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Toy-based movies are officially overboard with Hasbro Factory

Posted 16 years ago

If you thought all the upcoming movies based on toys and games were getting out of control with MONOPOLY, BATTLESHIP, STRETCH ARMSTRONG and the whole Target kids department, it looks like things are going to explode on screen like Christmas...

Morning Glory trailer features Rachel McAdams’ butt and Harrison Ford being… funny?

Posted 16 years ago

Leave it to JJ Abrams to find a good use for Harrison Ford’s increasing belligerence. The Bad Robot-produced comedy MORNING GLORY comes from NOTTING HILL director Roger Michell, and has rounded up a pretty great cast: Ford, Rachel McAdams, Diane...

The Last Exorcism trailer has demons and freaky neck stuff

Posted 16 years ago

The Eli Roth-produced THE LAST EXORCISM is obviously aiming for some CLOVERFIELD / BLAIR WITCH / PARANORMAL ACTIVITY success, given the fake-documentary style and cast of relative unknowns. Will it be chilling and original enough to hit the sweet spot...

Woody gets with the times in new Toy Story 3 clips

Posted 16 years ago

It didn’t seem like audiences stampeded to theaters for the return of SHREK (in 3D). Will they feel differently about Buzz Lightyear, Woody and the rest of Pixar’s playthings in TOY STORY 3? (Hope so, since I put the movie...

Iron Man’s dad Howard Stark will be in Captain America

Posted 16 years ago

In IRON MAN 2, Tony Stark’s father Howard makes a brief but pivotal appearance that helps the hero take his tech to the next level. And that won’t be the only time the elder Stark shows up in the Marvel...

Mass Effect videogame will become an epic sci-fi movie

Posted 16 years ago

I still haven’t had a chance to play the MASS EFFECT games (hell, it took me nearly a year just to get through FALLOUT 3), but it looks like I might get to see the characters on the big screen...

Paul Giamatti tries romance and wigs in the trailer for Barney’s Version

Posted 16 years ago

I can’t decide what’s more unsettling: seeing Paul Giamatti with a full head of hair (not the “John Adams” kind), or watching him land several different reasonably attractive women. Giamatti is the Barney of the title in BARNEY’S VERSION, an...

New Predators trailer gives us a better look at the prey

Posted 16 years ago

Robert Rodriguez and Nimrod Antal’s surprisingly non-3D sequel PREDATORS is slowly creeping up on us like a camouflaged extraterrestrial, and a new trailer is here to prove it. The movie stars Adrien Brody as Royce, “a mercenary who reluctantly leads...

Happy 30th Anniversary to The Empire Strikes Back!

Posted 16 years ago

Thirty years ago today, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK was unleashed on screens. Even though I was still in grade school, I knew I was witnessing something truly special as I sat transfixed in the theater at the matinee show, absorbing...

Cool Videos: “Get Outta There” movie scenes

Posted 16 years ago

You almost don’t realize just how often Hollywood movies use the same clichés over and over and over until someone compiles them together in a single short clip. For example, there was “No Signal”, a collection of cheap mirror scares,...

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