I’ll admit that, despite my better judgment, I responded enthusiastically to the original trailer for Roland Emmerich’s latest End of the Worlder 2012. It’s also true that this 5-minute clip which played all over TV earlier this evening has more “wow” moments than the entirety of Avatar Day, but I’m not going to get ahead [...]

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The disasterrific new trailer for Roland Emmerich’s 2012…which will suck, but the carnage is fun to watch.

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In the wake of John Hillcoat’s The Road officially getting bumped to 2009, the LA Times’ Patrick Goldstein spoke with Harvey Weinstein about the juggling going on with a number of his other films. Speculation is that The Weinstein Co. is low on money, but Harvey has a rational answer for each move.

Fanboys. The story [...]

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Anamaria Marinca in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Forget about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, there’s a solid crop of DVDs coming out this week that didn’t quite hog so much attention but deserved to. Needless to say, there isn’t a single flying refrigerator among them.
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 [...]

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Viggo Mortensen and Ed Harris in Appaloosa opening in NY, LA and Toronto
Unless you live in New York or Los Angeles, this might be a good weekend to go see Burn After Reading again because there isn’t much to get excited about in this week’s new wide releases:

Ghost Town. Ricky Gervais is a dentist whose [...]

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George Clooney and Frances McDormand in Burn After Reading
You can almost hear the air being let out of the summer movie season. Overall it was a pretty decent four months of movies, but I for one am glad to see it coming to an end. Now it’s time to look forward to the last third [...]

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