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New, most probably spoilerish, information has been uncovered involving Iron Man 2.So what follows after the jump is most likely considered a spoiler. Even though the image appears in the official trailer, which is playing on the big screen in front of Sherlock Holmes, the details are very hard t...
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As today is a slow news day, I thought I’d pass along a couple small superhero film tidbits. Fangoria has learned that Joe Johnston is readying The First Avenger: Captain America for a June 2010 start. Sounds like we’ll begin hearing casting news shortly.Meanwhile, there might not hav...
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Space Tourists is one of 12 films selected from 782 international documentary submissions for this year’s World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. An age-old dream of man is to leave our planet as a normal person and travel into outer space. For 20 million do...
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By now, you may have already read my incoherent description of the new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Inception, and perhaps seen the French/International version of it. Those who watched Sherlock Holmes this past weekend may have caught the real deal.The official trailer has finally surfa...
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It’s been quite a while since Walter Hill directed a film that could be called a total success, but I never stop pulling for the guy who directed The Warriors, 48 Hrs. and Streets of Fire. (Even if he also directed Another 48 Hrs. — nasty stuff.) So I’ll take any shred of positi...
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I’m fairly sick of lists by this point every year, and this year, with all the roundups of the past decade, the listmania is way out of hand. But this is one I can get behind. I like it in part simply because it was penned by John Waters, the long-standing champion of bad taste. I like it m...
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Disney’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, based on the UbiSoft reinvention of Jordan Mechner’s classic video game, doesn’t hit until May 28 2010. But Disney is apparently not so confident that the video game basis will translate to a large audience, so the studio has been pu...
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The Warlords is a two-year old Chinese mini-epic starring Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro in a tale based on The Assassination of Ma, a story from China’s mid-1800s civil war period. The film cleaned up at the 2008 Hong Kong Film Awards and is finally hitting the states courtesy of M...
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Given Avatar’s strong showing at the box office for the past few weekends, and that James Cameron and Fox have invested considerable amounts of blood and money in the film, you can rest assured that we’re going to get a sequel (and most likely a third film to complete the trilogy). Th...
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Not too long ago, we ran a Bohemian Rhapsody parody starring The Muppets, and now we’ve come across another parody of the classic Queen song — this time based on the Battlestar Galactica ‘verse. It’s a pretty hilarious lyrical spin on the series, and fans will find a lot t...
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The above graph is from ChartsBin, showing the top 10 most pirated movies of 2009. The list, which was collected by Torrent Freak from several sources, is pretty odd. It’s not surprising that big Hollywood blockbusters like Star Trek and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen topped the list, ...
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Don’t have time to watch the new movie trailer for Iron Man 2? Let Human Giant comedian Paul Scheer explain what happens in the trailer in half the time. Video embedded after the jump.Iron Man 2 Movie TrailerMore Iron Man 2 Footage (War Machine!) and Two New ‘Clues’Entertainment...
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I think that we should first of all indulge in a little primer on Tesujin 28-go aka Gigantor, my favourite giant robot of all - because, yes, I do like some giant robots, honest.Created in the mid-50s as a Manga series, Tetsujin 28-go tells the story of a three-storey tall robot invented to help ...
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While Michael Jackson’s unexpected last concert documentary This Is It was helmed by dance choreographer turned High School Musical 3 director Kenny Ortega, the official music video for the King of Pop’s posthumous single attracted a bigger and more talented filmmaker — Academy ...
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The main wealth of Eric Brevig’s moviemaking experience has been as an FX guy, though he has now segued through second unit directing to overseeing his own movies. His first feature was the Journey to the Centre of the Earth remake-sequel with Brendan Fraser, which was an early example of l...
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Amazon is having a sale on select Blu-Ray movies, offering over 100 titles for up to 60% off retail price. Here are a few of the titles on sale:$59.99 Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection (The Motion Picture / The Wrath of Khan / The Search for Spock / The Voyage Home / The Final Frontie...
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TeeFury’s t-shirt of the day is a Star Wars design by Thomas G. Sullivan. The t-shirt is a parody of J. Howard Miller’s WWII-era call to action piece “We Can Do It!”, an iconic feminist image appeared on magazines, newspapers and posters, and helped increase women’s earnin...
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At the very least, each of Clint Mansell’s movie scores strengthens the film it accompanies and at the very best, his music works extraordinarily both in the picture and as standalone listening. With Lux Aeterna, his most astonishing cue from the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack, he managed t...
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A couple weeks ago we ran a listing of the best reviewed films of the decade as compiled by Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. We followed that up by the top 20 films of the decade, as voted on by the users of FlickChart.Today I decided to compile the top 25 films of the decade, as voted by the user...
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Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes edged out James Cameron’s Avatar to win Christmas Day at the box office, $24.9 million to $23.6 million. Avatar is currently tracking to smash $200 million in just 10 days of release (on Sunday) and should hit $250 million by Wednesday (in only 13 days of...
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I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we here at /Film have been covering James Cameron’s Avatar pretty extensively. An event movie this interesting only comes around once in awhile, so it’s been a blast to participate in the public discussion. You can read my review, Brendo...
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This week, /Film’s own David Chen had the opportunity to guest host the movie podcast Filmspotting. Filmspotting started way back in 2005 and is one of the oldest, most well-respected movie podcasts on the internet. They also achieved the dream of many podcasters: Getting picked up by a wel...
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The /Filmcast: After Dark is a recording of what happens right after The /Filmcast is over, when the kids have gone to bed and the guys feel free to speak whatever is on their minds. In other words, it’s the leftover and disorganized ramblings, mindfarts, and brain diarrhea from The /Filmcast, al...
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Video remix artist Pogo takes on Pixar’s Up. Upular was composed using chords, bass notes and vocal samples from the Pete Docter-directed computer animated film. Watch the video embedded after the jump.Thanks to Matt B for the heads up.AFI’s Top 10 Movies and TV Series of 2009Disney &...
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Below the break you can see four alternative covers for the first issue of Kevin Smith’s new Green Hornet comics. He has adapted his unproduced Green Hornet movie screenplay into a ten chapter miniseries, illustrated by Jonathan Lau. The series has reportedly been fully completed before eve...
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Director/screenwriter Diane Bell’s Obselidia is one of 16 films selected from 1,058 submissions for the Dramatic Competition for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Described as a “save-the-world love story”, the film tells the story of a lonely librarian believes love is obsolete ...
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column ...
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What’s Under Your Mask? is a series of prints created by German illustrator Adrian Pavic honoring the masked icons in Western society, ranging from Darth Vader, to Point Break, to Spider-Man. No word on if Pavic will be making his prints available for public purchase, but you can view some of the...
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The Tobolowsky Files is a new podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about life, love, and the entertainment industry, as told by legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky. In this episode, Stephen explains exactly how well LSD and Christmas mix.Yo...
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Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday I’ll be bringing you a round up of news, links and coverage specific to the motion picture comings and goings here in the UK. Sometimes we’ll be talking about films th...
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They say that all legendary figures are the creation of great tragedy and perseverance. But what about Santa Claus? Imagine, if you can, Santa Claus as a superhero, out for vengeance. Imagine, if you will, a movie trailer mash-up featuring The Santa Clause and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Imagine, n...