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REVIEW: Wim Wenders’ 3-D Pina Makes Its Own Joyful Dance

Now that everyone has grown tired of touting the allegedly thrilling promise of 3-D, we may have some chance of figuring out exactly what its future might be. While I still think 3-D is almost less than a gimmick, I’ve come to think that its real promise lies not in big-budget filmmaking along the lines of The Adventures of Tintin or even a picture as wonderful as Hugo , but in the hands of directors working on a more modest scale who simply have a good idea and a spark of enthusiasm for the medium. Wim Wenders has brought that spark to a rather unlikely subject, the late German modern-dance choreographer Pina Bausch. For years, Wenders and Bausch, longtime friends, had been working on a movie together. Bausch died suddenly in 2009, at age 68, and Pina is Wenders’ tribute to her, less a strict documentary than a heartfelt — and visually gorgeous — celebration of Bausch’s work and her mode of working.

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Christopher Plummer on Dragon Tattoo, Beginners Luck and Laughing Off Oscar

One week removed from his 82nd birthday, Christopher Plummer is winding up what one could arguably call a career year. And it’s been a long career — more than half a century’s worth of stage and screen roles comprising such milestones as The Sound of Music , The Man Who Would Be King , The Insider and The Last Station , the latter of which earned the Canadian legend his first-ever Academy Award nomination. But as the curtain closes on a memorable 2011 — most notably his acclaimed stage adaptation Barrymore , his awards-worthy performance in Beginners and this week’s blockbuster hopeful The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo — you’d be hard-pressed to find a time when Plummer wasn’t more beloved.

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GWAR Horse! Watch as Heavy Metal’s GWAR Reviews War Horse

I can’t believe it either, but I’ve chosen to accept GWAR — the satirical, Grammy-nominated heavy metal outfit — as real film critics. In a new clip , the costume-loving dudes both praise and rip on War Horse , unleashing a fiery badinage that Ebert and Roeper would have killed for. Just watch it, dammit.

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Rumor: Bill Murray Reportedly Shredded Ghostbusters 3 Script In Brilliant Act of Defiance

Presenting the best-worst Bill Murray rumor of the week: The National Enquirer (I know, I know) reports that the actor has finally gotten around to that Ghostbusters threequel script he had been avoiding for months — by shredding it and sending the carnage to Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis along with a note that read, “No one wants to pay money to see fat, old men chasing ghosts!” Fictional tabloid Bill Murray kind of has a point. [ The Playlist ]

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Oscar Winner Helen Mirren Will Visit Glee For ‘Hilarious’ Role

Glee has scored another Oscar-winning guest star. Nearly eight months after Gwyneth Paltrow’s last episode, the Fox musical series has cast Helen Mirren in a role that was written explicitly for the British actress.

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Harrison Ford Joins Asa Butterfield, Abigail Breslin and Hailee Steinfeld For Ender’s Game

Exciting news for fans of Orson Scott Card’s sci-fi series Ender’s Game : Harrison Ford has officially joined the cast as Hyrum Graff, the manipulative colonel responsible for training students in a futuristic military academy called Battle School.

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Oscar Index: Enough About Bridesmaids, Already

Screw Christmas. Forget Hanukkah. To hell with New Year’s. There is only one holiday we celebrate in the dank, windowless labs of Movieline’s Institute for the Advanced Study of Kudos Forensics, and that is Oscar Night. Thus the latest edition of Oscar Index, offering all the festive year-end joy you can possibly stand. Let’s get to it!

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REVIEW: The Adventures of Tintin Putt-Putts Along with a Terrier in Tow

There are times when too much of a good thing and not enough meet halfway and settle into a comfortable middle ground. That’s the case with Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin , which would be better if it had been made using more traditional animation techniques rather than that performance-capture nonsense and if 3-D weren’t one of its big selling points.

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REVIEW: The Adventures of Tintin Putt-Putts Along with a Terrier in Tow

Here is an Awards Podcast Featuring a Certain Movieline Editor

The Hollywood Reporter ‘s resident awards guru and all-around nice guy Scott Feinberg invited me to join him on the latest installment of his “Feinberg and Friends” podcast, which is now live at THR . Therein we go deep — like, deep deep, or Ed-Harris-gagging-down-amniotic-fluid-at-the-bottom-of-the-ocean-in- The Abyss deep — on this year’s awards race, including but not limited to…

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Do Scientologists Know it’s Christmas?

For those of you who’ve ever wondered if or how Xenu factors into the more conventional holiday season, along comes this dispatch from the Church of Scientology: “Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard honored the great religious leaders of the past for the wisdom they brought to the world, writing that Scientology shares ‘the goals set for Man by Christ, which are wisdom, good health and immortality.’ It is in this spirit that Scientologists celebrate the holiday season, whether Christmas, Hanukah [ sic ], Kwanzaa or any other religious or cultural tradition. In an annual tradition beginning in 1983 when Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard provided a 60-foot Christmas tree as a gift to the people of Hollywood, Winter Wonderland holiday village is erected each year on Hollywood Boulevard as a service to the community.” Annnnd now I can’t get “Frosty the Thetan” out of my head. [Press release]

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