Friday, August 31, 2007
‘Heroes’ Star Recognizes Privileges of BitTorrent
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Actors Who Spent Their Whole Careers Playing The Same Role
Character: John McClane, and Variations Thereof
Examples: The Fifth Element, The Last Boy Scout, Striking Distance, Hudson Hawk, Die Hard, Tears of the Sun
Bruce Willis is well general with a thing: portrait badass easily-relatable. Far it is of me to judge the type - it is rather rotten good with its work, after all - but of the more advantageous roles of Willis' imply usually guns, explosions, and a-coverings.
Many versions of Willis of John McClane have light differences, naturally: in the fifth element, McClane is fair and slightly romantic; in the last scout of boy, McClane is drunk more and wash-towards the top that usual; in the falcon of Hudson, McClane is cartoony; in 16 blocks, McClane is old and grumpy.
Granted, Willis tried to make an incursion into the kingdom of the right drama (history of us, for example), but of the career of Bruce always basically goes down to his incredible capacity to give to a kick the ass and to take names. Even when playing a traveller limit-psychotic of time in twelve monkeys, it always seems like an abnormally strong and trustful name-taker and/or an ass-pulseur.
Ben Affleck
Character: Almost Charming, Immensely Douchebaggy Sonofabitch
Examples: Good Will Hunting, Gigli, Reindeer Games, Smokin’ Aces
To slacken, to rest behind, and I will describe one of the most satisfactory moments in the recent history of cinema.
Have of Smokin'. Approximately forty minutes Po Ben Affleck and his buddies of hunter of generosity stop by the side of the road and discuss their plan for the buddy of tightening “have” Israel. Suddenly, a strong and black car which resembles him can spout out came from the well of the hell itself comes shouting near, heavy metal music bursting extremely. Affleck and his are used as team-member the glance above in curiosity as it dispatches in the distance. They speak for a little more about the plan, until the opposite of devil-car, stop, and proceed to the jet Affleck and its car with the fire of machine-gun.
It is right - the best moment have in Smokin les' made take part Ben Affleck obtaining his shit destroyed by three néo-Nazis. And it is even when it plays one of its less irritating natures.
Starting with Mallrats and the progress from there, Ben Affleck summarizes the smarmy, almost-but-not-all with fact-attractive-enough-with-guarantee-sound-be-a-enormous-moron that we all met at a certain point in our lives. In addition to the fact that it is too good remote to play us of the character are supposed to scorn (Shannon de Mallrats could be the best example of this), all its characters have a smugness about them that marks it rotten impossible near with like. It transformed Murdock grimaçant chechmate into douchebag, saké for qualité'. It takes a hell of to encourage the breakage-neck much to seem fop, but Affleck was more than until charging.
Harrison Ford
Character: Angry-Looking, Can-Do Badass
Examples: Firewall, Frantic, Witness, Air Force One
I permit gladly that Ford had somewhat more distance than actors early on in its career (instead of annoy to to look ability, was he bath-ate cocky Schauen an ability bath-ate), but the inevitable grumpiness, which comes approximately resulting from old age and a career into showbusiness more or less has, reduces each individual letter Ford for the eighties to one pissed away described, thin veiled version of Harrison Ford.
The fact even ignore that US probably never furious-look a president as as Ford in the Air Force would select, views of the Gecken even pissed, if it assumed, in order to be lucky. In a film, how it is ready, everyone in 10 may kill party wall, Ford of views mile radius - and that is, before its family is even kidnapped. Late Ford letters really do not have much an elbow: it begins annoyed, kills annoys some people and stores the people, which it loves, but still really looks goddamn, which is provoked over it. For approximately three-quarter the duration of the Zeuges I to be really stored was not safe, whether he was in the process, the kid before the pressure he under the rubber tires of a überschreitenen truck or fairly along for one while lines him up.
, Ford lets new attitude toward to its roles honestly be the following Indiana Jones fun of the film terriblly to the clock: Ford guidance its older, more bezaubernder or becomes he keeps his new, will-steps blicken-an-ihn condition or it is a mixture of the two?
Sean Connery
Character: Scottish
Examples: Name of the Rose, First Knight, The Hunt for Red October, Highlander
With in the past voted the man with the worst false accent in the showbusiness, there is something slightly odd about this fact that at any point as a Sean the career that of Connery A even tried to adopt the indigenous accent of a character it played. It does not import if you are a Spaniard, a Russian, or a monk: if Sean Connery plays you, you will have a Scottish accent.
Connery more or less managed to leave with him considering its roles were differently filled of badassery total (“it tellsh I that weak the goosh-shtepping as yourselves should test books of reading instead of baerning them”), but he must still be known as - for a so large actor, he is lazy rather rotten when he comes to his accents.
Ricky Gervais
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Thursday, August 30, 2007
65 Must See Movies at the Toronto Film Festival 2007: Special Presentations
“4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” Cristian Mungiu, Romania
A drama set in Bucharest during the “golden” years of Communism, about the horrors of the Securitate, and the brutality and absurdness of its methods used. 8.4 Rating on IMDb.
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“The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” Andrew Dominik, U.S.
Robert Ford joins Jesse James’s gang, only to become resentful of the legendary outlaw and hatch a plan to kill the fastest gun in the West. Starring Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Mary-Louise Parker, Zooey Deschanel, Sam Rockwell, Sam Shepard. Critics that have seen it say it’s slow and boring, but the trailer looks ever so promising.
Release: September 21.
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“Atonement,” Joe Wright, Britain (Pride & Prejudice)
A British romance that spans several decades. Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister’s lover of a crime he did not commit. Starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. EuropeanFilms says “Atonement is a fully formed pleasure of a film that only really stumbles in its editing and its closing moments.”
Release: December 7th (limited).
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“Battle in Seattle,” Stuart Townsend, U.S.
Based on a True Story. Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Riots and chaos ensue as demonstrators successfully stop the WTO meetings. Starring Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson, Ray Liotta, Michelle Rodriguez, Joshua Jackson and Channing Tatum.
Release: December 2007.
“Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead,” Sidney Lumet (12 Angry Men / Dog Day Afternoon / Network), U.S.
Needing extra cash, two brothers conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney and Marisa Tomei.
Release: September 26th.
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“Bill,” Melisa Wallack, Bernie Goldmann,U.S.
A guy fed up with his job and married to a cheating wife reluctantly mentors a rebellious teen. Starring Jessica Alba, Timoth Olyphant, Aaron Eckhart, Elizabeth Banks.
“The Brave One,” Neil Jordan (The Crying Game / The End of the Affair / Interview with the Vampire), U.S./Australia
A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge. It looks interesting, and it helps that Jordan won an Academy Award for The Crying Game in 1992. The film also has a great line-up of actors: In addition to Jodie Foster, it also features Naveen Andrews (Lost), Terrence Howard (Crash), and Mary Steenburgen (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape).
Release Date: September 14th.
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“Captain Mike Across America,” Michael Moore (Sicko, Bowling for Columbine), U.S.
A look back to the 2004 election, when the margin of polling difference between candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry could have tipped either way. The film captures Moore’s activities as he set out on a campaign trip almost as rigorous and far-reaching as the candidates’ own, visiting 62 cities in 45 days, and holding large rallies on college campuses. Has a Michael Moore film ever been bad? Okay, aside from Canadian Bacon and The Big One…
“Chacun Son Cinema,” David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, David Lynch, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Roman Polanski, Gus Van Sant, Lars von Trier, Wong Kar Wai, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Aki Kaurissmaki, France
A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about Cinema. Premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2007. With a list of directors like this, how could you go wrong?
“Death Defying Acts,” Gillian Armstrong (Little Women), Britain/Australia
During Harry Houdini’s tour of Britain in 1926, the master escapologist enters into a passionate affair with a Scottish psychic. The psychic and her daughter attempt to con Houdini during a highly publicized séance to contact his mother whose death has haunted him for many years. However all does not go to plan… Starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Guy Pearce.
Release: Late 2007
“The Girl in the Park,” David Auburn, U.S.
Enduringly traumatized by the disappearance of her 3-year-old daughter 15 years ago, Julia Sandburg has cut herself off from anyone once near and dear to her, including her husband Doug and her son Chris, who tried for years to penetrate her wall of isolation and despair, without success. But when Julia meets Louise, a troubled young woman with a checkered past, all Julia’s old psychic wounds painfully resurface, as does her illogical and increasingly irrational hope that Louise may be the daughter she lost so long ago. Starring Sigourney Weaver, Kate Bosworth, Keri Ruseell, Alessandro Nivola and Elias Koteas. Possibly a bad sign: Auburn wrote The Lake House.
“I’m Not There,” Todd Haynes,U.S.
Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where seven characters embody a different aspect of the musician’s life and work. Starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, David Cross and more.
Release: November 21.
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“In Bloom,” Vadim Perelman (House of Sand and Fog), U.S.
A woman’s survivor’s guilt from a Columbine-like event twenty years ago causes her present-day idyllic life to fall apart. Starring Uma Thurman, Evan Rachel Wood.
Release: December 21.
“In the Valley of Elah,” Paul Haggis (Crash), U.S.
When model soldier Mike Deerfield (Jonathan Tucker) mysteriously goes AWOL, shortly after returning to the U.S. from the front lines in Iraq, his career officer father Hank (Tommy Lee Jones), enlists the aid of police detective Emily Sanders (Charlize Theron) in the search for his son. His wife Joan (Susan Sarandon) also joins them to uncover the truth of his disappearance. Inspired by Mark Boal’s Playboy Magazine article. I’ve seen this already, and it’s incredible.
Release: September 21.
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“Into the Wild,” Sean Penn (The Pledge, The Crossing Guard), U.S.
Based on a true story and the bestselling book by Jon Krakauer. After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless (Hirsch) abandons his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life. Starring Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn, Kristen Stewart, Jena Malone, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt and Catherine Keener.
Release: September 21.
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“Juno,” Jason Reitman (Thank You For Smoking), U.S.
Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual and bizarre decision regarding her unborn child. Starring Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Olivia Thrilby, JK Simmons. Reitman is one my favortie emerging directors, and this cast is stacked.
Release: December 14th.
“Lars and The Real Girl,” Craig Gillespie, U.S.
A delusional young guy strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet. Starring Ryan Gossling and Patricia Clarkson. Were you a fan of the HBO series Six Feet Under? I was one of those people who discovered the movie on DVD, and watched almost every single episode in the span of a few weeks. I have yet to see another show with the same sensibilities. Six Feet Under screenwriter Nancy Oliver’s new movie Lars and the Real Girl seems to have some of the same dark weird dramatic comedy.
Release: October 19th.
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“Lust, Caution,” Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon / Brokeback Mountain / Sense and Sensibility), U.S.
An espionage thriller set in WWII-era Shanghai, in which a young woman, Wang Jiazhi (Tang Wei), gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee (Tony Leung). Rated NC-17.
Release: September 28th (limited)
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“Man From Plains,” Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs / Philadelphia), U.S.
Last year, former President Jimmy Carter dove headfirst into the most controversial topic in international politics, publishing the book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. Following the path of Carter’s recent book tour, Academy Award winner Jonathan Demme reveals a complex individual who, with the gusto and determination of a youngster, criss-crosses the county to get his message of peace across, even as that message creates a media onslaught in which his credibility and judgement are called into question.
“Margot at the Wedding,” Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale), U.S.
Margot and her son Claude decide to visit Margot’s sister, Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. Starring Nicole Kidman, Jack Black, John Tuturro, Jennifer Jason Lee.
Release: November 16th.
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“No Country for Old Men,” Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (Fargo / The Big Lebowski / O Brother, Where Art Thou?), U.S.
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande. 9.0 Rating on IMDb. Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson.
Release: October 5th.
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“Nothing Is Private,” Alan Ball (writer: American Beauty), U.S.
A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist and her strict father during the Gulf War. Based on Alicia Erian’s novel “Towelhead”. Stars Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette, Maria Bello.
Release: January 2008?
“Rails & Ties,” Alison Eastwood (daughter of Clint Eastwood), U.S.
Unable to face the possibility of losing his wife to illness, Tom Stark buries himself in his job as a train conductor. But when Tom’s train hits a car on the tracks, a young woman is killed and her son, Davey, is left to cope with the loss of his mother. Starring Marcia Gay Harden, Miles Heizer, Kevin Bacon.
Release: October 26th (limited)
“Redacted,” Brian De Palma (Scarface), U.S.
A montage of stories about U.S. soldiers fighting in the Iraq conflict, focusing on the modern forms of media covering the war.
Release: December 14th.
“The Savages,” Tamara Jenkins, U.S
A sister (Laura Linney) and brother (Philip Seymour Hoffman) face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father. Heard a lot of good buzz about this flick at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
Release: December 26th.
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“The Take,” Brad Furman, U.S.
After he’s shot during a heist in East L.A., an armored-truck driver (Leguizamo) wrestles with rehabilitation and tracking down the man (Gibson) who committed the crime. Starring Taylor Gray, John Leguizamo, Tyrese Gibson and Rosie Perez.
“Then She Found Me,” Helen Hunt (star of As Good as It Gets / Twister / What Women Want), U.S.
A New York schoolteacher (Hellen Hunt) hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her real one, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with the father (Colin Firth) of one of her students. Film also stars Bette Midler, Mathew Broderick.
“The Visitor,” Thomas McCarthy (The Station Agent), U.S.
A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
65 Must See Movies at the Toronto Film Festival 2007: Gala Presentations
“Across the Universe,” Julie Taymor (Frida / Titus), U.S.
A musical told through the music of the Beatles. A dock worker Jude (Jim Sturgess) travels to America in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood). When her brother Max (Joe Anderson) is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism.
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Release: September 21st.
“Cassandra’s Dream,” Woody Allen (Annie Hall / Manhattan / Match Point), Britain
The story of two Cockney brothers in south London and their relationship with a young woman who lands in London on her search for fortune. She crosses the two men by accident on her path and when one them falls in love with her, she becomes aware of her power to attract the opposite sex and uses this to the point of leading the two brothers, who are in financial difficulty, into crime, and creating a dangerous rivalry between the two men. Stars Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor.
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Release: November 30th.
“Cleaner,” Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2 / Cliffhanger), U.S.
A former cop (Samuel L. Jackson) who now earns a wage as a crime scene cleaner unknowingly participates in a cover-up at his latest job. Also starring Eva Mendes, Maggie Lawson, Ed Harris. However, Renny Harlin has made a few clunkers as of recent years including the Sylvester Stallone race-car driving film Driven (4.2 on imdb), Exorcist: The Beginning (5.1 on imdb) and one of the worest movies of 2006, The Covenant (4.7 on imdb).
“Closing the Ring,” Richard Attenborough (star of Jurassic Park), Britain/Canada
A young man searches for the proper owner of a ring that belonged to a United States World War II bomber pilot who crashed in Ireland 50 years ago. 9.2 Rating on IMDb. Stars Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, and Mischa Barton.
“Michael Clayton,” Tony Gilroy (writer of The Bourne movies, The Devil’s Advocate), U.S.
Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is an in-house “fixer” at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen’s dirtiest work at the behest of the firm’s co-founder Marty Bach (Sydney Pollack). Though burned out and hardly content with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder (Tilda Swinton) rests on the multi-million dollar settlement of a class action suit that Clayton’s firm is leading to a seemingly successful conclusion. But when Kenner Bach’s brilliant and guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson) sabotages the U/North case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career and his life. I just saw this film and it’s fantastic.
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Release: October 5th.
“Rendition,” Gavin Hood (Tsotsi / Wolverine X-Men Spin-Off), U.S.
A CIA analyst questions his assignment after witnessing an unorthodox interrogation at a secret detention facility outside the US. Starring Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep, Alan Arkin, Peter Sarsgaard, JK Simmons. I’m mostly interested in this film due to the filmmaker. The first review of the movie at cincity was a slightly negative: “a textbook Message Picture. And it’s a very well-crafted one at that. It’s well acted, competently written, and very capably directed. But like all Message Pictures, it’s totally airtight and DOA as a piece of living, breathing art. The Good Intentions and Important Message are hammered at you with typical Oscar-baiting Hollywood subtlety.“
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Release: October 12th.
“Reservation Road,” Terry George (Hotel Rwanda), U.S.
Based on a novel. A drama that revolves around two fathers whose families and lives tragically converge with the death of a child. In the aftermath, Ethan (Joaquin Phoenix) and Dwight (Mark Ruffalo) each react in unexpected ways as their families struggle to cope and an emotional reckoning looms. Also stars: Jennifer Connelly and Mira Sorvino.
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Release: October 19th.
“Sleuth,” Kenneth Branagh, U.S.
Based on a stageplay. On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer (Michael Caine) matches wits with the struggling actor (Jude Law) who has stolen his wife’s heart.
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Release: October 12th.
“Terra,” Aristomenis Tsirbas, U.S.
Based on an Award Winning 2003 animated short film by the digital artist of Hellboy and Dogma, Terra follows a peaceful alien planet faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on Terra. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, will do everything she can to stop it. Voices by Evan Rachel Wood, Brian Cox, Chris Evans, Justin Long, Luke Wilson, Amanda Peet, Danny Trejo, Ron Pearlman, Dennis Quaid, James Garner, Danny Glover and more.
“The Walker,” Paul Schrader (American Gigolo), U.S./Britain
An escort (Woody Harrelson) who caters to Washington D.C.’s society ladies becomes involved in a murder case. Also starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall, Willem Dafoe. People are praising Harrelson’s performance in this one.
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Release: December 7th.
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Remake of Rob Zombie's Halloween Leaked to Bit Torrent
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Tera-Discs To Blow Away HD-DVD and Blu-Ray?
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The Best is Yet to Come: Fall / Movie Guide of Winter 2007
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Fight Club producer discusses making his new movie using Apple's Final Cut
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Monday, August 27, 2007
"Superbad" Rules Box Office For 2nd Week
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The Wachowski's Speed Racer Using Revolutionary Full Focus Cameras
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Top Ten Military Movies of All Time
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10 Best Cinematic Showdowns of All-Time
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Friday, August 24, 2007
McFarlane, Olson to Reinvent Oz
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Nature or Nurture: What Will Be Next For Star Trek?
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How "Superbad" Became a Popular
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
The List of Blockbusters This Summer, Which Lost The Most Money
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11 Injured At Tom Cruise Film Shoot
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Paramount confirms HD DVD, Blu-ray in knockdown
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Extended Cut of "Transformers" Hits IMAX Next Month
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Blockbuster Screwed Me Over and Needs to Feel My Pain
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Stephen King confirms 'The Dark Tower' Movie
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Monday, August 20, 2007
Great New Hi-Res Images from The Dark Knight!
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8 Most Successful Film Concessions of All Time
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The 10 most impressive films Hollywood ever killed
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Amazing Godfather Portrait Made from Entire Movie Script (Pic)
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Top Ten Most Obnoxiously Overquoted Movies
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The Cinema versus The Simpsons. Want to know who won?
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The Top Ten Lies Blockbuster Video Tells Their Customers
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George Lucas wearing a 'Han Shot First' t-shirt!
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11 secret things about "Star Wars"
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Harry Potter Book Won't be a Bestseller
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SiCKO Smear Campaign led by Bush appointee and former secretary of HHS
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The Top 10 Greatest Simpsons Endings of All Time
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Iron Man: New Photo. Gauntlet
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Thursday, August 9, 2007
FUTURAMA returns November 27th
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An Open Letter to Michael Moore: Make a Movie about the American Media
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6 Movie Formulas That Must Be Stopped
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Pirated Movies at Circuit City (The Source)
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Gotcha! MPAA Tries to Trick Users into Downloading Movies Illegally!
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13 Places To Watch TV Online for Free
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Real Men Love the Fifth Element
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"The Simpsons Movie" Great pics
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Love it or hate it movies
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