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A Star Wars Virgin Experience

9 hours ago | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

On the 13th November 2009, almost 32 years after the legendary Star Wars film was first released in the UK on 27th December 1977, A good friend (who shall remain anonymous) came to my house to watch the Original Holy Trilogy: A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi for the first ever time.

He is the same age as me (31) and I’m sure he watched the same TV channels as me at Christmas in the 80’s and 90’s when Star Wars was played religiously each year and families crowded round the TV to watch them as they became a part of tradition.

He must have heard about Star Wars in the 80’s but for some reason he never sat down and watched them or even played with the Star Wars toys, which were probably found in almost every home back then.

I know some of his friends and »

- Gary Phillips

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Nikki Kruex ('Dead Reckoning', 'The Story of Annie Kellister')

19 hours ago | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »

Interview by Nic Brown

What can you say about someone whose list of interests include horror movies, anime, video games, guns and bows, serial killers, and kung fu movies? Well if you’re talking about Nikki Kruex, you can say that you’re just scratching the surface of this actress, model, musician, paranormal investigator and artistic Jill-of-all-trades...

In fact if you visit her website, www.nikkihomicidek.ws, you’ll find a page for just about every aspect of the entertainment industry. Somehow Nikki still manages to find time for fun and when she does you may find her doing anything from shooting a crossbow to playing Grand Theft Auto. Of course with multiple film projects, a new album coming out soon and a paranormal investigation show just waiting to take off, you won’t find her relaxing much. Fortunately, Nic Brown managed to pin down this creative tornado long enough »

- Superheidi

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Birthday Suits: Good Hair, and Good Music.

14 November 2009 7:29 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Celebrating the birthdays of the film-famous. If it's your birthday, we'll sing you a happy one in the comments.

Louise Brooks, Veronica Lake and Josh Duhamel

1906 Louise Brooks, dancer, silent film actress, icon, quotable diva, film critic, memoirist, ...Lost Girl, Lulu. Her hair is legend.

1908 Joseph McCarthy, he saw only Red(s). He's been a villainous figure in movies ever since, whether seen, unseen or fictionalized. See: Guilty by Suspicion, The Way We Were, The Manchurian Candidate, Good Night, and Good Luck. and many more...

1919 Veronica Lake, femme fatale, purveyor of the peek-a-boo bang (her hair also being legend). Kim Basinger didn't even have to get "cut" to look like this goddess in La Confidential. She just had to sell those glorious blonde waves.

1945 Paul Hirsch, editor of Carrie, Star Wars (Oscar win), Ferris Bueller's Day Off and more...

1951 Zhang Yimou, fine director, awesome goddess worshipper. Think of what he »

- NATHANIEL R

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Emmerich Wants Two ID4 Sequels, Fox Says No

13 November 2009 2:22 PM, PST | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »

While doing press for 2012, director Roland Emmerich has told some outlets this is his last mass-destruction movie, calling it the “mother of all disaster movies.”  However, other press interviewers have asked about the sequel to Independence Day that keeps popping up in the news.

Emmerich doesn’t see the contradiction, instead expanding on his comments a month ago concerning the idea stages for a sequel. In an interview with MTV, the director said, “What we want to do in the next – it’s actually two movies – we want to do a bigger arc. Independence Day was always like the king who leads his troops into battle against an evil force, and that stays like that.” The “we” he’s referring to is likely himself and Dean Devlin, the co-writer of ID4 and producer of several other Emmerich disasters.

The follow-up question was about the name for this epic, which Emmerich »

- Jeff Leins

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Cameron Confesses ‘Titanic’ Wasn’t a Passion Project

13 November 2009 2:13 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Ever wonder where Titanic got the drive to be so unbelievably, terrifyingly successful?  Turns out the highest-grossing film of all time was only looking for acceptance from its distant, enigmatic director, James Cameron – acceptance that never came.  James Cameron shared his thoughts on the doomed ship flick (and apparently everything else) in an interview with Playboy, due out in December.

Cameron went on to say:

“I made Titanic because I wanted to dive to a shipwreck, not because I particularly wanted to make the movie…Titanic was about ‘f*ck you’ money…”

 

He might mean ‘lots of money.’  Remind me to use that on grandma when she asks how much turkey I want on Thanksgiving.  Speaking of family, Cameron had this to say about his:

“They were pretty much against everything. I can’t think of anything my dad was for except hockey. He used to throw my comics and »

- Scott Miller

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Family Guy ‘Empire Strikes Back’ Parody Trailer

13 November 2009 2:01 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

To round off this Friday nice and easy, I thought I’d post a little something to get you laughing (or hopefully at least chuckling). Family Guy has become a household name at this point, but the show managed to out do itself back in 2007 with its season 6 premiere, “Blue Harvest”, an hour-long parody of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

Well, today we have the trailer for Family Guy’s follow up to “Blue Harvest”, which could only be an equally hilarious skewering of the next film in the Star Wars canon, The Empire Strikes Back.

 

With “Blue Harvest” the Family Guy team lampooned pretty much everything you could ever want to make fun of in a Star Wars movie, and earned extra points for inserting all our favorite characters from Quahog into ironic (and gross) Star Wars roles. [Nerd Alert] “Blue Harvest” was the fake working title used during »

- Kofi Outlaw

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South Park Rips on Avatar

13 November 2009 11:07 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

By now I would hope most of you have seen the latest episode of South Park, entitled “Dances With Smurfs” (if not, you need to go Here right away and do so!). The episode follows in the show’s great tradition of intelligent inappropriateness, this time lampooning such things as school shootings (really pushing it there), the current political landscape (hilarious) and, in a twist-turn in the final 1/3, James Cameron’s upcoming sci-fi epic, Avatar.

So what do all those random things have in common? Only the minds behind South Park know for sure…

 

[Spoiler Alert!!! Watch The Episode Before You Read This!!!]

What basically happens is this: Cartman uses his manipulative talents to take over the school announcements job and quickly becomes a Glenn Beck clone, tearing into class president Wendy for being a “Smurf hater” who is trying to turn the school into a “socialist regime” (Beck himself thought the lampooning was pretty funny, Btw). Of course »

- Kofi Outlaw

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Q&A: Emmy Rossum Plans to Name Her Children Oscar, Tony, and Grammy

13 November 2009 8:09 AM, PST | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »

Photograph at left by Adam Kuehl. Do you remember what you were doing when you were seven years old? When I was that age, I was playing with Star Wars action figures and seeing how much Bubblicious I could cram into my mouth. But not Emmy Rossum. At the tender age of seven, she was making her professional operatic debut. She performed in Carmen at New York's Metropolitan Opera, and The Damnation of Faust at Carnegie Hall. She shared the stage with Luciano Pavarotti and Plácido Domingo, acting in dozens of productions in six different languages, all before she turned 18. Emmy Rossum is living proof that you probably wasted your adolescence. She's also done pretty well for herself as a young adult. Remember when child actors used to burn out on drugs and become tabloid fodder? Rossum decided to skip the Drew Barrymore fuck-all-of-you-i-want-more-pain-meds stage of her career and move directly into making movies. »

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The Morning Meme (Friday, November 13, 2009)

13 November 2009 6:06 AM, PST | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »

The folks over WorldOfWonder just did an interview with the man that makes Lady GaGa look like Lady GaGa. Or at least the newest glam version, as she appeared in "Bad Romance" which we showed you yesterday morning. It's interesting, in that I haven't spent as much time on my looks in 38 years as he did on hers for one three minute video. 

Rod 2.0 has a report up about Starlight, the oldest gay bar in Brooklyn, and the oldest black gay bar in the United States is facing closure because of a property deal that includes the building that has housed the neighborhood staple since the 1960s.

When I heard that Hollywood, lacking an original thought amongst themselves, had decided to turn board games into movies, the only one that I thought had a chance was Candyland, and only then if it was Tim Burton and Johnny Depp doing it »

- lostinmiami

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2012

13 November 2009 4:08 AM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

2012

Directed by: Roland Emmerich

Cast: John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover, Woody Harrelson

Running Time: 2 hrs 38 mins

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: November 13, 2009

Plot: The world is about to end. Turns out the Mayans were right. A select few people are in on the ground work of saving the human race, while others, like Jackson Curtis (Cusack), are trying to desperately save their families from the mass destruction of the entire planet.

Who’S It For? This film doesn’t even allow you to turn off your brain. Just like 10,000 BC and The Day After Tomorrow there are enough head-scratching moments, if you want to laugh at the film. But If all you live for is special effects, I can’t stop you.

Expectations: Who doesn’t love John Cusack? Not me. I don’t not love Cusack. Plus, I’m a big fan of Ejiofor and Peet, »

- Jeff Bayer

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How Peta and Christian Serratos sexed up Twilight

12 November 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

New Moon just got a whole lot raunchier

The Hollywood writer Peter Biskind wryly observed the lengths to which George Lucas went to expunge the merest hint of sex from his Star Wars universe. It was always difficult not to be amused, then, that with the Sarlacc – the sharp-toothed, monstrously gaping mouth that threatens to swallow various characters in Return of the Jedi – Lucas subconsciously created "a nightmarishly explicit image of threatening female sexuality", more succinctly described as a "vagina dentata".

And so to Twilight. The next instalment of the chaste teen vampire series had its London premiere on Wednesday, at which thousands of Twi-hards howled at their New Moon idols, all the while understanding that Bella and Edward can't have sex or she'll become a vampire, and that while Jacob's abs are useful in his line of work, getting within a non-chaperoned foot of them would result in some »

- Marina Hyde

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“Scene Selection” Review ‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’ with George Clooney, Ewan McGregor

12 November 2009 1:43 PM, PST | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »

Scene Selection review of ’The Men Who Stare At Goats‘ by Alex Kartman

for MovieSet.com

George Clooney is blossoming into a great comedic actor (not including the dismal Batman and Robin, because that’s only funny because of how awful it is). His five most recent films, including two yet to be released, all are comedies in one form or another: “Leatherheads,” “Burn After Reading,” “The Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “Up in the Air,” (not a total comedy, but he maintains his charm and whit in the trailers), and this past weekend’s “The Men Who Stare at Goats.” What is so amazing about Clooney is that three of the films are releasing between now and Christmas. Talk about a guy committed to acting. The flip side is that he had no other films released this year.

Lyn Cassady (George Clooney) and Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) in Overture Films’ The Men Who Stare At Goats. »

- Alex Kartman

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Boos! and Whoop-doos!: Finding Shoptimism in a Socioeconomic Crisis!

12 November 2009 12:26 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

Lee Eisenberg's Shoptimism? Whoop-doo!

I'm broke. This is no new revelation. I've been heading down this road for a while. I work. I make a decent enough living. But there's no middle ground, and the weight is suddenly bearing upon my pocket book. All of my cash is going directly into bills, food, and gas. There is nothing left over. This wasn't always the case. How did I let this happen? Credit Card bills? A little. Everything I have put on credit has been a necessity that I couldn't afford in the moment. It's the socioeconomic cries of our times that have gotten me down. We're supposed to be coming out of a recession. And personally, I thought I wasn't being affected. I could at least still buy a DVD or two come payday.

Not anymore. I took on the challenge of becoming a single paycheck household in the »

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'New Moon' Eclipses 'Twilight' As The #4 Top Advance Ticket-seller On Fandango

12 November 2009 11:54 AM, PST | twilightersanonymous.com | See recent TwilightersAnonymous news »

With just over a week to go until New Moon is officially in theatres it has already beat last years Twilight out for the number four place in advance ticket sales on Fandango... and there is still a week to buy those tickets! Read more belowAlthough thousands of next Thursday nights midnight showtimes are soldout across the country from Anchorage Alaska to Winter Park Florida tickets are still available while new showtimes are added regularly to keep up with the demand.Ever since we started selling advance tickets to New Moon on August 31 the demand has been unstoppable as the fan base just keeps growing every day says Fandango Chief Operating Officer Rick Butler. New Moon is tracking to be Fandangos 1 top advance ticketseller of all time.Currently New Moon ranks as the 4 top advance ticketseller in Fandango history toppling Twilight which previously held the spot.The Top 5 Advance TicketSellers »

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James Cameron Never Wanted to Make 'Titanic'

12 November 2009 9:43 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Perhaps the most comically brilliant interview of the month will come sandwiched between naked ladies as a lengthy chat with James Cameron will be featured in December's issue of Playboy. While we don't have the actual interview for you to read, Playboy sent over a whole batch of quotes that were just too good to resist. Based on the quotes, it would appear the interview covers everything from Cameron's directorial approach to his inspiration (Star Wars) to his personal life (married five times) to his films to Christian Bale's famous on-set tirade ("Man, I have to take my hat off to this guy. I could not pull a rant like that if I had to.' I mean, I can get on a roll but not like that. I just had to bow down.").

And speaking of his films, Cameron was quite candid when Titanic came up, admitting there »

- Erik Davis

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Cartoon Network lets Clone Wars fans design online games

12 November 2009 7:02 AM, PST | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »

If there aren't already enough Star Wars video games for your liking, you can make your own with Cartoon Network's Star Wars: The Clone Wars Game Creator.

With the animated action show continuing to draw big numbers on Friday nights, its home network is serving up a chance for fans to build their own Clone Wars game and share it with other gamers.

According to the network, these game creators aren't a stunt to generate TV show buzz. The Ben 10: Alien Force Game Creator posted more than 630 million game plays since it went live a year ago, with more than 4.6 million games created by online visitors.

Once fans open their game creator, they choose their character (Anakin Skywalker, Captain Rex or Cad Bane) and their vehicle (At-te, At-rt or Speeder), allowing nine different combinations of character abilities and vehicle powers.

Continue reading Cartoon Network lets Clone Wars fans »

- John Scott Lewinski

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Incredible New Photos from The Wolfman

11 November 2009 11:36 PM, PST | toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news »

Here’s a few awesome new movie stills from “The Wolfman” showcasing the special effects makeup by Academy Award winning makeup artist Rick Baker. We had the opportunity to interview Rick Baker (An American Werewolf in London, Star Wars) at the Chiller Eyegore Awards, watch it here. The upcoming film “The Wolfman” by director Joe Johnston stars Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving and Benicio Del Toro. Click Here for more photos, news and videos from The Wolfman. Plot: Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman, is lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father, Talbot sets out to find his brother… and discovers [...] »

- Brian Corder

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Game Review: ‘Lego Rock Band’ for XBox 360

11 November 2009 3:15 PM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment – $49.99

Score: 7.5

The music game formula is nothing new. Start out with a plastic instrument and pick a song. Successful completion of a song unlocks more popular but increasingly difficult tunes. For your sequel, include the ability to play as various famous recording artists, both living and dead. Lather, rinse, repeat. Occasionally pick a specific band and focus a game around them (i.e. Beatles Rock Band) or them and the music they inspired (like when we found out that Van Halen somehow relates to Third Eye Blind).

So what separates Lego Rock Band from the rest of the pack? Personality. Anyone who has picked up Lego Star Wars or Lego Batman sees that something special that Lego-izing a popular character or moment can bring to the screen. The unique and quirky humor of seeing a stormtroopers explode in to a pile of brings or watching the »

- John Carle

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Get Your Own Tauntaun Sleeping Bag

11 November 2009 1:15 PM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »

Even geeks need to keep warm, right? Especially in the frozen wasteland of Hoth. That’s why ThinkGeek has created the Tauntaun Sleeping Bag.

The sleeping bag comes complete with complete with saddle, printed internal intestines, a plush lightsaber zipper pull, and comfortable Tauntaun pillow head.

Once you get your hands on one of these babies, you’ll be the coolest person to have sleepovers with or you’ll educate your young ones about how The Empire Strikes Back is the best film of the Star Wars saga. Either way, the Tauntaun Sleeping Bag will set you back $99.99, a fair price to pay for supreme geek gear.

Tauntaun Sleeping Bags start shipping November 30th, just in time for the holiday season. Check back with The Flickcast for some more awesome holiday gift ideas to impress even the geekiest of your friends. »

- Cortney Zamm

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Votd: Star Wars Gangsta Rap Chronicles

11 November 2009 9:00 AM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

BentTV, the guys who created the original Star Wars Rap viral video, have created a sequel of sorts: Star Wars Gangsta Rap Chronicles. MCs Vader, Skywalker, Palpatine and Trooper are back with another edition of the hit animated series Star Wars Gangsta Rap. With surprise appearances from Leia, Lando, and all your favorite flow from a galaxy far, far away. I'm not so much impressed with the lyrics this time around, but the animation is impressive, and the expanse of the Star Wars universe is pretty epic. Check it out now, thanks to Atom Films, embedded after the jump. »

- Peter Sciretta

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