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Here’s a 5-minute peek at the upcoming sci-fi remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still with Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly. I’m not feeling it. How about you?

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What better Friday Filler than His Girl Friday?

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He hardly says a thing during the whole scene, but he owns it.

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As the economy circles the toilet bowl threatening to take those of us who pay our bills on time down with it, the people who played the markets like Las Vegas slot machines are going to get away with killing the golden goose. It turns out the only thing trickling down all these years is sewage. 
Are [...]

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One of the movies in tomorrow’s Weekend Forecast put me in the mind of one of the best movies of the 1980s: Bill Forsyth’s Local Hero. It’s one of those rare magical movies that brings me joy and makes me happy to be alive.

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The New York Yankees are playing their last game at the old Yankee Stadium today. I’m not a fan of the team (though having them around as the bad guy makes baseball a lot more fun), but I’m a fan of history and it saddens me a little to see them moving a few doors [...]

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I spent the week with the prospect of jury duty looming over me, but I was never called.
Nevertheless, it inspired this week’s Friday Filler: Sidney Lumet’s 12 Angry Men.

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In honor of everyone who is still working for the man, enjoy the first 4 minutes and 38 seconds of Sergei Eisenstein’s Strike. Sure, laugh all you want at the blatant Socialist propagandizing in this seminal silent film from 1925, but enjoy the filmmaking.

The additional 22 parts are available here.
 Happy Labor Day.

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What am I not getting about this movie?
 
Source: Rope of Silicon
 

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Twitch has three clips from Charlie Kaufman’s much anticipated Synecdoche, New York starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. They’ve been kicking around France since Cannes, but this is the first I’ve heard of them. Enjoy, but don’t tell me what you saw.
Via: CHUD

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IGN Movies has this featurette for Henry (The Nightmare Before Christmas) Selick’s 3-D stop-motion animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Hugo Award winning novella Coraline.
It’s a typical featurette where the artists pat each other on the back, but it gives a glimpse at how the movie is going to look.

Coraline tells the story of a young [...]

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According to Cinematical, these don’t offer much more than the teaser or red-band trailers for Burn After Reading, but we’re spiritually obligated to run all things Coen.
As always, I’m not watching, but don’t let that stop you.
Here’s George:

Brad after the jump:

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In honor of the 2008 Olympics, I present World Championship gold medal gymnast Kurt Thomas.
The US boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics robbed Kurt of his chance for Olympic gold but nothing could keep him for combining the skill of gymnastics with the kill of karate. Gymkata!!

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