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Bad Movies We Love: Muppets From Space

Posted on November 23, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Call me a glum frog with a hand flapping up my ass, but I didn’t love The Muppets . Jim Henson’s franchise is about goofy, heartfelt antics, and his whimsy warps into a barrage of Glee tunes, self-conscious dorkiness and perky, perky people under the pen of Jason Segel. It’s a no for me. Luckily, the ’90s already gave us a solid, if stupendously, un -self-consciously dorky Muppets update in the form of Muppets From Space . It’s not exactly a part of the classic Kermit cannon, but that’s because it’s a tangential Henson operation. Think of it as Muppets Origins: Gonzo . Now you’re in.

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REVIEW: Michelle Williams Achieves Near-Perfection in Less-Than-Perfect My Week with Marilyn

Posted on November 23, 2011 by | Leave a comment

There are some movies that have little or nothing to recommend them, except as a frame for a performance. My Week with Marilyn is that kind of movie. Based on writer and documentary filmmaker Colin Clark’s memoir of the time he spent with Marilyn Monroe while working as an assistant to Laurence Olivier on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl , My Week with Marilyn manages to be both slender and overworked, a picture that states over and over again, in the baldest terms, how emotionally fragile Monroe was. We know, we know already. My Week with Marilyn has a TV-biopic sheen, and you could dismiss it easily — except for the fact that Michelle Williams, as Marilyn, both anchors the movie and upends it. Miss it and you’ll miss one of the finest performances of this year.

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Miss Piggy on The Muppets, Amy Adams’ ‘OK’ Voice, and Kermit’s Dirty Secret

Posted on November 23, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Miss Piggy has been a TV and movie star for decades, but in The Muppets , she finally gets the spotlight to herself and dominates the entire film start to finish — or so she’d have us believe. The Muppets is a showcase for many of her colleagues, but she’s the only character who gets a split-screen duet with Amy Adams and a very contemporary wardrobe. Movieline caught up with the porcine superstar (who is voiced by Eric Jacobsen) to discuss the new movie, her new look,and the bodily secret that Kermit doesn’t want you to know.

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John Landis Remembers Eddie Murphy As a Jerk

Posted on November 23, 2011 by | Leave a comment

“When I made Trading Places , Eddie was 19 or 20 and bouncing off the wall with talent and was a very happy guy,” John Landis recalled recently about this year’s Academy Award host drop-out . “When I made Coming to America , it was a few years later, Eddie had become an international star and was not as happy. It was awkward on that film because he was kind of a jerk, and we had a real falling out. But still we worked together very well.” [ NYT ]

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Crew Member Dies in G.I. Joe 2 Set Accident

Posted on November 23, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Tragic news from the New Orleans set of G.I. Joe: Retaliation , where a crew member suffered fatal injuries after an accident while breaking down the set. Filming closed earlier this week under director Jon M. Chu , who had already Tweeted his departure from the set days before the incident occurred. The tragedy marks the latest in a string of on-set accidents on big budget studio productions including The Expendables 2 and The Hobbit .

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Louis’s Thanksgiving: 5 Movie-Related Things I’m Thankful For in 2011

Posted on November 23, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Happy Thanksgiving, my naughty little puritans. Before I jump headfirst into the HoKa turkey that Gloria Virtel is graciously preparing, I thought I’d share the five filmic things I’m most thankful for in 2011. Join me as I thank national treasures like Jon Hamm, Penn Badgley, and Twitter’s new empress.

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Kenneth Branagh on My Week With Marilyn, His Brush With Olivier, and the Curse of the Difficult Actor

Posted on November 22, 2011 by | Leave a comment

As arguably the film world’s closest contemporary equivalent to Sir Laurence Olivier, the classically trained, commercially adventurous actor/filmmaker Kenneth Branagh makes an ideal candidate to play the great man in this week’s My Week With Marilyn .

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Talkback: Who’s Willing to Fight for 35mm?

Posted on November 22, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Few Tweeting, iPod-owning, Netflix-streaming, eternally online citizens of the 21st century would lament the advances and conveniences that digital gadgets and technologies afford, but what if you still love that which is made increasingly obsolete? In the film world, that widening gap stands between classic celluloid and digital projection; as studios like 20th Century Fox begin experimenting with digital-only distribution, where does that leave the folks who cherish the magic of watching films on, you know, film ?

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Who Goes ‘Hardest’ in the Eight New Avengers Character Posters?

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Though The Avengers doesn’t come out until May, it’s already time to play the same game we did with Bridesmaids ‘s first poster : Who goes hardest ? Is it Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man? Is it Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff? What about Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton? We score all eight characters’ ferocity and pick a winner after the jump.

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REVIEW: Arthur Christmas Overrides Ugly Digital Animation with Charm, Wit and Verve

Posted on November 22, 2011 by | Leave a comment

To dispatch with the pleasantries and get straight to the but : Arthur Christmas favors the late-century style of computer animation that turns characters into smooth, plasticky dirigibles, adding a Made-in-China cello-skin to faces and scenery alike and vacuum-sealing the works for maximum digital freshness. I’ve never cared for the look — if cartoons could be embalmed, that’s how I imagine they’d be — and in sharing a release weekend with a Muppets revival, the limits of Arthur ‘s CGI puppeteering seem even more stark. That is of course, until you consider almost everything outside of my but — which may well not be yours — which is to say the near-total mitigation of aesthetic bummers with an avalanche of charm, wit, and enlivening, highly oxygenated performances.

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