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Archive for October, 2011

Blistering Barnacles! Tintin is looking more awesome by the second.


I have said openly in the past that I don’t know what to think about this Tintin movie. These big studio execs are taking my beloved Tintin and possibly destroying everything my childhood stood for. This fear resulted solely from the first Tintin trailer that was shown earlier this year. Just today, however, a new trailer has come out of nowhere that is changing my old, curmudgeony mind. Set your calendar for Dec. 21.

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Polish movie posters up for interpretation


Are you tired of lame American film posters? You know, the ones that just have the romantic couple back to back in a fun way as though they weren’t going to get together, or the ones that have the lead actor and he’s holding a gun to let you know it’s going to be all actiony? Basically what I am saying is that American films generally don’t try too hard on the poster side of things. In Poland, however, until about 1989 it was apparently more common to see artists take a stab at poster creation. The end results are very interesting.

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50/50: A film about cancer


Cancer. The term doesn’t really bring up a ton of happy thoughts in the minds of the populace. It’s not something that will ever come at a good time because there simply is no good time for it. Luckily for us, the film-goers, 50/50 centers on the topic in a way that’s both poignant and humorous at the same time.

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Apple Trailers get an app


Are you tired of having to go to some stupid computer to check out the latest film trailers? Do you have an iPhone or some other iDevice? Well, today you are in luck, lazy-bones, because Apple has an app for that, as they say. Entitled iTunes Movie Trailers, this little app could possibly give other film apps a run for their money.

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Netflix changes positions once again, John Kerry nods in approval [flip-floppin]


I really hope this is the last time we have to write about this damn Netflix saga (although it was rather fun to complain a bit, but that’s beside the point), but it turns out that that the overwhelming negative opinion of splitting Netflix in to two separate entities has made the company sit back and say, “Yeah, that was kind of a dumb idea for our customers.”

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