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The 20 pictures in contention for five nominee slots — up from three in recent years — for the upcoming Academy Awards in the Best Animated Feature Film category have been announced. They are: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel Astro Boy Battle for Terra Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Coraline Disney’s A Christmas … more…
Is it me, or is there something a little hinky in the difference between these two DVD covers for the same movie? On the left is the Region 2 DVD cover art for Make the Yuletide Gay. On the right is the Region 1 DVD cover art for the same film. I didn’t find anything … more…
Roland Emmerich destroys the whole planet in 2012 — is there anywhere left to go after this? What’s left to be destroyed onscreen? These movies are always about one-upping the last one, but there doesn’t seem to be any one-upping left? I’m guessing that until there are cities with distinctive skylines and notable landmarks on … more…
Charla Nash, the woman who earlier this year was mauled by a chimp and lost most of her face in the attack appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show yesterday to talk with Oprah — as much as her devastated face will allow her to talk — and to reveal the extent of her injuries. Perhaps … more…
And there I’ve gone and spoiled The Fourth Kind again, at least according to Cole Abaius at Film School Rejects. Yesterday, he posted a long complaint about how elitist film critics who don’t really love film but love feeling all insider-y have ruined this movie by highlighting — sometimes in the headlines of our reviews, … more…
Inspired by a post at Defamer: Who will be back next season on Mad Men? Who should be back? A somewhat spoiler-iffic wrapup on Sunday night’s season finale from Defamer: The Mad Men season finale left a real easy way to get rid of a whole bunch of cast members. So, who is going to … more…
Boing Boing broke down the details last week: The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked. It’s bad. It says: • That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be … more…
Sure, there are a big handful of films that take place in part around Thanksgiving, but I can think of only three (and one of them is a stretch) that are really about the holiday: Home for the Holidays and Pieces of April, both of which revolve around the family dinner, and Planes, Trains and … more…
They’re not quite analogous, but a confluence of anniversaries this week resulted in dueling Google doodles on either side of the Atlantic, for the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street: and the 20th anniversary of Wallace and Gromit: Today, both Google.com and Google.co.uk share this doodle: What’s your favorite childhood memory of Sesame Street (or Wallace … more…
Scott Brown at Wired magazine recently came to the defense of Doctor Who, explaining why it’s so essential these days, and why it stands out: There’s a fix I just don’t get from mainstream American science fiction, perhaps because of its grinding obsession with the imperialistic (and its depressive sibling, the dystopic), not to mention … more…
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