Posted on June 9th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
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We’re always on the lookout for good sci-fi and for interesting animation that doesn’t come from Disney or DreamWorks, so we were intrigued by the trailer for Shane Acker’s 9 that played before Coraline last February…that is until that irritating Coheed and Cambria song kicked in. We’re hoping the [...]
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Posted on June 9th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
Mickey Rourke as Whiplash in Iron Man 2
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That unpleasant sound you just heard was all of nerdkind collectively soiling their Spider-Man Underoos over the first image of Mickey Rourke in the upcoming Iron Man sequel.
Iron Man was great and all and we’re big Robert Downey Jr. fans here at LiC, but this whole [...]
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Posted on June 9th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
“You can be anything you want when you grow up, honey…
…as long as you marry a black man!”
Disney has long been criticized for its treatment of black people in movies. Song of the South first springs to mind with its happy singing slave stereotype Uncle Remus, but there are also the crows in Dumbo and [...]
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Posted on June 9th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
Das A-Team saugt in jeder möglicher Sprache
Now that Liam Neeson and Bradley Cooper are officially in talks to star in the A-Team adaptation being produced by Ridley and Tony Scott, the Internet is abuzz with A-Team excitement.
Originally I thought this was a stupid idea because the ’80s TV show was itself a stupid idea. I [...]
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Posted on June 9th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) brings Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White together for a little chat about the electric guitar.
Calling it “musically and visually sumptuous,” Variety’s John Anderson says the documentary “is a three-headed, amped-up, guitar-shredding slamdown powered by a pan-generational trio of rock gods…”
The film premiered at Toronto in 2008 and it’s [...]
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Posted on June 9th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
The Rumor: American Idol creep Simon Cowell is remaking Saturday Night Fever starring Zac Efron with music “reworked” by Timbaland.
Why it could be true: Why not? Liam Neeson might be in a goddamn A-Team movie for chrissakes. Anything is possible.
Why it’s probably not: The source is The Sun. One of their cover stories is about [...]
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