April 1, 2012 - April 7, 2012 Archives
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Good Friday? Make it a GREAT Friday and watch videos all day on the clock. This is a Mega Man X fan film shot by director Olan Rogers for $700. That's pretty cheap. Granted not as cheap as my roommate, but he mixes water into the milk carton to make it last longer. It's like, ... / Continue →
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There's this now: some new Avengers spots, these ones focusing on Captain America's leadership and authoritative command of when Hulk does or does not "smash." They're lacking a certain quality in comparison to the clip of Scarlett Johansson escaping chair and dress, but at thi... / Continue →
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When ordering a vodka martini in 2006's Casino Royale, then-new Bond Daniel Craig responded to the question of "shaken or stirred" with a curt, "Do I look like I give a damn?" It was the informal announcement of a new, harder-edged Bond, one who, now that he mentioned it, did h... / Continue →
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We thought the U.S. had it good with a three-dimensional Titanic with scientifically-accurate starfields, but as it turns out, South Korea is experiencing romance, non-diegetic Celine Dion, and sinking boats just a little more realistically than us. THEY'RE EXPERIENCING IT IN 4... / Continue →
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In Oliver Stone's Savages, John Carter's Taylor Kitsch and Kick-Ass star Aaron Johnson play a couple high-profile drug dealers just looking for a peaceful life of selling pot and having sex with Blake Lively--who, in the "hit it and pass it" spirit of the dealers' product, boun... / Continue →
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Man, Wes Anderson could not wait to finally use Instagram on his Android, huh? 'Moonrise Kingdom' Exclusive Vintage Photo [Yahoo]... / Continue →
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Though Marvel has yet to decide who's going to direct Captain America 2, the studio has at least figured out that they would like to start making some money on this thing within the next couple years. Marvel and parent company Walt Disney Studios have set an April 4, 2014 relea... / Continue →
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"Boo Bass" is a song (with accompanying video) that uses sounds plucked from Monsters, Inc. to form something that exists somewhere in the monstrous world of twee drum & bass, an ethereal Stomp performance, and background music for a video promoting an elegantly-designed piece ... / Continue →
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Adam Sandler is finding some new friends in Grown Ups 2's piss-filled casting pool. Last week, Project X's Oliver Cooper joined the comedy as "a frat boy-type," and yesterday Abduction leading man Taylor Lautner entered negotiations for a "fun" role. As if there are any other k... / Continue →
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Those videos of Breaking Bad and Mad Men as old school role-playing games were fun and all, but if you're going to do something as nerdy as adapting a TV show into a fake Super Nintendo RPG, shouldn't the show itself be just as nerdy? Probably not, actually. The juxtaposition b... / Continue →
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He captured America's attention with exclamation points, and now the star of CBS's ¡Rob! is ready to take the spotlight, out from under the protection of the wigs the Happy Madison costume department typically provide him. With the same pioneering spirit with which Deuce Bigalo... / Continue →
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Sure, it's just a dramatization, but it comes across as very authentic thanks to all the rapist pervert accusations being thrown around. You just know Zemeckis got that at every meeting up through Beowulf.... / Continue →
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Having lost three-time franchise star Brendan Fraser to what we'll call the curse of The Mummy (weight gain, hair loss, dwindling tolerability with every Inkheart, Extraordinary Measures, or Furry Vengeance), Universal has decided to completely restart their hugely-profitable M... / Continue →
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Last time Liam Neeson was sneering on a plane, he waited until it he hit the ground before going into killing mode, but he won't make that mistake twice. Next time, the wrath of Neeson shall be exacted in the sky, aboard an international flight, where the in-flight meal is most... / Continue →
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'Katy Perry: Part of Me' Trailer: 3D Concert Doc Peeks Behind the Double-Barrel Whipped Cream TurretHere's the first trailer for Katy Perry: Part of Me, the unofficial thematic sequel to Justin Bieber: Never Say Never that mixes the inspirational message of a Katy Perry puff piece with the garish candy-coating of a Katy Perry 3D concert. If you didn't know already, you will t... / Continue →
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Over the course of this two-minute video, you will learn an important, previously-overlooked truth about the year of Titanic's release. Strangely, that truth involves the one time Danny Glover and Joe Pesci decided they should hang out together without Mel Gibson.... / Continue →
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Buffy creator Joss Whedon is known for consistently writing strong female roles. By his own account, he is consistently asked as to why he writes such strong females, to which he has famously responded, "Because you're still asking me that question." So with Whedon directing Th... / Continue →
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When news of an Eddie Murphy-inclusive Twins sequel (titled Triplets, naturally) was released the Friday before April Fools', it had many sensibile minds asking, "Is this real?" Because it did not seem real, but if it was real, it meant we needed to figure out what brought us t... / Continue →
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The Twilight series has Robert Pattinson well trained in the arts of scowling and smirking. "Grrr, I'm a vampire," he scowls! "Now I'm happy I'm marrying my high school girlfriend," he smirks! Both skills come in handy for Bel Ami, the Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod-directed... / Continue →
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If you venture out to see Titanic's 3D re-release this month, make sure to pay special attention to the 3D stars shining in the night sky like Billy Zane's eyes beaming from behind his eyeliner: Neil deGrasse Tyson went through a lot of trouble to make sure director James Camer... / Continue →
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If you've been following along with Woody Allen's increasingly-prolonged summer abroad, you know his filmmaking/backpacking route most recently took him to Italy, where he was quick to join friends new and old--friends, who you could probably guess, were mostly attractive young... / Continue →
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Nice try intercutting various shots and angles, Hitchcock, but the internet has triumphed again. Visual artist Jeff Desom took all the courtyard shots from Rear Window, seamlessly weaved them together into a single shot, and let the events of the film play out mostly in sequenc... / Continue →
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Gerard Butler won't be the only awesome dude single-handedly saving the White House from a hostile takeover. Some other yet-to-be-determined awesome dude is also going to do that in a movie to be directed by Roland Emmerich.... / Continue →
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I don't blame Shaq for doing Kazaam. I do kind of blame him for watching it "the other day," though. It's not like it's on all the time. You really have to go out of your way to watch Kazaam.... / Continue →
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I can't imagine Tom Cruise is much of a drinker, but if you were able to get him away from Katie and Xenu for an all-night binge, the basic elements of this trailer for Rock of Ages are what I figure you would end up with: Tom Cruise strutting around with shirtless bravado, Tom... / Continue →
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No doubt influenced by the crazy popularity of Volkswagen's Vader kid commercials, Target has put together a 30-second spot that again cashes in on the fact it is always adorable to see kids in nerdy, familiar costumes. This time a group of moppets are cast in the leads of Marv... / Continue →
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The Farrelly brothers' insistence on providing belated updates on the states of mentally ill adults was not sated with The Three Stooges. They still think Dumb and Dumber's sociopathic leads have more stories to tell, more diarrhea scenes to warble through, and the sibling dire... / Continue →
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Like pretty much every piece of media promising the voice of Seth MacFarlane--save for maybe out-of-character, Sinatra-style albums promising the voice of Seth MacFarlane--enjoyment of the MacFarlane-voiced and directed Ted is going to vary widely based on personal attitudes to... / Continue →
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Well, they look pretty crummy, but here are a few new clips from The Amazing Spider-Man. They do not look so great, but they do feature exciting shattering glass intros, and they should answer some questions about what level of irreverence we should expect from our new Spider-M... / Continue →
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Typical of the film's spirit of one-upmanship between rival siblings that are actually but one entity, the Adam Sander comedy Jack and Jill has topped itself to set a new, even more impressive record of shittiness than it already set. With the Razzie Awards committee yesterday ... / Continue →
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Some six months ago, casting a remake of Sparkle with a notoriously-troubled singer who hadn't acted since a 1997 Cinderella TV movie didn't seem like such a great idea. But with Sparkle co-star Whitney Houston's life tragically ending at the age of 48, guess who's laughing now... / Continue →
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Generally speaking, online April Fool's gags are pretty bad. Someone posts a goofy, unbelievable story; we read the goofy, unbelievable story; then we either say, "Oh, right, that is fake because it's that day," or we say, "Well, I guess putting Eddie Murphy in a Twins sequel m... / Continue →
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In their effort to become the Costco of fast-talking, bordering-on-overwritten political humor, HBO is this season offering a bulk selection of verbose, foul-mouthed, politically-charged programs to any subscribers who wish to have expletives shouted at them. As previously seen... / Continue →
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As promised last week by a preview for a preview, here's the full-length trailer for Len Wiseman's Total Recall remake. This time Colin Farrell is in the lead role, playing a man whose dissatisfaction with his life leads him to harass people at bars, asking fellow drunks if th... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. The Hunger Games - $61.1 million. The film has now made nearly $365 million worldwide. My hypothesis is that The Hunger Games is very popular. 2. Wrath of the Titans - $34.2 million, barely over half what Clash of the Titans made opening weekend tw... / Continue →
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Because thoughts of one legendary modern innovator inevitably turn to thoughts of the revered architect behind Punk'd, Ashton Kutcher has been signed to star as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in a new biopic called Jobs.... / Continue →
