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REVIEW: The Thing Spells Out Every Little Thing Yet Tells Us Nothing

As we all know by now, Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.’s The Thing is not a remake of John Carpenter’s 1982 The Thing , which in turn wasn’t really a remake of Howard Hawks and Christian Nyby’s 1951 The Thing from Another World . So now we have two Things that are only tangentially related to the first Thing , although the thing about the third Thing is that it explains how the Thing of the second Thing demolished the Norwegian explorers who were dead by the time that Thing was even a thing. The Thing of the third Thing basically does the same thing we saw it do in the second Thing , so the third Thing probably isn’t for you if the second Thing wasn’t your thing.

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REVIEW: The Thing Spells Out Every Little Thing Yet Tells Us Nothing

VIDEO: iPhone 4S’s Siri Responds to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Prompts

Ok gadget hounds, so this Siri thing is pretty neat. AND she/it has a built-in sense for movie geekery, so if you happen to ask her, say, what the meaning of life is. (Answer: 42, duh.) Or slyly refer to the shenanigans of that uber-intelligent, all-knowing other futuristic supercomputer, HAL 9000. Watch video of Siri in action (at the 5:15 mark) after the jump and stick around for more Buzz Break.

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5 Successful ’80s Remakes — and Why They Worked

This Friday, a duo of ’80s remakes, The Thing and Footloose , hit the multiplex. And that’s just the beginning — because Hollywood is currently in various stages of redrafting your favorite films from that decade including Red Dawn , War Games and Dirty Dancing . In honor of this trend, let’s take a look at the most successful ’80s remakes so far and see what made them work.

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5 Successful ’80s Remakes — and Why They Worked

Universal Blinks, Scraps Tower Heist VOD Experiement

Buckling under the bruising blows of theater chains and independents who’d vowed to boycott the film, Universal has agreed to cancel its experimental VOD release of Tower Heist three weeks after the film opens on Nov. 4.

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Tree of Life 10-Word Review Contest: We Have Our Winners!

Let’s hear it for all the Movieline readers who turned out to critique Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life as part of our 10-word review contest! We’ve received some clever, concise and inspired submissions about the thought-provoking (and stoner-approved !) feature starring Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain and Sean Penn — which is out on DVD and Blu-ray this week! Alas, we could only pick two winners. Click through to see whose witty write-ups earned them a Tree of Life combo pack.

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Oscar Index: Actresses Gone Wild

Another week of awards-season data, developments and all-around deconstruction result in this latest edition of Oscar Index. Movieline’s bleary-eyed researchers at the Institute for the Advanced Study for Kudos Forensics have been working overtime studying the news and speculation around the awards punditocracy, observing a few major bumps here and there but a fairly steady week overall. Let’s check it out.

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The Great Tarantino/McQueen Slave-Movie Duel, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Happy Wednesday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Yet another possible Leonardo DiCaprio project surfaces… Aaron Sorkin declined Steve Jobs’s invitation to write a Pixar film… Hilary Duff wants to be the next Stephenie Meyer… Occupy Wall Street’s celebrity dynamic gets a closer look… and more.

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The Great Tarantino/McQueen Slave-Movie Duel, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Kristen Stewart’s Snow White and the Huntsman Sounds Increasingly Badass

“Basically, I’m fighting evil — I’m fighting the most evil motherf–kers — and it’s fine that they’re being killed,” Kristen Stewart told Box Office Magazine of her currently-filming Snow White and the Huntsman . “It’s anguish. It’s literally f–king anguish. She takes absolutely no pleasure in ever hurting anything. I’m exhausted right now and I was thinking, ‘The fight stuff is coming up, maybe that won’t be so bad.’ And then I realized that they’re probably going to be my most emotional scenes because I’m killing people and I’m Snow White. It’s a really f–king cool way to approach a movie where so many people die.” Score another badass point in favor of SWATH . Sorry, other Snow White movie . [ Box Office Magazine ]

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5 Essential ‘Coming Out’ Movies, In Honor of LGBT History Month

October’s designation as LGBT History Month and yesterday’s National Coming Out Day is more than enough reason to revisit five movies that chronicle coming out, the disorientation that comes with queer self-identification, and the still-underrepresented world of gay romance. Our quintet includes a touch of the mainstream, a dollop of the obscure, and a heady mix of fantasy and reality. Cue up your Mama Cass solo discs!

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Craig Brewer on Remaking Footloose, How It’s Like Purple Rain, and Tarzan

Craig Brewer knows that some of you are skeptical about his remake of Footloose , the 1984 Kevin Bacon teen classic about lusty high-schoolers who kick off their Sunday shoes, strain against their small town conservative parents, and “angry dance” their way to prom. But the director, who helped bring rap music to the Academy’s attention in his Oscar-winning Hustle & Flow (and next chained Christina Ricci to a radiator in Black Snake Moan , another tale set in the Southern region where Brewer was raised), comes at it with a fan’s devotion and with an awareness of how religion, morality and politics still overlap in the lives of teenagers today. And, as he watched Kevin Bacon do when he was a kid watching Footloose on the big screen, Brewer admits to indulging in his fair share of “angry dancing.”

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Craig Brewer on Remaking Footloose, How It’s Like Purple Rain, and Tarzan