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In memoriam: David R. Ellis

It was about half hour before Final Destination 2 would start, and I'd already eaten a couple of "special" cookies, which I then chased down…

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The Movie Villain Hall of Fame: Timothy

"And Charlie … you fuck with me, I'll blind the kid and shoot out her knees." — Timothy, The Long Kiss Goodnight I mean, I…

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Movie review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Bob thinks the first Hobbit film is much better than its mixed reviews indicate.

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Fill it to the rim … with Pacific Rim!

Here's a look at some giant robot action we can get behind.

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Trailer-rama! Breaking down the Superman, Star Trek and Lone Ranger sneak peaks

Trailers for three of next summer's biggest movies bombarded the Net this week, leaving nothing but continuous and sometimes contentious fanboy debate in their wake….

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The Movie Villain Hall of Fame: Drexl Spivey

"You musta thought it was white boy day."

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Solving the Batman conundrum

The Internet fanboy echo chamber worked itself into a tizzy on Tuesday after Drew McWeeny of Hitflix reported that Joseph Gordon-Levitt will be playing Batman…

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Movie review: Skyfall

Which one of the double 0's stands for overrated?

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Swarm and fuzzy: The World War Z trailer

I'm very on the fence about the above trailer for the upcoming film adaptation of Max Brooks's seminal zombie epic World War Z. I do…

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The Disney deal closes the book on George Lucas and Star Wars

Yesterday's news that George Lucas had sold his entire Star Wars empire to Disney basically short-circuited my brain for a few hours. I was a…

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Is The Wolverine the X-film we should be excited about?

The X-Men movie universe is currently in a bit of disarray, and not just because an already convoluted and contradictory continuity is about to get…

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Movie review: Sinister

There's a moment in Sinister, maybe about halfway through, where the ending is clearly telegraphed to any viewer paying even the base level of attention….

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First Iron Man 3 trailer is pretty boss

It looks like Shane Black is bringing the goods.

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Five horror-flick suggestions for your Halloween viewing pleasure

Terrence has some movie recommendations for you.

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Movie review: Seven Psychopaths

There's a sequence near the two-third mark of Seven Psychopaths that perfectly captures the kind of meta, bloody delirium I think writer/director Martin McDonagh was…

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The Lone Ranger trailer is kind of bizarre

The Tom Wilkinson voice-over is nice. But, then again, you could make a half-hour recording of Tom Wilkinson reading this week's obituaries and I'd probably…

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Movie review: The Master

Somewhere along the way — perhaps immediately after Boogie Nights — Paul Thomas Anderson became less interested in telling stories than he did in just…

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Go on an adventure with the new Hobbit trailer

The original plan was to chat some about The Hobbit in last week's Cult Spark podcast, but that got bumped in favor of Dark Tower…

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Halloween coming back to theaters

The Shape returns to the big screen.

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How best to adapt The Dark Tower

Bob breaks down the perfect plan for filming The Dark Tower.

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