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trailer break: ‘Limitless’

Tue, Jan 11, 2011
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I knew it! Bradley Cooper is not a normal human being: he’s super-duper posthuman awesome. No mere frail mortal human could possibly look like that.

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trailer break: ‘Sucker Punch’

Fri, Jan 07, 2011
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Hey, it’s a newfangled chicks-in-prison exploitation flick! We haven’t had one of those in a while.

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trailer break: ‘Plastic Planet’

Thu, Jan 06, 2011
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Mmmm, plastic in the water. Plastic in our blood. Progress!

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trailer break: ‘The Illusionist’

Wed, Jan 05, 2011
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A new film from the director of The Triplets of Belleville has gotta be a good thing…

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trailer break: ‘The Rite’

Tue, Jan 04, 2011
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Will the 187,543rd movie about exorcism be any more rationale than 99.99 percent of the rest of them? One hopes…

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question of the day: O Hollywood, where art thou?

Mon, Jan 03, 2011
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Does Hollywood truly intend to be more creative, more original… or is this just a clever new marketing tactic?

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trailer break: ‘No Strings Attached’

Mon, Jan 03, 2011
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I bet there isn’t a single giant evil marshmallow mascot stomping on a single church in the whole movie to break up the monotony…

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trailer break: ‘The Heart Specialist’

Fri, Dec 31, 2010
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The trailer looks like a bad parody from a particularly depressing episode of Saturday Night Live. (Ed Asner?)

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question of the day: What was the most underrated or underappreciated movie of 2010?

Thu, Dec 30, 2010
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Mine must be Agora, which my fellow critics ignored and audiences never had a chance to find…

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trailer break: ‘Falling Skies’

Thu, Dec 30, 2010
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Like 80s V, only better than the terrible ABC redo that’s about to return.

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