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Trailer: Married Life
Movie Tickets Online — Here’s the trailer from Married Life starring Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, Rachel McAdams, and Pierce Brosnan. Looks great and I’m a big fan of the cast, especially Clarkson and McAdams. This one will hit limited theatres on March 7. ...

Official Trailer of Rachel McAdams' 'Married Life' Released
Aceshowbiz.com - Entertainment News — Official Trailer of Rachel McAdams' 'Married Life' Released February 08, 2008 09:51:09 GMT by Staff Writer Sony Pictures Classics has released the trailer of romantic drama " Married Life ". The two-minutes video footage gives out idea what the film that was previewed at the Toronto Film Festival and the New York Film Festival back in September 2007 is about. Set in the 1940's, the film tells the story about Harry Allen, a middle age man who decided to kill his wife because he didn't want to humiliate her by divorcing her. The film sees Chris Cooper as Harry Allen and Patricia Clarkson as Pat Allen. The film that ...

A public service announcement from Burbanked to married men everywhere.
Burbanked — Attention, thoughtless husbands: your wife will NOT be impressed if you take her out to dinner and a movie on your wedding anniversary and the film you pick is this one:

Are you prepared to Unleash the power of Chad Vader?
Burbanked — This recent article on the Vanity Fair website about the creation of the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Xbox and PlayStation game has a lot of ground to cover, and makes as its primary focus the game’s revolutionary special effects and lifelike physics. But buried deep in the middle of the piece (scroll down on page 2 if you’re not into reading the whole thing) is a little tidbit of news that I found rather startling: The character of Darth Vader is fleshed out further, and…like the dramatic arc of the six-episode saga within which it’s nestled, The Force Unleashed is ultimately a tale of ...

There Will Be Blood: it got here the same way the coin did.
Burbanked — About two weeks ago , I was preparing to head out to the movies, and to help me choose my best bet for a presumptive award-winning movie, I asked for your help. You told me to go see There Will Be Blood , and I did exactly as you asked. Part of my disadvantage of seeing movies 1) far after their “limited release” dates and 2) far after most other film-loving people on the planet, is that by the time I’ve seen them, far greater writers with a stronger dedication to the cinema-reviewing crafts have already said about all there is to say. The bloguverse is well-filled with thought pieces on the amazing work of Daniel Day-Lewis as TWBB’s ...

So long, Defamer, and thanks for all the dish.
Burbanked — Defamer’s long-time editor Mark Lisanti is calling it quits , and I mention it because Defamer is one of the first blogs that I ever read with consistency and excitement. His style was always brisk, sarcastic, hilarious and insightful - everything I wanted to be when I decided, a couple years into reading his daily output, that I wanted to blog, too. There were others I admired, of course, but Mark’s work stands out as that of not just a keen observer of Hollywood culture, but of a true fan as well. His voice will be missed. I wish him the best and I send out my admiration and gratitude, specifically for the time he emailed ...

Friday Meals on Reels: The Hunt for Red October.
Burbanked — Do you know the drill yet? throughout this year we’ll be looking at screengrabs from the first appearance of food in classic and new movies. Food, movies, fun - what could be better? If you don’t like it, go defect to another country. In 1990’s The Hunt for Red October , we get a delightful screengrab of food at just after the 45-minute mark: If I didn’t know what movie this food-grab was from, I’d probably never guess it. Before reviewing it for today’s article, I’d always remembered that this scene in Red October , in which Ramius experiences dissent from his senior crew, began with a shot of Ramius himself eating. And for whatever ...

As it turns out, it’s not the years or the mileage. It’s the baggage.
Burbanked — I’m amazed that they’d burn a good third of this trailer rehashing the other movies. Astounding. To spend that kind of trailer real estate reminding your audience of your character’s “brand” is, I think, miserably desperate. Does Paramount have so little faith that 2008 movie audiences won’t know this character? I know it’s been a while since he’s been in the multiplex, but there’s got to be a more clever way to remind us of Indy’s iconic status than to reuse old footage. And what’s more, the old footage doesn’t lead up to anything. “He protected the power of the divine…he saved the cradle of civilization…he triumphed over armies of evil…” ...

Womb to Tomb - an appreciation of solidly Oscar-less work.
Burbanked — Some day, perhaps, Hollywood will devise an awards ceremony to honor all of those noble filmmakers who toil, day in and day out, turning in respectable and honored work that just. doesn’t. cut it. And I’m not talking about the journeymen of film like Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman who have, over time, transcended their everyman status to a new kind of Blockbuster Yet Not Really Leading Man quality that does, in fact, garner awards. No: I’m talking about lesser-knowns, the ones who could’ve, who might’ve, who - perhaps by now - should’ve. On this day, February 19th , Jeff Daniels ...

One of the more horrifying things I’ve ever seen.
Burbanked — 2.20.2008“‘The podium, the backdrop, the sense of creative achievement that hangs about him - it’s all so vivid and detailed that you’d swear it was real.’ Added Krajcsik, ‘When you see Michael thanking his talented cast and crew and raising the Oscar above his head, it’s going to be hard to believe it never, ever happened.’” Read the rest of this brilliant, tragic, cautionary tale over at ...

Go to the toy store, go.
Burbanked — The weird marketing vibe that I keep getting from the upcoming Wachowski brothers live-action imagining of Speed Racer continues to get weirder. And vibe-ier. Take a look at this Mach 5 toy recently featured at the great blog ...

Friday Meals on Reels: Super-Spectacular Coen Brothers Edition!
Burbanked — Hey, did you know that the Oscars are being given out this weekend? If you’ve been paying attention, you know how lame I’ve been in any Oscar-related reporting and/or speculation this year, even more so than previous years. But although Burbanked has never been an awards prognostication site, you should not misunderstand that to mean that I don’t care. In fact, Oscar night at the Burbanked house is a sacred, majestic occasion - probably the only one of its kind throughout the year - in which I command Michael Mann-like control over the traditional levels of noise, chaos and mayhem that usually accompanies my three little rough-and-tumble ...

The artlessness of DVD cover art.
Burbanked — I suppose if you’re going to try and market the 98th DVD release of a movie, you’d better come up with a new way to make people buy it, but this gimmicky Princess Bride 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition flip-over cover reaches previously unknown levels of ineffectual. Click on the thumbnail to see a blown-up view of the cover’s upside-down version - which features actor stand-ins that bear virtually no resemblance to Robin Wright and Cary Elwes. And there’s been a lot of blog-talk ...