I woke up this morning all excited that tonight was the night that Lindsay Lohan made her big comeback in Liz and Dick, but it turns out I’m a week early. It’s not the movie itself I’m excited about, of course. It’s that once the thing has aired all of the awful ads will...
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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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Nothing happened this week. Seriously. There were some awful trailers for crap like What to Expect when You’re Expecting, and New Years Eve got sent through the critical buzzsaw as pretty much every who wasn’t involved in making it thought it would. Okay, the two things that happened this week were the Scott Rudin/David...
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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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Tons of interesting new trailers debuted in the last couple of days. Here they are in one convenient place! Steven Spielberg directs War Horse, based on the Tony-winning play. Coming this Christmas. Brad Bird (The Iron Giant) directs Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. Stars Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg and Jeremy Renner. Story by Cruise and...
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