After catching 20 minutes of clips from David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at Telluride, SlashFilm’s Peter Sciretta seems hell-bent on taking the film down. He was disappointed with the compilation, which by his own later admission contained clips that were mostly one minute plus with one romantic scene going over two minutes.
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Rotten Tomatoes has a new foul mouthed red band trailer for Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno starring Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks. It didn’t turn me on. Judge for yourself.

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As I was preparing the Fall Forecast for December, I came across a computer-animated fantasy adventure called Delgo that I’d never heard of. For whatever reason, I left it off the list, but it turns out the December 12 release date was surprising news to people who have been following this project for a long [...]

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Jerry Reed died Monday of complications due to emphysema. He was a huge part of a certain period of my movie-going eduction: the 1970s drive-in years. Primarily I remember him from Gator, W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings, Hot Stuff and of course, his turn as trucker Cledus “Snowman” Snow in the immortal Smokey and the [...]

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UK tabloid based rumors swirled over the weekend that Russell Crowe would play Watson opposite Robert Downey Jr.’s Sherlock Holmes in the upcoming Guy Ritchie film based on the Arthur Conan Doyle characters. That’s all well and good, but it’s another tabloid lie. Ritchie himself tells Empire “I don’t have a Watson.”
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