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Bad Movies We Love: Logan’s Run

Sexually exciting news: This week’s important new movie Spy Kids: All the Time in the World 4D (that’s not the sexually exciting part) is both “futuristic” and “sci-fi” — which means we have reason to revisit the futuristic, sci-fi lovefest of Logan’s Run . Hooray! It’s one of the most decadent, senselessly gorgeous Bad Movies We Love of all time. Better we re-watch it now than after the remake comes out and destroys our nostalgia. Are you ready for ray guns, cult-like “carrousels” of death, and the hirsute hotness of Peter Ustinov?

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Bad Movies We Love: Logan’s Run

The New Trailer for the George Lucas-Produced Red Tails Gets Shot Down

Fighter piloting is inherently cinematic, so when a new movie comes out in the vein of Memphis Belle and Top Gun , I already hear the swells of music and gunfire. But in the case of Red Tails , the new Anthony Hemingway drama that arrives in theaters January 20, the grace of the genre is replaced with spotty dialogue and catatonic performances. Cuba Gooding Jr., you may as well call this movie Plane Trip .

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The New Trailer for the George Lucas-Produced Red Tails Gets Shot Down

Commercial Vet Michael Gracey to Direct Hugh Jackman’s Barnum Biopic

Did you need another circus movie? Good. Because Michael Gracey — a commercial/VFX veteran who just signed on to helm the Snow White picture The Order of the Seven — will direct Hugh Jackman in The Greatest Showman on Earth , a musical biopic of 19th century circus master P.T. Barnum written by Sex and the City scribe Jenny Bicks. Hopefully it will redeem the recent misfire Water for Elephants and 1952’s The Greatest Show on Earth , which remains the most dubious Best Picture winner of all time. Jackman’s Boy from Oz zest is perfect for the role, so I suspect he’ll keep the movie from becoming another third-ring sideshow. (Ding!) [ Variety ]

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