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James McAvoy’s Sunny Stroll
Published 6/22/2008 by Just Jared at Just Jared
... during a romantic stroll through the SoHo neighborhood of New York City on Saturday. The 29-year-old Scottish actor is in town to promote his latest action thriller, Wanted , which opens on silver screens everywhere this Friday, June 27. Angelina Jolie costars. So far, Wanted has garnered a perfect 100% on RottenTomatoes.com . That is unheard of! 20+ pictures inside of James McAvoy’s sunny stroll… ...

10 Awful Matrix “Bullet Time” Spoofs
Published 6/23/2008 by Christopher Campbell at SpoutBlog
... It’s no wonder that until yesterday, I had pretty much dismissed Wanted, because of that Matrix-like bullet time sequence in which Morgan Freeman shoots around a slab of meat to hit an unseen target. Yet as of yesterday, the movie’s Rotten Tomatoes rating was 100% (Anthony Lane’s New Yorker review, posted today, is the first “rotten” one, taking it down to 92%). Now I’m more intrigued. Still, it doesn’t change the fact that that bullet time sequence is there, reminding me of the worst that The Matrix ...

Wanted is Getting Good Reviews (So Far)
Published 6/24/2008 by Craig Beilinson at Craig's MovieBlog
I know, it’s early yet.  But still, this gets my hopes up.

SUMMER OF BLOOD: IN WHICH JOHN HOWARD CARPENTER LOSES HIS FREAKING MIND
Published 7/21/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Tim) at Antagony & Ecstasy
... gets introduced, once when his mother (Leigh French) is arguing with the admitting nurse about finding a doctor, and once when he leaves, all healed up. He serves exactly no plot purpose whatsoever. Whatsoever . It seems like an annual thing for me to defend whatever outrageously gory horror flick just opened from the legions of moralistic critics who think that showing people dying in pain is the sure sign of a depraved sociopath behind the camera and/or in the audience (meanwhile, Wanted currently enjoys 73% on Rotten Tomatoes). But there's moral indignation and there's ...