This morning, MSN put up what they’re calling an “exclusive video” for Baz Luhrmann’s Australia, though many sources are calling it a trailer. I suppose it’s a pointless semantic argument, but to me a trailer plays in a theater before a movie. Anything else is a commercial or a promotional video. Whatever this is, it’s [...]

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I guess you have to hand it to Spike Lee. He had a problem with the fact that Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers overlooked the role played by African-American soldiers in World War II and, after complaining about it, he put his money where his mouth with his own World War II film. The [...]

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