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what the world needs now? more gay stereotypes (I’m So Excited trailer)

Mon, Apr 22, 2013
8 comments

Remind me again why Pedro Almodóvar is some kind of cinematic genius…

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spoiling movies in a responsible way will be a new thing here…

Sat, Apr 20, 2013
8 comments

…when I get up and running on WordPress (which will be very soon), when I can protect such posts from accidental viewing. In the meantime, please enjoy this post from Film School Rejects about Oblivion…

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Michael Shannon is all mobbed up (The Iceman trailer)

Fri, Apr 19, 2013
2 comments

At some point, someone is going to tell the entire history of the New York metropolitan area in the 20th century entirely through the eyes of the mafia.

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Star Wars forever: geek heaven? or geek hell?

Thu, Apr 18, 2013
14 comments

A Star Wars movie every summer. I feel about ten years old again.

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London in the 23rd century (via Star Trek Into Darkness)

Thu, Apr 18, 2013
9 comments

I’m a little bit obsessed with the futuristic London skyline the trailers for Star Trek Into Darkness have been teasing us with…

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best exotic Italian holiday wedding (Love Is All You Need trailer)

Thu, Apr 18, 2013
4 comments

It’s nice that there are suddenly lots of films aimed primarily at people who aren’t teenagers.

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apparently “the Nancy Meyers movie” is now a genre (The Big Wedding trailer)

Wed, Apr 17, 2013
2 comments

It seems the problems of rich white folk do amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world…

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the odds are in our favor (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire trailer)

Tue, Apr 16, 2013
9 comments

I hope the film is as powerful as the trailer is making it look.

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the movie I’m most psyched for this summer (Before Midnight trailer)

Mon, Apr 15, 2013
1 comment

I hope Richard Linklater revists Jesse and Celine every nine years…

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girl-powered misogyny is not cute (Kick-Ass 2 redband and greenband trailers)

Fri, Apr 12, 2013
14 comments

Misogyny is no more palatable when it’s coming out of the mouth of a teenaged girl… and it’s certainly not feminist…

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