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question of the day: Who should play Moe in the Farrelly Brothers’ Three Stooges movie?

Wed, Apr 06, 2011
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Peter and Bobby Farrelly have cast MadTV’s Will Sasso as Curly and Will & Grace’s Sean Hayes as Larry. Will it be someone from the small screen as Moe, too? And who should it be?

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interesting: U.S. embargo for ‘Rio’

Tue, Apr 05, 2011
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Since it’s been all embargo news here lately (or at least it feels like it), here’s the flip side of the nonsense…

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trailer break: ‘Fast Five (aka Fast & Furious Five)’

Tue, Apr 05, 2011
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Vin Diesel and The Rock in the same movie? Is that even legal?

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another mysterious U.K. embargo: ‘Hanna’

Mon, Apr 04, 2011
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It makes no damn sense at all. There are already reviews up at Rotten Tomatoes!

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trailer break: ‘Soul Surfer’

Mon, Apr 04, 2011
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Wow! What an inspirational movie! What? You mean that’s not the movie? That’s just an ad for the movie?

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question of the day: So who *will* direct the film adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s ‘American Gods’?

Mon, Apr 04, 2011
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On Friday I posted an April Fool’s QOTD in which I suggested that Michael Bay was about to begin production on a ten-part 3D miniseries version of Neil Gaimain’s novel American Gods. As it turns out, I was unwittingly echoing Gaiman, who only a week earlier had announced that, indeed, a movie based on the book is in the works…

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trailer break: ‘Cave of Forgotten Dreams’

Fri, Apr 01, 2011
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“Let’s go see the new 3D Werner Herzog movie!” Truly, that must be one of the most unexpected sentences ever.

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trailer break: ‘Rubber’ (redband)

Thu, Mar 31, 2011
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Little tire hates bunnies. Little tire blows things up with its mind, er, tread, um, something.

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trailer break: ‘Mr. Popper’s Penguins’

Wed, Mar 30, 2011
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I ask this in all sincerity: What the fuck?

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question of the day: Are geeks to blame for ‘Sucker Punch’?

Wed, Mar 30, 2011
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Jonathan London at Geekscape has posted a downright desperate screed attempting to defend Zack Snyder and his Sucker Punch by simultaneously insisting that the film is not terrible, and also that if geeks hate the film it means they hate themselves. Oh, and we’re just jealous of Snyder, anyway.

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