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Man, Brett Ratner is Everywhere!
6 hours ago
All right, I admit—I find this undeniably hilarious. For whatever reason, this Tumblr photoblog was started and it contains nothing but images of Brett Ratner photoshopped into recent movie posters.
Check out some of the other ones:
The Box
The Wolfman
The Road
And this one is just disturbing: Antichrist.
Some of these are really well done 'shops, too. From what I understand, this whole thing started as a recurring joke on the Xixax.com message board.
Keep up the good work, fellas.
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- Arya Ponto
Filmmakers Thank Movie Piracy for Popularity
10 hours ago
A newly released movie is pirated and spread around on torrent websites. Surely the producers must be furious? Not so much this time. While the typical Hollywood studio frowns on movies being shared on BitTorrent, it's a different story for independent filmmakers. Producer-writer-director Jamin Winans and fellow producer Kiowa Winans are happy and grateful that their movie Ink is being embraced by pirate sites.
It seems that within days of being ripped, the little movie no one's heard of has enjoyed a sudden boom in profile. Case in point, IMDb indicates that the film rose 81,093% on their MovieMeter this week alone. That's a pretty staggering upstream no matter how you look at it.
Here is an email the Winans sent to their company's newsletter:
Dear Fans and Friends,
Over the weekend something pretty extraordinary happened. Ink got ripped off. Someone bit torrented the movie (we knew this would happen) and »
- Arya Ponto
The Good, The Bad And The Wtf: Clashing News, Wolves and All
11 hours ago
Things to know about at this week: the first Clash of the Titans teaser, Steve Guttenberg still hanging onto his 80's glory, toy movies are still wanted, and the fantastic piece of news that is the death of the Oldboy remake. What's that? That's right. Read along.
The Good
• A very good poster for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland was posted on the Mad Hatter's official Facebook page. Two more are coming, presumably on the Red Queen and White Queen pages.
• A selection of props from Duncan Jones' Moon are up for auction on eBay, including Gerty himself! It's the actual full-size thing, measuring 83” x 33” x 27.5" and even signed by the director himself. As of writing it's still bidding at £1,000, so totally affordable if you're a collector.
• After being impressed by the new trailer for The Wolfman that was released a couple of weeks back, now I'm even more impressed by the posters. »
- Arya Ponto
[DVD Review] The Negotiator
18 hours ago
Pulse-pounding police dramas flood the film market place. Good cops, bad criminals and sometimes even worse cops make for compelling stories with lines that don’t always stay on the respective sides of black and white. Casting the excitable Samuel L. Jackson in the role of a man caught in that gray territory plays perfectly into the actor’s safe zone, as does Kevin Spacey playing a calm and controlling negotiator charged with navigating the path between total crisis meltdown and healthy resolution. The main and background players alike, many of whom even the casual viewer will recognize from bit parts, all take on roles well within their typecast boxes and the film benefits from their expertise. If any shortcoming can be found in the film it’s with the story’s convenient oversights at key moments, but unless you’re actively looking for them the story hurries along with a prompt pace. »
- Lex Walker
[TV] Gabriel Iglesias: I'm Not Fat...I'm Fluffy
10 November 2009 4:00 AM, PST
Back in the day, the average “Comedy Central presents” routine lasted about 20 minutes and made for superb listening. The key factor there was that they never lasted longer than 20 minutes so the comedians never had to stretch their material too far. Ever since they began giving comedians full-length time slots the selection of great Comedy Central stand-up DVDs has dropped noticeably. With that said, comedians like Gabriel Iglesias remind us exactly why Comedy Central decided to extend that average runtime to over an hour. Here we have a routine that’s fully fleshed out and never relies too heavily on frat-boy humor or multiple takes on the same joke over and over. Like the best comedians out there, Iglesias takes not just humorous observations from life but the stories themselves and lays them out for the audience to see, funny and unfunny parts alike.
Getting his start as one of »
- Lex Walker
[DVD Review] The Gambler, The Girl and The Gunslinger
9 November 2009 10:00 AM, PST
It’s hard to make a decent western film these days. For period pieces, whether they are set 50 years in the past or the future, the issues of costumes and continuity become a huge burden and threaten the films overall quality. With every good western we see there are dozens upon dozens that go straight to DVD with nothing to set them apart from the droves. The Gambler, The Girl and the Gunslinger bypassed both steps and went straight to TV, yes folks, this is a direct-to-tv movie making its DVD debut. Now, I’m not so elitist as to immediately look down on a film for being made for the small screen but that really doesn’t matter since the movie has so many issues anyways.
After you’re done applauding the writers or marketers for their stunning use of alliteration on the title, you can begin to understand »
- Lex Walker
[TV] Show Me Yours: The Complete Series
9 November 2009 7:00 AM, PST
Sex sells. If the average marketing campaign in the United States can convince you of anything, it’s that. Equal parts Kinsey and Ally McBeal, Show Me Yours dances along that fine line separating sexual promiscuity and exploration. So why didn’t Show Me Yours ever get the American attention such a sex-oriented feature would typically garner? Even after the first episode it’s abundantly clear that sex is the order of the day, after all, it’s at the dead center of the plot. For whatever reason, the age of Canadian-to-American television pipeline seems to have dried up. Show Me Yours may have found an American outlet via Oxygen (you know, the other channel aimed primarily at women), but it never found the audience it really deserved.
Dr. Kate Langford (Rachael Crawford) studies sex from the psychological angle. Her ideas are fresh and she even has a book deal in the works. »
- Lex Walker
[DVD Review] Logan's Run
9 November 2009 4:00 AM, PST
The best science fiction takes modern perspectives on culture and society and forces us to see them in a new light by casting them in an alternate form. In the case of 1976’s futuristic epic Logan’s Run, directed by Michael Anderson and starring Brit film icon Michael York and Americana dream girl Farrah Fawcett (who receives some top billing despite having a relatively minor role), basic attitudes towards age, religions and the advancement of civilization come under fire through a variety of well-crafted devices and metaphors. Further anchoring Logan’s Run in the echelon’s of great sci-fi are stellar performances and what were once considered cutting edge special effects – all of it remastered for a Blu-ray release.
In the year 2274, the society of Logan’s Run exists in a state of hedonistic perfection: everyone lives out of the range of nature’s harsh influences within domes where all »
- Lex Walker
[TV] Television Snippets - Sweeping Up
9 November 2009 2:42 AM, PST
As we approach Fall Sweeps, the fall season is full ramped up and ready to go, with a slew of renewals and suspensions, new ratings giants, old favorites continuing to fade out, and the World Series finally ending so we can go back to our regularly scheduled programming.
In ratings news, the headline for Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday was "World Series dominates ratings." The World Series hit a 5 year high this year with viewers, ranging from 16 to 22 million viewers a game. In Tuesday ratings news, V, which faced a large number of hurdles in getting on the air, debuted to huge numbers. While not able to beat TV ratings goliath NCIS (19.4 million viewers), the ABC science fiction had a healthy 13.9 viewers and won the ever important 18-49 age range for viewers.
Sadly enough for me, a repeat of Bones on Friday night at 9pm brought in 4 million viewers, far more »
- Max Alexis
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