101 Classic Jokes About Fortune Telling and Cocaine
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In Hollywood, a magic 8-ball used to just be a vial of cocaine that allowed producers to think they're flying. But now it's also going to be a movie about an oversize billiard ball with a blue liquid-immersed 20-sided die...
Hooray for (the) Hollywood (Sign)
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Thank goodness Hugh Hefner came in at the last minute to save the Hollywood Sign. At least for the sake of the tourism industry, which would have been left with an enormous supply of worthless redundantly captioned postcards and snow...
Greed, for Lack of a Better Word, Is Monopolymovie
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There's been a lot of talk today about Stephen Hawking's alien theory, shared in last night's Discovery Channel special Into the Universe, and I find it a good place to start a discussion on greed and irony. See, Hawking, who...
The Art Student’s War by Brad Leithauser
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I picked up The Art Student's War expecting a glimpse into an artist's mind and a gloss of the shifts in the art world during the World War II era. Not what this book is about. Brief summary: a loss...
Where's the Annual Love for Ferngully, Bio-Dome and Medicine Man?
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Is it Earth Day? You wouldn't know it from the lack of relevant content on the movie blogs today. Aside from reviews of Oceans and promotions of Avatar on DVD, I've seen only a few acknowledgments and celebrations of Mother...
Do Movie Geeks Really Hate Gwyneth Paltrow?
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I don't know if she deserved an Oscar (I'd have given it to Fernanda Montenegro or Emily Watson that year), but Gwyneth Paltrow is not a bad actress. Nor is she an ugly one. And though she doesn't bring a...
Volcano 2: The Inconvenience
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Isn't it great when a natural disaster occurs and nobody dies, so we can make jokes and also whine about it without seeming insensitive? That's the case with this Ejyafjallajökull ash cloud that's swallowing up airspace and film premiere plans...
Roger Ebert or Harry Knowles: Choose Your Side
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I find it interesting that Roger Ebert can write retrospective praise for films like Birth of a Nation and Triumph of the Will, yet give Kick-Ass a single star pan mostly, it seems, because he finds the contents of the...
Putting Donkey in a Donkey Show: One Shrek of a PR Stunt!
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Is that my worst amateur Photoshop ever, or what? Hah! I tricked you all, as that is not my own illustrative work but the questionable talent of someone hired by VMan magazine to do a strange photo spread featuring characters...
Another Step Closer to a Calvin and Hobbes Movie
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The two biggest trends in Hollywood right now are 3D and babies (and 3D babies, probably), but gaining on their shit-covered heels is the concept of imaginary friends. Between the Drop Dead Fred remake and Mel Gibson's beaver puppet movie...
Caught in the Web: the Sticky Situation of Movie Blogs
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Over the weekend, while you weren't wearing any pants, "news" hit the blogosphere that Logan Lerman is a primary candidate for the lead role in Sony's Spider-Man reboot. Last night, the "rumor" was "debunked" and most sites have since "updated"...
Game Over: No More Need for an ID4 Sequel
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There is a short film making the blogosphere (and Twittersphere) rounds today called Pixels. It was made by Patrick Jean, and I have to say that in terms of appropriating commercial iconography for an animated work, this kicks the shit...
Eh, I'm Still Waiting for the Holomax Shark Movie
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I know some of you are going to be very excited for something called Shark Night 3D. But I think it sounds kind of done before. The movie will be directed by David R. Ellis, who gave us the failed...
The Runaways Movie You Want Gets a Director You Don't Want
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Apparently rave reviews from Sundance and the appeal of two Twilight darlings (not to mention Dakota Fanning cleavage) isn't enough to get people interested in the rockin' girl group biopic The Runaways. Over at Cinematical, Will Goss has a look...
Tipping My Hat to the New Constitution
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I'll be upfront and honest: I don't really know what the title of today's Trends is supposed to mean, but "Tipping My Hat to the Internet Hoax Recaps" just wasn't an obvious enough reference to that appropriate Who song (what's...
