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Pop Culture 101: Today Class - KNOCKED UP
film babble blog — ... ." To which Jay ads - "Panda Express, Yashinoya Beef Bowl." * Yep, it's a real site now. Random reference riffing : Shortly before Ben and Heigl meet, the guys discuss Speilberg's MUNICH - all agreeing on its awesomeousity. Ben : "Dude, every movie with Jews we're the ones getting killed. ...

Old Movies are New to Me
The Spoon — Thanks to the mystical powers of computahs and the internets I’ve been able to stave off complete movie deprivation by viewing compressed video files over the past few weeks. If the government asks, they’re all backups to my $30,000 movie collection. ...

New Star Trek Movie Details
Film Gecko — The new "Star Trek" movie will be hitting theaters on December 25, 2008 and now we’re getting our first look at the USS Enterprise.  Any other Trekkies out there feeling warm and fuzzy?  I know I am!  I was in Las Vegas recently and was fortunate enough to go to the "Star Trek Experience."  It just made this new movie (the first in 6 years) even more exciting!  JJ Abrams the man behind the hit television show, "Lost" is bringing the 11th installment of the "Star Trek" series to the ...

The Kite Runner (2007)
The Projection Booth — Dir: Marc Forster. Screenplay: David Benioff. Cast: Khalid Abdalla, Homayon Ershadi, Zekeria Ebrahimi, Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada, Shaun Toub, Nabi Tahna, Ali Dinesh, and Atossa Leoni. Any film worth its weight in celluloid can best be described as a representation of an idea, why and how that idea is expressed being left up to the particulars of the chosen story, genre, and every creative element apparent in the final product. This means of expression/sharing is culture in its most basic form, and among the primary reasons why I ...

I Really Hope Mike Myers’ “Love Guru” Movie Generates Religious Controversy
Best Week Ever — ... I'm not sure what Zed is so afraid of -- we all know that most Hindus are white people with curly moustaches and long beards and are Mike Myers. So what if the movie will merely re-confirm this well-known fact? I'm sure it's all in good fun.* (* = not actual "fun") I don't recall being offended when that one movie claimed that most Jews are blond Daniel Craig.

Indy Recall
The Projection Booth — Though I could probably tell you the exact location and circumstances under which I first saw some 90% of the films I’ve yet under my belt, Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of the those works with which my first encounter eludes the span of my memory. Admittedly, I may have first seen it at ...

Oie boie...
The Projection Booth — ...meesa thinkin' we havin' us another Lucas debacle here. Seriously. Let me say, first, that I didn't hate the film - in fact, I think I quite liked it, but a lot of reflection and at least another viewing will be necessary to really put things together. I enjoyed watching it and I appreciate the hell out ...

The Movie Blog’s Top 100 Movies Based On Books
AMC Entertainment Script To Screen Movie Blog — Well, today is the official opening day of “Twilight”. A very highly anticipated movie… not because of the marketing campaign (which has been average at best), but because of the rabid and loyal following that the book series has. With that in mind, I thought it would be an appropriate time to put together a top 100 movies list of movies that were based on books. Whenever I hear of a new movie coming out based on a popular book or comic book or a sequel, I instantly hear naysayers complaining about a “lack of creativity in hollywood”. “Why not write something ...

THE WWII MOVIE AS A STAID MUSEUM PIECE
Antagony & Ecstasy — [image] Edward Zwick might be the most consistent director in the history of cinema. His modus operandi : take a little-known but inspiring historical event - failing that, invent one - and falteringly turn it into a lumpy action film lousy with good intentions and lousier with clumsy execution. I honestly feel a bit bad for the man: he obviously means well, but every one of his films I've seen ends up pitched midway between a civics lesson and a crummy '80s flick, with the exception of Legends of the Fall , which is pitched midway between a civics lesson and a crummy Merchant Ivory flick. Eventully, it was ...

Kosha Dillz speaks on C-Rayz Walz, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and life as a Jewish rapper
33jones.com — Last fall I received an e-mail from a rapper on Amalgam Digital named Kosha Dillz, promoting a new album he had just released called Freestyle vs. Written. The concept of the album was fairly unique, with half of the album consisting of prewritten lyrics by Kosha and the other half made up entirely of freestyled verses from C-Rayz Walz. Along with the promo he included a link to one of his videos, the rather creative Holiday, which I put up on the site without much further consideration. Shortly thereafter, I was surprised to see a handful of comments on the site, and ...

WHY WATCH THE WATCHMEN?
Antagony & Ecstasy — [image] That Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's epochal 1986 comic book miniseries Watchmen would not survive a translation to cinema intact was an inevitability: it is far too long for even the most indulgent running time, and too much of its impact come from formal elements unique to the comic medium. Taking that as read, the question about Zack Snyder's new movie adaptation of the book is neither "Does this film triumph because of its fidelity to the source material?" nor "Does this film fail because of its departures from the source material?", though these seem to be the primary criteria for the fanboy armies ...

10 Worst Orgasms in Movies
SpoutBlog — In the 76 years since Hedy Lamarr came on the scene with her groundbreaking orgasm in the Czech film Ecstasy, we’ve seen countless onscreen simulations of sexual climax, few of which have been more awful and embarrassing than the one depicted in the new romantic comedy The Ugly Truth. The scene (watch it here) features Katherine Heigl’s character having an awkwardly pleasurable dinner meeting thanks to some vibrating panties and an unknowing kid in possession of the undergarment’s remote control. Obviously it ...

Eric Bana is so hot, Barbara Walters begged him to get naked
Cele|bitchy — Eric Bana has been promoting his supporting role in Funny People, and doing some early promotion for his lead role in The Time Traveler’s Wife, which will be out in November. He only did a couple of interviews before Funny People release, but many critics and reviewers singled Bana out as the best, funniest part of the film. Funny People’s director, Judd Apatow always claimed he hired Bana for the role because he was such a fan of Bana’s work in Munich (which really is an amazing film, one of Steven Spielberg’s best), and Apatow also claims it came as ...

Competition: Love the Beast
FILMdetail — We have 3 copies of Love The Beast to give away on DVD courtesy of Metrodome. Aussie actor Eric Bana makes his directorial debut with this documentary about his 25-year love affair with his first car – a Ford XB Falcon Coupe aka “The Beast”. Bana is best known for his roles in Chopper (2000), Hulk (2003) and Munich (2005) but here he explores his love of the classic sports car, with contributions from Dr. Phil McGraw, Jay Leno and Jeremy Clarkson. Available on ...