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Spike Jonze’s Arcade Fire Film Might Just Be a Sandlot Homage With Guns

Posted on March 14, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Sometime last year, Spike Jonze shot a 30-minute film with Arcade Fire called Scenes From the Suburbs in honor of the Canadian indie band’s third album, The Suburbs . Today, the first trailer from said project (which was written by Jonze, Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler and Butler’s bandmate/brother Will) surfaced on the Internet, complete with so much suburban teenage ennui and narrator nostalgia that it ends up feeling like a modern-day version of the viewer-beloved 90’s movie The Sandlot . Let’s investigate.

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Full Super 8 Trailer Is as Awesome and Spoiler-Free as You’d Hoped

Posted on March 11, 2011 by | Leave a comment

I was one of the few who wasn’t totally enamored with the Super 8 Superbowl spot , which felt rushed and uneven to me. Knowing full-well that my minority opinion probably caused J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg no grief whatsoever, I’d still like to go ahead and formally apologize, because this new full length trailer is phenomenal.

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VIDEO: The Floating House in Pixar’s Up Becomes a Reality

Posted on March 7, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Here’s some (ahem) uplifting news to start the week: Real life just got a little bit closer to Pixar movies! Or at least closer to Up . A group of scientists have found that you actually can make a house float simply by tying hundreds of helium balloons to it. 300 balloons, to be exact. If this feat into isn’t cause for universal celebration, I’m not sure what is. Surely, an even larger group of scientists is working to take this research to its natural conclusion and find a way for humans to actually live inside the Pixar movies we love so dearly. Check out the video of the floating house after the jump.

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About 30 Characters Pursue a Hooker with a Hard Drive in the Cat Run Trailer

Posted on March 7, 2011 by | Leave a comment

In 2001, after Paz Vega’s sexy and moving performance in Sex and Lucia , I was poised for her to break out in America, or at least become a staple of quality indie films. I tried to keep hope alive after her false-start in Spanglish and a number of appearances in even more mediocre films, but I’m disappointed to report that her latest starring role in the Thriller/Comedy Cat Run isn’t doing my optimism any favors. At least this overstuffed, almost incoherent trailer sure isn’t.

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Quick, Let’s Name 50 Songs Glee Should Never Cover and Save Their Souls

Posted on March 5, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Let me be clear: Though I’m a Glee hater, I enjoy and endorse some of the show’s interesting song choices. During the Madonna episode, I liked the pep assembly version of “4 Minutes” and the all-male rendition of “What It Feels Like for a Girl” because they were unexpected tunes with unexpected singers. But most of the time Glee resorts to overly familiar hits, cheapens them, and shoehorns them into maddening storylines. That can be a tolerable practice, but let’s set aside 50 examples of untouchable pop majesty for Glee immunity. Add your own, please .

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Super Trailer: Instant Classic Gets Wrenching Preview

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Ha! [Cue honking gag horn] It’ll all make sense after a look at the trailer for Super , James Gunn’s outrageous (and outrageously violent) comedy featuring Rainn Wilson as a schmo-turned-crime-fighter working to reclaim his estranged wife (Liv Tyler) from an evil drug lord (Kevin Bacon). Along the way he enlists a young sidekick (Ellen Page) whose expertise in comics (and enthusiasm for head-busting) comes in handy on his quest.

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‘The Tsunami Keeps Cresting’: Charlie Sheen Heads to Haiti, Natch

Posted on March 5, 2011 by | Leave a comment

And that’s when Charlie Sheen officially morphed into a sweaty and twitchy edition of The Onion . Speaking with Access Hollywood host Billy Bush, the future radio station said that he plans on heading to Haiti (!) with Sean Penn (!!) to do humanitarian work. “I’m excited as hell because, you know, if I can bring the attention of the world down there, then clearly this tsunami keeps cresting,” said Sheen in the most flagrant example yet of his addiction to mixed metaphors. What else is happening in Sheenworld?

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DVD: Five Non-John Hughes ’80s Teen Comedies That Are Still a Bajillion Times Better Than Take Me Home Tonight

Posted on March 5, 2011 by | Leave a comment

So not only does Take Me Home Tonight get the small details wrong — someone makes a Rain Man reference even though TMHT is set during Labor Day Weekend 1988 and Rain Man wouldn’t be seen for a few more months — it also fails to capture the charm and the laughs that we think of when we recall the great teen flicks of the 1980s. And even taking the great John Hughes out of the equation (and seriously, TMHT , how very DARE you have sent your characters to “Shermer High”? Blasphemy!), there are plenty of actual ’80s movies that will bring you far more joy this weekend on DVD than this crappy new comedy. Ahead, five better options.

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Feral: Teaser Trailer for Puss in Boots Goes Astray

Posted on March 5, 2011 by | Leave a comment

As promised , here’s that new trailer for Puss in Boots . Here’s all you need to know about the first teaser trailer the Shrek spin-off: It starts with an Inception -like montage of words and dissonant horns that ends in a “nine lives” joke. Har! Higher level here, folks! Let’s take a look at this warlock.