by such a demigodly title, the idea was for the film to be a prequel to Alien, finally explaining why there's that so-called "space jockey" character reclining in a weird chair in the fir... / Continue →
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The kind of photo I can only assume you get if you choose the non-erotic "spot the difference!" game at the bar, the above image is an official behind-the-scenes look at Tom Tykwer's Wachowski-produced adaptation of Cloud Atlas. The film reportedly just wrapped, and as a very s... / Continue →
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"Find me a woman," commands Ed Harris, his face apparently grafted onto John McCain's rigid form. Sadly, the rest of the trailer for HBO's Game Change does not delve into the many clandestine, sacrificial sex brides of the 2008 presidential campaign. Instead, we get campaign ad... / Continue →
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Adding to his already busy schedule of working around the clock, Harrison Ford has agreed to join Gavin Hood's adaptation of Ender's Game--thus elevating that film to the dubious level of "a Harrison Ford movie," not just "the next one from the guy who crapped out Wolverine." F... / Continue →
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Going where even Etsy hasn't dared to go (yet), Conan O'Brien last night celebrated the beginning of Hanukkah with a tradition sure to catch on among orthodox scientific sadists: the Human Centipede Menorah, a equal reminder of when the menorah's oil miraculously stretched acro... / Continue →
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Now that Mother has stroked everyone's hair long enough to calm them down from The Hobbit trailer, here's the next step in your UNEXPECTED JOURNEY: the film's poster, featuring a lovely tiled floor, circular door, and star Martin Freeman's hobbit hair.... / Continue →
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The Academy Awards statuette Orson Welles won for his Citizen Kane screenplay has at last found a home with someone who can gesture to it when guests come over and say, "See that little golden fucker? Orson Welles won that fer writin' them words that Rosebud was a goddamn SLED!... / Continue →
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Citing the need "to service all of these character relationships" that have always been the hallmark of the Fast/Furious series, Vin Diesel has confirmed the rumors that there will indeed be a Fast Seven to procede the not-yet-shooting Fast Six. Talking to The Hollywood Reporte... / Continue →
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Speaking to MTV about his upcoming Star Trek 2, director J.J. Abrams revealed that his next film's lens flares will fly off the screen and probably making you go blind through the magic of 3D. Though he isn't planning to shoot in 3D, he'll be using the process that's sometimes ... / Continue →
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It was in 2004 that Peter Jackson completed the Lord of the Rings trilogy, delivering what would eventually, through his extended editions, become over 11 hours of high fantasy storytelling to keep us company instead of women for the next eight years. Now, at long last--followi... / Continue →
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Continuing to increase his own legend while further relegating Ghostbusters 3 to the realm of myth, Bill Murray has reportedly sent Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis a shredded copy of the latest sequel script they sent him for approval. And to reiterate that--while he's cool doing ... / Continue →
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Left to right: "Fuuuuuuuuuck!!!" "Fuuuuuuuuuck!!!" "Fuuuuuuuuuck!!!" "We're best friends!" "Fuuuuuuuuuck!!!" Below, one most poster, featuring Super-Jump Sam Worthington.... / Continue →
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If you haven't been watching Derek Waters' infrequent but ever-enjoyable Drunk History web series, it's time to start now with this special Christmas edition. In each episode, someone getting seriously liquored up then attempts to recite a previously-learned history lesson; mea... / Continue →
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The Bronx man who uploaded a nearly-finalized workprint of X-Men Origins: Wolverine has been sentenced to a year in prison for exposing people to the farcical action film more than a month before they needed to be. In March 2009, 49-year-old Gilberto Sanchez--whose screen name... / Continue →
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With Kim Jong-il's recent death making news for its possibly-huge ramifications to North Korea, the world, and indeed, the Kim Jong-il Looking at Things blog, Sacha Baron Cohen is using the Supreme Leader's decision to become mortal as an opportunity to promote the similarly-cr... / Continue →
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released their list of the thirty-nine songs still in contention to be nominated for Best Original Song in the 84th Annual Academy Awards--a list that reveals that Academy members not only remember Gnomeo & Juliet but were dan... / Continue →
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With rival fairy tale film Snow White and the Huntsman opening within months of its release, Relativity's Mirror Mirror has a tough task of making it look like the superior Snow White option over the one with a really cool, droopy Silver Surfer. Thus far, it has taken to that t... / Continue →
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The official trailer for Prometheus won't be here until Thursday, but already a Ridley Scott-shaped globule has formed upon iTunes trailers--a warning to grab a sweat sock with which to catch the imminent explosion of alien goo before it gets all over your face, like it did wit... / Continue →
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Upset that everyone thought his cool drawings of giant scorpions and shit were lame, Clash of the Titans has, like many a teased eighth-grader, taken solace in growing its hair out and listening to industrial metal. Tuning out all the parents and critics who just didn't underst... / Continue →
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Batman! Catwoman! Bane! Spectator sports! Chanting! Matthew Modine! One of those silver serving dish covers Bugs Bunny cartoons would always place over a full turkey, to hold in the wiggly steam lines! The full Dark Knight Rises trailer is here, and it's real:... / Continue →
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Containing new footage and the German-speaking Captain America the U.S. government has always rightfully feared, Deutschland's trailer for The Avengers is now online. As with the domestic trailer for Joss Whedon's superhero team-up film, it's still mostly a lot of explosive car... / Continue →
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Speaking to probably-not-that-reliable British paper The People, Bond producer Michael G. Wilson made an unofficial offer for Daniel Craig to keep on being Bond for another five films--which would push Craig beyond Roger Moore's record of playing Bond seven progressively unconv... / Continue →
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As you likely know, this weekend, a six-minute Dark Knight Rises prologue premiered before select showings of Tom Cruise's latest jogging video, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol. To preserve the integrity of the IMAX format the sequence was shot in, it was only shown in lar... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - $40 million--enough to secure the top spot but still $22 million less than the original's opening weekend. I guess everyone's already getting tired of associating one of fiction's greatest detectives with the wor... / Continue →
