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New Iron Sky Trailer: The Moon Nazis Cometh

Posted on May 14, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Are you, by chance, familiar with the movie Dead Snow ? (Of course you are, but please, just play along.) Here’s the pitch: Nazi zombies terrorize some medical students on a ski vacation. Nazis, zombies, skiing, terror. This is an excellent pitch. Chances are good that you, the discerning moviegoer, would be interested in such a film. (Please wait until the end of this post to click over to Netflix and do a Watch Now. It’s not going anywhere.) But you know what? That’s only the second-best Nazi-related pitch you’re going to hear today. How about:

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23 Questions About Lost Episode 615, "Across the Sea," Answered!

Posted on May 12, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Previously on Lost : Two men sit on a beach. Two men sit on a beach, one wearing a white ensemble, the other dressed in black. Two men sit on a beach, chatting with an undertone of mystery and menace. Two men sit on a beach, and one of them is all, “I’m gonna learn some loopholes, and then I’m going to kill you!” And the other one’s like, “Go right ahead, brah. I’m mostly unkillable!” Then the two men Indian leg-wrestle, with the one in black throwing in some illegal noogies. “Bah! I’m gonna kill you, you’ll see!” he says. “See you in Hell, or on another Purgatory island or something, tough guy!” Eventually, an atom bomb explodes. Let’s cherish this time together, as we have only two more episodes to raise our Questions, and search for our Answers. Like the ones we’re about to ask concerning “Across the Sea,” right now!

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Movieline Goes Deep Inside Robin Hood’s Amazing $237 Million Budget

Posted on May 11, 2010 by | Leave a comment

By now, you’ve probably seen the staggering number : $237,000,000. No, it’s not an early round of federal aid to help keep Greek garbage collectors on the job in an attempt to stave off anarchy on the Peloponnesus for a few more days. It’s the budget for Robin Hood , Universal’s opening volley in the summer blockbuster wars. As the document leaked to The Wrap is maddeningly vague, Movieline has decided to dig a little deeper to try and detect some of the culprits in the production’s bloat; not surprisingly, a significant portion of it can be found in excessive “above the line” expenditures, where the talent, director, and producers exact their pounds of budgetary flesh.

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Justified, Round Two

Posted on May 3, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Even though Justified has lost approximately half of its viewers since its premiere — which was the most-watched in network history — FX is betting big on its Tim Olyphant drama by giving it another full-season order. That means that Graham Yost’s critically acclaimed project has 6 more episodes this season plus another 13 next year to pick up momentum before Sony has to begin cost-sharing conversations with DirecTV , Damages -style. Come on people, pay attention to quality.

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Movieline Liveblogs The Human Centipede!

Posted on April 30, 2010 by | Leave a comment

OK. Okay . Here’s what’s about to happen: I’m going to go into the living room, fire up the cable box, and order Human Centipede On Demand (it’s not playing in Los Angeles yet, but Time Warner has generously made it available at the push of a button), and I’m going to liveblog it here, doing my absolute best not to faint, vomit or tear out my hair while screaming in anguish at my Maker about how He could allow something like this to exist. Is this a stupid stunt? Of course it is. But I need to find out for myself — and for you, the reader who has too much sense to subject him or herself to this cinematic abomination — if this is, in fact, 2010’s Most Barfiest Movie. Join me in this potentially soul-extinguishing exercise after the jump: (It should go without saying, but there will be many SPOILERS ahead.)

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EXCLUSIVE: The C-Word Defends Itself Against The Kick-Ass Controversy

Posted on April 16, 2010 by | Leave a comment

You’ve followed about the critical feuds and read the think-pieces about how this weekend’s most talked-about debut at the multiplex, the hyper-violent, mega-profane Kick-Ass , is poised to offend American moviegoers’ delicate sensibilities. But until now, you haven’t heard from one of the film’s most controversial players, one that’s been squarely in the center of the firestorm. And so Movieline reached out to the C-Word itself to chat about how it’s being portrayed in the overheated media coverage of a movie masterfully engineered to delight fanboys while giving cautious parents’ naughty places an inappropriate squeeze.