Next weekend is memorial day weekend, and what better way to spend it than chilling with Wall-E and Eve? Or maybe Remy and Linguine are more your speed? Or Carl and Russell? Or Woody and Buzz? Or maybe all four? Pixar is trotting out their famous and Oscar winning films through AMC Cinemas for...
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CinemaCon, the yearly convention for film exhibitors and studios to get together and tease us with clips we can’t see and blindside us with awful news, was held this week in Las Vegas and, well, some of the news coming out of it was a bit distressing for fans of traditional film. Film is...
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Lots to talk about this week, but first, The Hunger Games, because no one else is really talking about it an it could use a bump. Here’s a few spoiler-filled thoughts. Skip to the underlined section if you’re that one dude who hasn’t seen it yet. A few weeks ago I called the book...
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So, it’s Friday afternoon and Disney’s spring tenpole picture, the Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, Wall-E) directed John CarterI, has been open for a few hours now. Going strictly by my Twitter feed (which is very film news and film nerd heavy), no one is talking about it. No one. In the last few days...
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Wikipedia (and others)’s battle against SOPA and PIPA obviously dominated the news this week, with the user-submitted encyclopedia going dark for 24 to the whiny consternation of high school and college students nationwide. I mean, holy shit. You shouldn’t be using Wikipedia for homework. Just as big a news story, I think, was the...
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The holiday news lull is officially over, and we’re back into the swing of things with a ton of news and links this week. The biggest film news of the week might be that The White House seems to be siding with the “tech companies” (aka everyone in the world who doesn’t draw an...
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I woke up with a pretty bad sore throat this morning, so just a quick bit before I go back to bed. I must ask: HOW THE HELL DID THIS TAKE A YEAR AND HALF TO BE FOUND? Grantland came up with a link to the full original Karate Kid, shot on video tape with its...
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Most of tributes that are pouring in for Steve Jobs are focusing on Apple, but I think Pixar is just as an important legacy for Jobs. Even though his involvement was more in the role of Godfather than creator, Pixar would have been little more than a footnote in the story of Lucasfilm —...
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