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Year: 2012

Contraband (trailer)

Tue, Jan 10, 2012
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Get yer Michael Bay-rections ready, boys.

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question of the day: Has the Academy just made it too difficult for documentaries to qualify for the Oscars?

Tue, Jan 10, 2012
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Should the critics at The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times be the gatekeepers for an awards organization they aren’t members of?

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London photo of the day: respectful worship…

Tue, Jan 10, 2012
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…of the tall two-legged monkeys who feed us and take us for walkies.

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your WTF of the day: what Darth Vader eats, I guess

Mon, Jan 09, 2012
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Holy God, that black bun has got to be one of the least appetizing things I’ve ever seen in my life.

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watch it: “Pingu’s THE THING”

Mon, Jan 09, 2012
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The late 80s/early 90s European cartoon about penguins did not feature shapeshifting aliens, to my knowledge…

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Doctor Who thing of the day: custom Lego TARDIS

Mon, Jan 09, 2012
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It’s not bigger on the inside, alas, but it does have an inside…

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Upside Down (trailer)

Mon, Jan 09, 2012
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Kirsten Dunst says “kind of like an accessible Brazil.” Brazil isn’t accessible? *facepalm*

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question of the day: Should we applaud successful movie marketing when the movie being marketed is a stinker?

Mon, Jan 09, 2012
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I’m angry as a filmgoer, and on behalf of all those filmgoers who plunked down for a ticket to The Devil Inside this weekend and then felt like they’d been ripped off.

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London photo of the day: pagan meets police

Mon, Jan 09, 2012
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The Horned Goddess casts a jovial spell over a city guard.

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The Hobbit is officially more awesome than The Dark Knight Rises

Sun, Jan 08, 2012
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But Bilbo Baggins appears to be officially less awesome than Bane. If you listen to the Twitter, at least…

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