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Nick Frost on Tintin, Spielberg Love, The World’s End, and Snow White and the Huntsman

In the decade or so since Nick Frost first made a name for himself on the BBC comedy series Spaced , much has happened. For starters, he’s not waiting tables at that Mexican restaurant. He’s moved with ease from television to film, most famously in genre riffs Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz (with Spaced comrades Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg ), and in the alien geek ode Paul (which he co-wrote and stars in with Pegg). Also notably, Frost has ventured out from the fold in films like Pirate Radio and the forthcoming Snow White and the Huntsman . And, with this week’s The Adventures of Tintin , he notches another milestone: Working with his hero, Steven . Steven Spielberg .

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Nick Frost on Tintin, Spielberg Love, The World’s End, and Snow White and the Huntsman

Don’t Hate, Celebrate the Top 9 Not-So-Guilty Pleasures of 2011

Traditionally a “guilty pleasure” is something you’d be embarrassed for the world to know you secretly enjoyed or for your Facebook friends to see you clicked on, but you know what? Around here we embrace the bad-to-godawful movies we love, and besides; what the heck does it even mean to like something ironically, you insufferable hipster? Toss away your pretentious hat, sit down in the circle of trust, take a deep breath, and join Movieline in unabashedly celebrating the inane, misguided, off-the-mark, and downright B-A-D but nevertheless shamelessly entertaining movies of the year – the Top 9 Not-So-Guilty Pleasures of 2011 . Because we all love some terrible things, don’t we?

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Don’t Hate, Celebrate the Top 9 Not-So-Guilty Pleasures of 2011

The Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Trailer: Fourth Verse Same as the First?

Much like The Matrix spawned two unwatchable sequels, so too did Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl ; in fact, if you can even remember one nonsensical plot point from either mega-grossing sequel — hell, if you can even remember their titles — you’re already ahead of many people watching the just released teaser trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides . Still, that first film — that was fun! Can Pirates 4 recapture the glory?

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The Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Trailer: Fourth Verse Same as the First?