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Snap Judgment: The New Trailer for 'The Dark Knight Rises'

Snap Judgment: The New Trailer for ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

Version 3.0 of The Dark Knight Rises trailer and everyone was getting all giddy over all the new footage — including myself. Let’s take a gander at the trailer: There were a handful of specific things that caught my attention: Christian Bale still likes to implement the “I am in desperate need of a lozenge”...
How 'The Avengers' Heroes Are Just Like Those 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' Misfits

How ‘The Avengers’ Heroes Are Just Like Those ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Misfits

I have seen The Avengers and as stated in the tweet immediately after the film, “I assembled all over myself.” Nonetheless, I am a geek for the comic books of the Marvel persuasion. I had a die hard loyalty to the characters of the X-universe, but my knowledge of The Avengers was present, but not...
Your Friendly Guide to DVD and Blu-ray Releases for May 1

Your Friendly Guide to DVD and Blu-ray Releases for May 1

Thanks to this, the whole world knows that Gina can kick the asses of Hollywood’s most handsome leading men! Haywire Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah as you’ve NEVER seen them before! Joyful Noise So you can celebrate New Year’s with people more famous than you: New Year’s Eve It wasn’t THAT bad, was it? W.E....
Trailer of the Week: 'Hotel Transylvania'

Trailer of the Week: ‘Hotel Transylvania’

Wouldn’t it be so cool if this place was real like that place in Hotel for Dogs? Synopsis: Welcome to the Hotel Transylvania, Dracula’s (Adam Sandler) lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up, free to be the monsters they are without humans to bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula...
9 Reasons Why You Should Watch 'The Five-Year Engagement'

9 Reasons Why You Should Watch ‘The Five-Year Engagement’

The Five-Year Engagement is the latest to come through that feel-good/crass comedy camp that includes citizens Jason Segel (co-writer/producer/actor), Nicholas Stoller (co-writer/director), and Judd Apatow (producer, 21st century comedy Godfather). The movie is EXACTLY what it sounds like: a five year engagement. Segel plays Tom to Emily Blunt‘s Violet. They get engaged and all is...
Please Caption This

Please Caption This

The first image from Ang Lee‘s movie adaptation of Yann Martel‘s book Life of Pi popped up on the internet and I think it deserves a caption. That’s when you come in. Caption this picture in the comment section below and I will share the best ones with the world.
Finer Feed: Beyonce is Beautiful, Kermit Breaks the Law in Germany, Mickey Mouse Club Reunion on 'The Voice'

Finer Feed: Beyonce is Beautiful, Kermit Breaks the Law in Germany, Mickey Mouse Club Reunion on ‘The Voice’

It’s official. Beyonce is more beautiful than any woman in the world. As for men, she up against stiff competition with with Ryan Gosling. [EW] The Muppets sequel is a go, but Kermit the Frog has broken some laws in Germany. The frog community is protesting the allegations as racist saying, “SEE! It really isn’t...
Watch How Awkward Actors Look in Their Movie Debuts

Watch How Awkward Actors Look in Their Movie Debuts

I love seeing early clips of big-time movie stars. They look really awkward — and in Jeff Goldblum’s case, a little creepy. Nonetheless, Flavorwire created a supercut of clips called “Encore” which has some of today’s biggest movie stars in their silver screen debuts set to some good ol’ fashioned Jay-Z music. Watch and prepared...
Your Friendly Guide to DVD and Blu-ray Releases for April 24

Your Friendly Guide to DVD and Blu-ray Releases for April 24

I would like to think that I, and I alone, discovered Adepero Oduye. Pariah This movie confused me so much because I am dumb and shallow. Perhaps owning it will allow multiple viewings so that it can confuse me even more. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy A highly underrated HBO film that needs your attention: Cinema...
My Rambling, Unstructured Thoughts About 'The Lucky One'

My Rambling, Unstructured Thoughts About ‘The Lucky One’

Oh Lord. Where do I start? I went into The Lucky One with preconceived notions that this would be catastrophic diarrhea of Nicholas Sparks-y cliches and gag-worthy boinking scenes that never happen in real life. Turns out, it wasn’t really diarrhea. It was — how should I put this — on the scale of regular,...
Trailer of the Week: 'Magic Mike'

Trailer of the Week: ‘Magic Mike’

Because there needs to be a movie about a man who strips in order to achieve his dream of becoming a furniture designer.
Finer Feed: R.I.P. Dick Clark, New Images from 'Bourne Legacy', Hopkins as Hitchcock,

Finer Feed: R.I.P. Dick Clark, New Images from ‘Bourne Legacy’, Hopkins as Hitchcock,

Dick Clark, you will be missed.[THR] Some new images from The Bourne Legacy trying to get us excited about the movie sans Matt Damon. Well, at least Pam Landy is still in it. [Collider] WHOA. Anthony Hopkins is looks so much like Alfred Hitchcock for the new film Hitchcock that it’s kinda freaky. [JoBlo] WHOA....