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We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but have you seen the price of a ticket these days? That’s the real “ugly truth” at the multiplex. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Awesome title. Sounds like a Sam Raimi movie. Awesome dialogue: “I need more corpses, and I need them now.” Well, who doesn’t? Awesome concept: a comedy about graverobbing is what the world has been waiting for. It’s nice to see that Dominic Monaghan has not let Lost … more…
Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from one of the DVDs in my collection (and it’s definitely from a movie, not a TV show). Guess the movie for fun and, well, fun. No prizes, just bragging rights. But hey: one guess per comment — no fair hogging all the guesses.
I’m trying to figure out when ‘romantic comedies’ turned into ‘let’s throw two really despicable and unpleasant people together in the first act so they can hate on each other through the second act until they magically fall in love in the third act.’
Oh, how I wish this was a knowing parody, not an unwitting one. All the overbaked tropes of the genre are deployed: the “scary” music, the “menacing” camera angles, the telegraphing every boo.
A Time magazine poll this week asked “Now that Walter Cronkite has passed on, who is America’s most trusted newscaster?” The results: Jon Stewart: 44% Brian Williams: 29% Charlie Gibson: 19% Katie Couric: 7% What scares me more than the fact that the state of journalism is so pathetic these days that court jester Jon … more…
We interrupt today’s regularly scheduled retro-ad Web Video of the Day to bring you this breaking news — Twilight moms and Twilight teens rumble at Comic Con: (Get the whole sordid story at the Los Angeles Times’ blog Hero Complex.)
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I so thought Announcer Guy was gonna say this island was “as beautiful as it is deadly.” Oh, man, does the trailer give away the fact that Tim Olyphant is the killer?… [waits] Ah, it’s not meant to be a secret: Olyphant is not a secret psycho: … more…
Before I get flamed, let me be clear: I’m not dissing World of Warcraft when I say that I have no choice but to wonder what the hell the point of a World of Warcraft movie could possibly be (beyond the obvious mercenary one of cashing in on the name, of course). We’re gonna find … more…
I told you, I told you!
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