A Blog Journal on Movies

Climate Changing Sci-Fi

2006-10-29T12:19:00.001-08:00

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"How global warming is turning a genre once filled with pipe dreams into a pipeline of ideas."

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Hostel Part 2 Teaser in HDTV DIVX

2006-10-28T14:05:00.001-07:00

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"If you hate the movie, you'll at least appreciate the fact that there is 53mb of bloat between the Quicktime version of this clip and the Divx version, with IMO an undetectable quality difference. If you love Hostel, you'll like this clip... but get counseling."

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Free full-length horror films on BitTorrent.com

2006-10-28T06:21:00.001-07:00

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"In the mood for some Halloween horror? If so, you're in luck, because BitTorrent.com has put together some of the greatest cult & horror movies and is offering them for free download."

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New Eragon Trailer Hits!

2006-10-25T18:48:00.000-07:00

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"20th Century Fox has premiered the new Eragon trailer at Apple in high-quality QuickTime formats! The trailer gives you a better look at the special effects in the film."

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YouTube version of 'Saw 3' announcement by Lion's Gate

2006-10-25T17:48:00.001-07:00

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"Lion's Gate has done this on MySpace as well"

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Movie audiences prefer sequels with names to those with numbered titles

2006-10-23T05:03:00.001-07:00

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"Kind of humorous and intersting. "In one study, subjects were shown a made-up movie title - "Daredevil 2? or ?Daredevil: Taking It to the Streets? - and asked to read a plot summary. Those who saw the second title spent more time reading the summary, remembered more, and rated the hypothetical movie more highly.""

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Worst 3D Animated Movie Characters Ever

2006-10-21T10:48:00.001-07:00

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"Some really awful CG characters we've seen in movies. Not sure I'd agree with number 1."

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SAW III - Hello America You Wanna Play a Game (Preview Clip)

2006-10-15T11:47:00.001-07:00

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"Jigsaw has disappeared; and with his new apprentice Amanda--the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police--he has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Dr. Lynn Denlon is unaware that she is about to become the latest pawn on his vicious"

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Transformers - Bumblebee's Gun

2006-10-15T09:48:00.001-07:00

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""This appears to be another concept art, so here it is, I've enlarged it slightly for this wallpaper's purpose and applied a colour effect to the entire thing to mask the enlarging process.""

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The Snuff Film : The Making of an Urban Legend

2006-10-15T08:47:00.001-07:00

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"One of the most enduring, and little-recognized, urban legends about cinema is the "snuff film," in which actresses are supposedly actually killed onscreen. Over the course of nearly a quarter century, the snuff film has transformed from grade-Z slasher film to hoax to anti-pornographers' straw man to urban legend, and shows no sign of slowing down"

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Cobain's Documentary

2006-10-14T12:03:00.000-07:00

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""Legendary musician and father of grunge Kurt Cobain himself provides the narration in AJ Schnack's KURT COBAIN ABOUT A SON (USA, world premiere), which intimately traces the rock star's life from his hometown of Aberdeen to his famed days with Nirvana in Seattle." Here is the movie's trailer."

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Free Full Length Movies On Bolt.com

2006-10-14T02:48:00.000-07:00

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"Includes: Clerks 2, Dazed and Confused, Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Fearless, Ghost In The Shell, Harold and Kumar, Labyrinth, The Lost Boys, Miami Vice, Pirates of the Caribbean 2, Scanner Darkly, Sin City, Superman Returns, V for Vendetta, X-Men 3, and more."

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Weather records question the truth behind the Amityville Horror

2006-10-08T15:18:00.000-07:00

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"Thirty years ago, rumors of ghosts and demons swirled out of a small town on Long Island, New York. In 1975, George and Kathy Lutz and their three children moved into a three-story home in the town of Amityville. The house had a bleak history that included the death of six residents the previous year at the hands of convicted murderer Ronald DeFeo"

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Film Version of Good Omens Will Cost One Groat

2006-10-06T14:46:00.001-07:00

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"Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens is closer to being made into a film by ubergeek director Terry Gilliam . . . if the director can track down a coin that hasn't been minted since the 1780s called a groat."

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Martin Scorsese's Best Movies

2006-10-06T12:36:00.001-07:00

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"Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian-American identity, Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption,machismo and the violence in American society. Scorsese is widely considered one of the most significant and influential of post-war American film makers"

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Filmaker Wants Americans To Wake Up Before It Is Too Late

2006-10-05T23:03:00.000-07:00

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"In the new film America: Freedom to Fascism, Hollywood producer/director Aaron Russo (The Rose, Trading Places) calls on all Americans to put partisan politics aside to stop the erosion of civil liberties and the destruction of the Constitution."

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In This Movie, the Audience Picks the Scene

2006-10-02T07:03:00.001-07:00

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""As strange as this may sound, a small independent film made for computer viewing aspires to blend serious cinematic storytelling with the popular shuffle feature in iPods and other music players. The film, ?The Onyx Project,? is meant to be an experiment in nonlinear storytelling for the digital age.""

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A Swarm of Angels: P2P Powered Film Model

2006-09-27T05:19:00.001-07:00

A Swarm of Angels is a project that aims to create the first community driven film. The film will be written, funded and distributed over the Internet - a break from the traditional movie business model. The genre will be thriller based with some soft sci-fi elements and will be released under a Creative Commons license.

You can read more about it here.

Hi-Res Harry Potter 5 Photos!

2006-09-26T00:35:00.001-07:00

Warner Bros. Pictures has provided ComingSoon.net with the five first photos from the highly-anticipated Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, opening in theaters and IMAX on July 13.

You can read more about it here.

Peter Jackson to make Hobbit film - split into two parts

2006-09-23T12:35:00.000-07:00

Jackson has indeed started thinking about what he might do with The Hobbit. He's especially intrigued by the idea of making two films and inventing new material to fill in gaps in the story, since the plot ? about how Bilbo befriends Gandalf, falls afoul of the miserable creature Gollum, and comes into possession of that pesky ring.

You can read more about it here.