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trailer break: ‘Insidious’

Fri, Mar 11, 2011
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Hollywood just isn’t even pretending anymore that they’re merely recycling the same stuff over and over again.

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Seth Green, actor and nonentity in Hollywood’s CGI heaven

Thu, Mar 10, 2011
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Have you read Connie Willis’s novel Remake? Danged if this news — regarding Seth Green’s performance in Mars Needs Moms — doesn’t sound like what Willis was warning us about…

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trailer break: ‘Age of the Dragons’

Thu, Mar 10, 2011
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It’s Moby Dick. On land. With dragons. What could go wrong?

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no, I haven’t seen ‘Battle: Los Angeles’

Wed, Mar 09, 2011
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I’ll see the film on Friday, at a first showing, and have a review up asap afterward… hopefully by around 5pm London time.

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say good-bye to grownup horror movies…

Wed, Mar 09, 2011
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Guillermo del Toro refuses to make a PG-13 horror movie, and Universal freaks out…

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we are beyond satire: BP oil spill movie coming soon!

Wed, Mar 09, 2011
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Hoorah! The human spirit triumphs! No mention of all the dead marine life of the Gulf of Mexico and the destroyed economies of the Gulf Coast states. Such a downer!

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trailer break: ‘The Resident’

Wed, Mar 09, 2011
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See what happens to women when they do silly things like live on their own? They get raped and murdered and stuff.

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trailer break: ‘Tomorrow, When the War Began’

Tue, Mar 08, 2011
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It’s Red Dawn Down Under!

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trailer break: ‘Source Code’

Mon, Mar 07, 2011
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Didn’t Quantum Leap do this 20 years ago?

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this is why Hollywood movies suck so hard, and aren’t likely to get better anytime soon

Sat, Mar 05, 2011
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Please please please please read Mark Harris’s “The Day the Movies Died” at GQ. Because I don’t want to be alone in my bitter despair.

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