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  • 18 Feb

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    US Indiana Jones Trailer Censored

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    Chances are that by now, you’ve seen the Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Trailer trailer at least once (if not more) but I bet most folks wouldn’t know that the US trailer, which most of us have seen, is censored. Yes, you read right: Censored.

    The discovery comes care of JBM at Cineblog and though it’s a pretty small difference, it is pretty obvious. Check it out:

    Indie Trailer Censor

    I can just imagine the conversation between the MPAA and Spielberg:

    MPAA: Steven, you have too many guns in that clip.
    Steven: Too many guns? What are you talking about?
    MPAA: For a General Audiences rating, you can only have one gun and it can’t be pointed directly at Indy.
    Steven: Fine. You helped me out on “Transformers” so I’ll take out the guns. But I’m keeping them in for the international cut of the trailer.
    MPAA: Fine. We don’t care. Just take them out of the trailer that our kids are going to see.

    Or something equally as lame. If you want to check out the difference for yourself, you can do so behind the cut.

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  • 05 Feb

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    D-Day on the Cheap

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    I‘ve talked about it enough but just in case, I love The Matrix. That movie hit my magical sweet spot of eye candy/story mix and over the years, I’ve become fascinated by the “how’d they do that?” factor. I don’t always make the effort to find out but sometimes, I see something that blows me away and this is one of those things.

    Dale has brought my attention to a short video clip of three graphic designers and how they managed to recreate D-Day on a tiny budget for an episode of the BBC history show Timewatch.

    These guys are obviously experts but it gives hope to productions with little/no budgets. With enough creativity and perseverance, you too can make Saving Private Ryan with a few friends and a few thousand dollars.

  • 31 Jan

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    Bollywood Matrix: Like the Original Only BETTER?

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    One of the strangest and most entertaining things I’ve seen so far in my life was Turkish Star Wars; it was so bad, it was nearly unwatchable but with good company and loads of heckling, it made for superbly entertaining material.

    Bollywood has been known to take Hollywood films and add their own Indian spice to make something new but I’ve yet to see a full Bollywood version of an already popular film but I’ve found the first real candidate. It’s called Awaara Paagal Deewana and I’m not quite sure what the exact storyline is like, the one over at IMDb doesn’t seem to be for the same movie, (that or I’m in for a very big surprise) but I’m not dis swayed, I must have it.

    Shout out to my Bollywood expert and buddy, Ramchandra who provided me with the ugly details. He’s issued a warning I refuse to accept so I’m officially on the search for this jewel. You can blame the whole think on this supremely fantastic clip.

  • 30 Jan

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    ANVIL: Rockers Turned Movie Stars

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    ANVILYou’ve seen them. I’ve seen them. Those made for tv biographies that set out to make movie stars, musicians and politicians seem like regular folk and which tend to outline how hard it was for them to overcome one problem or another to “make it”. I realize that everyone has faced some sort of adversity and I’m not knocking people that really had to work hard to get to where they are today but reading about ANVIL makes all of these folks on “Behind the Music” look like a bunch of pussies.

    ANVIL is a Canadian heavy metal band which was formed in 1978 by a bunch of guys trying to make it to the big time. The band has had a steady stream of record labels and releases since the beginning but try as they might, they’ve never been “discovered”. One would figure that after nearly 30 years of working day jobs and playing gigs, they’d give up but ANVIL. These guys are don’t believe in throwing in the towel and they’re still rocking hard.

    Anvil! The Story of Anvil, a documentary directed by former band roadie Sacha Gervasi, just premiered at Sundance to lots of love and positive buzz but sadly, apparently no distribution deals. It’s being toted as the real life This is Spinal Tap and I can sort of see why.

    As of yet, there isn’t a real trailer for the film but there’s a great Sundace video which includes Robert Redford talking to a very shocked Gervasi about the film, the ANVIL guys being superstars and some footage from the documentary which will hopefully get some sort of release.

    ANVIL Sundance Clip

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  • 29 Jan

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    A Nostalgia Trip to Restricted Territory

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    Grindhouse was fantastic for any number of great reasons but I must admit one of opening moments got the crowd right into the action and that clip was the Restricted Cougar that had once graced the screenings of many an 80′s classic. I can’t recall exactly what clip they used but I do recall seeing it and that, in and of itself, made me a bit nostalgic.

    I was paroozing about the web today and stumbled on the BC Film Classification Board’s website and clicking around in there, I found some interesting information. Turns out that the Restricted Cougar is a Canadian, and even better a British Columbia, icon.

    The symbol was first used in BC on August 1, 1960 and was copyrighted on July 6, 1965. Shortly after it first appeared, the BC Film Classification Office launched a series of animated information trailers that played before the films and the cougar entered wide circulation. The cougar was shelved in January of 1997 when the classification rules changed and the restricted rating was largely replaced by 18A.

    As much as I love a history lesson, the cool part is that the four short clips are all online and even available for download directly from the BCCPA website. Most folks will likely recall the most popular one titled “Bijou” but I’ve included all four for your viewing pleasure.

    Bijou

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  • 23 Jan

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    Sliders Guy Makes (Almost) Everyone Laugh

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    I‘m always on the lookout for great video content though I don’t often cruise the web searching it out. Most of the time, someone sends me this stuff as is the case with this one.

    A few days ago, the celebrity gawker in me sat in shocked disbelief watching this crazy ass video of Tom Cruise giving some sort of speech after receiving an award from The Church of Scientology. Now let me get something out there, I do actually like Tom Cruise the actor. Sure, he’s mostly in big fluffy movies but I really enjoy his fluff – from Cocktail all the way to overly sappy The Last Samurai, I dig the guy I do but Tom Cruise the man? Let’s just say he creeps me out.

    But back to the Scientology talk. The folks over at Funny or Die have posted one of the funniest parodies I’ve seen of late. It stars Jerry O’Connell, the dude from “Sliders” (remember that great show?) and wow, it’s both funny and scary – but mostly funny. Oh god. The laugh…

    Enjoy.

  • 22 Jan

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    J.J. Abrams: Who IS This Guy?

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    Who Is J.J. Abrams?So I’ve seen Cloverfield (our review) and though J. J. Abrams didn’t direct it he may as well have since his name is plastered all over the film and I have to admit, I’m starting to get a little excited about Star Trek. Then there’s “Lost”, a show that gets loads of love but which I have yet to see. What really got me thinking was a recent “Vs.” segment on the Film Junk Podcast in which the guys pitted Abrams against Whedon. I know Whedon’s work but what do I know about Abrams? Well, not very much.

    Then I had a thought: a few weeks ago Dale sent me a link to a speech Abrams did at TED.

    TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.

    I’d started the video a few times already but when I saw the 18 minute running time, I always stopped it because there was something more important to do but I finally sat down and watched it today and I have to say that though it didn’t really tell me anything new, it did give me a better sense of Abrams, his work and his philosophy. It’s a very, very interesting talk in which he discusses how he came up with “Lost”, the idea for Cloverfield and special effects in general. It’s a great talk that I highly recommend watching.

    On a side note, the “Lost” clip that he shows the audience is awesome. I actually covered my mouth in shock at the climax and that clip alone is enough to sell me – I NEED to see this show.

  • 13 Jan

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    Awards Ceremonies: Gripes and Back Slapping

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    Viggo want an OscarAs we all know by now, due to the writers strike, the Golden Globes have been all but completely called off – no ceremony, barely a press conference; likely just an online write-up of who the winners would’ve been. No matter what your feelings on The Globes might be, you have to admit that this is a pretty big deal to the Hollywood community. Over $5 million in licensing fees will be lost on GG night because of the strike/boycott; money that normally would go to philanthropic ventures like supporting film schools. This has many of us wondering if there will even be an Oscars show this year. If not, it could cost the entertiainment industry about $100 million. And if there is a show, what will it be like? Will the stars show up? Will there be picketers? Will the show be much shorter (as it should be)? How will this shape future Oscar ceremonies? Lots of questions abound. While we’ll just have to wait and see on how these questions pan out and no predictions will be made here, I’ve come up with a couple of top 5 lists and general complaints and praises about the award shows in general (most specifically, The Golden Globes and The Academy Awards).

    Let’s start with my general feelings about how often the awards’ shows get it right and why they do or don’t.

    “Getting it right” is hard to quanitfy as all film, as we know, is subjective… or is it? While you’ll never satisfy everyone with your top picks, sometimes there’s just a general consensus as to who should win; a consensus by critics, the online community and film goers in general. Yet sometimes upsets do happen. Crash. Why might this be? Who voted for this and how did they come to their conclusions to vote for who they did?

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  • 09 Jan

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    Savage Grace: Julianne Moore Brings It

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    Savage Grace Movie StillThis short clip is bound to make a few readers and contributors giddy with excitement; I know it made want to see this NOW.

    It comes from one of the films in which Moore stared last year, Savage Grace, a dramatization of the Barbara Daly Baekeland murder case, which took place in the early 70′s and which saw Baekeland, a wealthy sociality, murdered by her son in a London flat. It sounds like pretty grizzly stuff and there are loads more details in the Wiki entry for the “happening”.

    The film is based on a book by Natalie Robins and is directed by Tom Kalin, who was apparently considered to co-direct Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and frankly, after seeing this scene, I say bring it on!

    The clip is brimming with very colorful language so you may want to turn down the speakers at the office. According to a review over at Not Coming (I just skimmed it for spoilers and it’s pretty clean), this is Moore’s first scene in the film, which comes at the half way mark, and it’s a knock out.

    Savage Grace will play at Sundance later this month and will open in limited release on May 28th.

  • 09 Jan

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    Neil Gaiman’s Coraline Sneak Peek

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    Coraline LogoIt seems a bit strange that with his throngs of adoring fans and long list of writing credits, Neil Gaiman didn’t really break into the movie industry until this past year when, seemingly out of the blue, he popped up everywhere, due in part with his involvement in the massively underwhelming Beowulf and the fun Stardust. Personally, I really enjoyed MirrorMask, a 2005 film from a Gaiman script, which had animation unlike anything I’d seen before (or since) and though it does suffer from story flaws, it’s still well worth viewing.

    Now Gaiman is a hot comodity in Hollywood and the next of his stories to be adapted is Coraline, based on his multiple award winning (a Nebula, Hugo and Bram Stoker Award) short children’s novel of the same title about a young bored girl who discovers that the bricked-up wall behind a door in her flat leads to another world.

    The animated film is being directed by Henry Selick, at Laika Entertainment, a relatively new production company. Selick is best known for previously directing the seriously messed up Monkeybone, and working on both James and the Giant Peach and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Coraline stars the voice talents of Dakota Fanning, Ian McShane and Teri Hatcher.

    The film is supposed to open at some point later this year and though there hasn’t been an official trailer, a short clip from the movie has turned up online and rather unsurprisingly looking back at Selick’s work, and a clip from his previous short film Moongirl, this has a Burtonesque aesthetic.

    Now I’ll have to dig up the book. With that many awards it’s bound to be a good read.

  • 08 Jan

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    Disney Returns to Form And No One Notices

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    How to Hook Up Your Home Theater Goofy ShortOver the holiday season, I took my mom to see the most recent kiddie fodder National Treasure: Book of Secrets. She would have preferred Atonement but with hubby tagging along, it was much harder to sell the romance so we stuck it through the newest Cage debacle. Not a horrendously bad film but the first was indeed better.

    The millions that did take the kids to this harmless film were in for a treat: the re-birth of Disney’s classic 2D short film. Goofy made a triumphant return with “How to Hook Up Your Home Theater”, a fun short which, as the title implies, sees Goofy hooking up his new home theater system.

    A little earlier, I was reading David Bordwell‘s take on National Treasure 2 and noticed that he had a link to a great interview with Disney animators Andreas Deja and Mark Henn in which they discuss the rebirth of Disney’s Shorts program.

    A little more research has also uncovered a short, very short, clip from the Goofy comeback which you can check out here care of Rick over at Rick’s Flicks Picks.

    Goofy was never my favorite of the Disney roster of characters but I’m happy to see that Disney is returning to its roots and the type of films and animation that made them the successful company they are today. John Lasseter’s move into the head cheese role is starting to show positive signs. I look forward to seeing what else is coming our way.

  • 28 Dec

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    Siskel/Ebert/Roeper video archive

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    This is pretty old news that I posted about quite some time ago, but I wanted to make sure that everyone knows about it because it just provided hours of enjoyment for me over the last few days. The Siskel/Ebert/Roeper video archive…

    Siskel and Ebert, at one time, were THE reviewers that everyone paid attention to. The whole “thumbs up, thumbs down” thing became stuff of legend and is on countless movie posters and video boxes.

    Everyone thought they were crazy back in the day for saving miles of footage of their TV show well before the home video age. Well not anymore. Now it is all online and archived for all to see. And the best part? It is completely free. Just head over to atthemoviestv.com to catch all their reviews from the early days and even including all the newer episodes with Richard Roeper (a critic I agree with quite often).

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    You can search the database by title, director or actor. It’s bloody amazing. Hours of fun right online and totally free. So much for the Top 100 movies I was going to catch up on, now I have over 20 years of Siskel and Ebert to catch up on.

    Unfortunately, it looks like most of the tapes pre-1985 were lost or destroyed to save space. but Buena Vista preserved everything from 1985 on. On the site, there’s a special introduction from Rober Ebert which explains the details…

    “Gene and I knew those old shows would be worth saving, but for a long time nobody agreed with us. In the years before home video, it seemed like a waste of expensive video tape to preserve hundreds of episodes of our earlier incarnations on “Opening Soon at a Theater Near You,” “Sneak Previews” or “At the Movies.” After all, the movies we were reviewing weren’t going to be opening again, and who’d want to watch a show of old movie reviews? Right?” asks Ebert. “all of that changed, and the current era of DVDs and Blockbuster and Netflix and streaming online content began to unfold. Today, there would be an audience for the original Siskel & Ebert reviews of, say, “Batman” or “Jurassic Park,” or Ebert & Roeper trading opinions on “Crash” or “Brokeback Mountain,” or Martin Scorsese and I picking the best film of he 1990s.”

         A big thanks to /film for pointing this out! Now, I gotta go watch their review of Back to the Future Part II

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