Captain America: The First Avenger (second trailer)
Yea! A glimpse of Richard Armitage!
Nazis
blame Twitter for Wil Wheaton’s nonblogging; ‘Shit My Dad Says’ shitcanned; Catherine Tate may take over ‘The Office’; more: leftover links
Plus: Cannes shocked by We Need to Talk About Kevin and Lars von Trier; family values robot from the future Arnold Schwarzenegger turns out to be a hypocrite…
trailer break: ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’
Oh my god, what did they do to Chris Evans to make him look so scrawny? Please tell me that’s CGI… (It’s okay: I know it’s CGI.)
why celebs love Scientology; Netflix in deal for original programming; the real problem of ‘Mars Needs Moms’; more: leftover links
Plus: why Republicans want to destroy NPR; Hereafter (with its tsunami scene) pulled from Japanese theaters; promo fail for Limitless viral video; more…
the worst movies of 2010
I’ve finally gotten through the last few films I needed to see for the year, and am now able to definitively declare that of the 208 new theatrical releases I saw during the award year (which doesn’t really end till the Oscars are handed out next month), these 10 are the very worst of the lot…
The Nutcracker in 3D (review)
You already know the score — duh da-duh-da-duh! duh da-duh-da-duh! — but in case you’ve forgotten, The Nutcracker in 3D will attempt to mainline it into your brain, fuel-injecting sugar-plum fairy juice into your festivus lobe at the drop of, um, a sugar plum. If you think that’s a horrendously mixed metaphor, it’s got nothing on this polar-express train wreck…
watch it: Disney anti-Nazi propaganda “Education For Death”
From Walt Disney. Because you can trust The Mouse to look at current events and politics with an unvarnished, objective eye. Those darn Nazis, ruining all of Disney’s cartoons!
WWII in HD (review)
The name is a little misleading. These 10 45-minute episodes aren’t just in HD: they’re in color. Hardly anyone even knew most of this footage existed, and it is amazing to see.
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (review)
I debated with myself for quite a while: Should I endure *The Human Centipede (First Sequence)*? I knew I wouldn’t be able to unwatch it afterward…
MaryAnn can’t believe…
…that Steve Martin has already Godwin’d the Oscars with his Meryl Streep-loves-Nazis joke. Open thread for the first hour or so of the Oscars…
