July 1, 2012 - July 7, 2012 Archives
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When the evil Pitch enacts a plan to turn children's dreams into permanent nightmares--an inevitable change that really shouldn't transition until at least early adulthood--Santa, Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny and Sandman join forces to fight the threat in DreamWorks Animation's la... / Continue →
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After 266 days of recording men pretending to be dwarves, principal photography on Peter Jackson's two-part The Hobbit adaptation has drawn to a close.... / Continue →
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In the previous, extremely-Takeny trailer for Taken 2, loving father/murderer Liam Neeson grumbled, "Your mother is gonna be Taken," both warning his daughter of coming danger and alerting audiences that this sure is a Taken movie. However, if you believe Liam Neeson's re-worde... / Continue →
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Written, directed and edited by Ruairi Robinson for 45k euro, Blinky is a sharp-looking 12-minute short that stars Where the Wild Things Are's Max Records as an petulant, spoiled child whose relationship with an indentured companion robot deteriorates in some fairly surprising ... / Continue →
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The editor who put together the Confrontation and Love Connection mash-ups has now turned his gaze to the blockbusters of 2012, delivering a montage of the year's big-budget, explosion-heavy spectaculars that all seem to involve Bruce Willis. Have a look below, and let this be ... / Continue →
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In The Loneliest Planet, Gael Garcia Bernal and Hani Furstenberg play a young engaged couple that hire a guide and explore Georgia's Caucasus Mountains, having just the kind of beautiful adventure the Georgia Tourist Bureau advertised in their "See Georgia! (Not the state)" cam... / Continue →
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New 'Dark Knight Rises' Posters and TV Spot, Just To Make Sure You're Aware of This New Batman MovieJust a couple more weeks until The Dark Knight Rises hits theaters, but Warner Bros. isn't letting up, still dousing us in enough marketing to soak Batman to his midriff. The studio has now released the above banner as well as another poster and minute-long spot you can see bel... / Continue →
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Informative for both the die-hard Devo devotee and the person who makes the Devo devotee angry for calling Devo "the 'Whip It' guys?", Are We Not Men? is an authorized, feature-length documentary that gives a never-before-seen look at Akron, Ohio's most enduring, influential po... / Continue →
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The way MGM figures it, if anyone is going to make an ill-conceived prequel/sequel to Raging Bull, it's going to be them. And they're pretty sure that statement is legally enforceable.... / Continue →
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In March of next year, District 9 Neill Blomkamp will once again stick a weirdo sci-fi arm in a torso of socio-economic criticism with Elysium, a year 2159-set tale depicting a society that's been divided between a lovely space station for the privileged and plain ol' shitty Ea... / Continue →
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If you caught the new Spider-Man and felt it was inaugurating a new trilogy that could again be tossed away in case of a disappointing third act, well done: you were right!... / Continue →
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IFC's Why Stop Now assigns a typically-awkward, borderline autistic Jesse Eisenberg two familiar errands for the day: take prescription drug-addicted mother (Melissa Leo) to rehab, and audition for piano school. Unfortunately for our gawky, mop-headed hero, the former request g... / Continue →
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Offering such long-familiar elements as the Emerald City, the Yellow-Brick Road, and a role for James Franco, here's the poster for Sam Raimi's Oz: The Great and Powerful. The film is said to work as a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, detailing for us the days before the so-called ... / Continue →
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Normally at this time, I would post the Spanish-language version of President Bill Pullman's Independence Day speech, and we would all be inspired to fight off any alien threats this Fourth of July. Unfortunately, 20th Century Fox decided this is the year to strip President Bil... / Continue →
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A Pizza Planet delivery truck has appeared in every Pixar film except The Incredibles, and, in a triumph for anachronisms, the tradition has continued into the recently-released Brave. The studio is apparently pretty proud of this, as today they sent out the above photo to reve... / Continue →
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Perfectly timed to make it look like Tom Cruise used his divorce and 50th birthday as a desperate, sadly-typical excuse to buy that muscle car he's always had his eye on, here's the trailer for Jack Reacher. In the film, Cruise plays a hard-ass ex-army cop, and in this trailer,... / Continue →
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Though Aykroyd in February admitted another Ghostbusters sequel was looking increasingly unlikely, and in March announced he'd started work on a new project with a different SNL buddy, he has still not given up on his dream of bleeding his franchise like the walls of the 53rd p... / Continue →
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Andy Griffith, whose longrunning television work rendered both lawyers and lawman into endearing, folksy father figures, died early this morning at the age of 86.... / Continue →
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Directed by Dirty Projectors' warbling frontman David Longstreth, Hi Custodian is an impressionistic-looking film that, according to Pitchfork, stars Longstreth and his band of fellow musicians/harmonizers in such roles as a yōkai (a shapeshifting Japanese ghost, duh), a truck ... / Continue →
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Currently in production in Croatia, Oliver Hirschbiegel's Caught in Flight casts Naomi Watts as Princess Diana in the final years before that tragic car crash made her the subject of a touching Elton John song renovation. Here's a first look at Watts in costume, and as you can ... / Continue →
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A dramatized social experiment patty loosely wrapped in a wax paper of thriller, Compliance asks how far mankind--even the noble fast food shift manager--can be cruelly manipulated through empowerment and a blind obedience to authority figures. Your freshman-year psychology cla... / Continue →
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Thanks to Vulture, we can now enjoy the recently-inaugurated third season of Louis CK's amazing FX series with a new level of exhausted furrow recognition with the above Louis CK Pain Chart. Kudos to illustrator/paper-doll-maker Kyle Hilton for somehow making this study aid as ... / Continue →
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Inspired by the dutiful nerd who laid out clips from every available Doctor Who into a single, comprehensive collection, someone has put together a 14-minute video that the editor says uses clips from "every single movie that MST3k ever riffed. And as many shorts as I could get... / Continue →
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As the trailer for The Tall Man opens, a small girl is giving Jessica Biel, and us, a little history lesson on her small town of Cold Rock. It's been "dead" for six years, she says, and while many residents initially attributed the closing of a local mine for the lull in activi... / Continue →
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As we continue to make this a summer of stop-motion surfing, here's an award-winning, five-minute film in which an anthropomorphic bookmark catches some stylized waves through the pages of a hardcover. Watch it below, but be warned: if it leaves you subconsciously equating read... / Continue →
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Your weekend box office: 1. Ted - $54.1 million. Apparently Mark Wahlberg is more appealing paired with a CGI bear than with Will Ferrell, Leonardo DiCaprio, killer trees, or basically anyone or anything besides super-intelligent apes. 2. Magic Mike - A higher-than-expected $... / Continue →
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Though Quentin Tarantino was still shooting and even casting Django Unchained as little as two weeks ago, the Weinstein Company is apparently not worried about the film meeting its December release. Here's a 60-second spot that once again proclaims a Christmas release, and this... / Continue →
