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One of my all time favorite movies is the Zucker-Abrams-Zucker disaster spoof Airplane!. If you by chance haven't seen the film, there's no real way to describe the film's offbeat, random, out-of-left field sense of humor. It's something you'll just have to experience for yourself.I first saw the movie sometime in the early 1980s, at my friend's house on HBO. It was a comic revelation to us and

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It's been a question that seems to have been on Disney fans' lips since the first DVD players rolled off the assembly lines and into retail outlets over 10 years ago- “When is Disney going to release Song Of The South on DVD?”Well, it looks like they just might have an answer soon enough.Over at the eponymous JimHillMedia.com, Jim Hill addresses just such a possibility in his weekly “Why For?”

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The folks over at DoubleViking.com, a sort of on-line variation of magazines like Maxim, have published an article announcing something that I've known for the past 23 years-Real Men Love The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!To be sure, some of the reasons the writer gives are a bit tongue in cheek. But he is correct in stating "If you haven’t watched it, then you are

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With all the hype surrounding the live action adaptation of the popular Transformers 1980s cartoon sure to make the film a hit at least over its opening weekend, it’s not surprising that we’re starting to hear rumblings and announcements for similar big-budget projects.G. I. JoeCinematical is reporting that, after years of wallowing in development hell, Paramount is putting their adaptation of

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Since its January premier at the Slamdance Film Festival, the documentary The King Of Kong and its inside look at competitive video gaming and one man's quest to break the world's record for classic Donkey Kong arcade game has been generating positive reviews as it continued across the spring festival circuit in advance of its August 17 limimted theatrical release. (My own review can be found

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I wasn’t even sure I wanted to write about the 30th anniversary of the release of Star Wars for today. There has already been enough ink spilt and bandwidth burnt about the franchise recently that I don’t think there’s much, if anything, I can add. Still…I was eight years old the summer of 1977 when Star Wars came out. I still remember how my friend Todd, who was the first among us to see the

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FameAlthough it hasn’t been announced officially, Film Jerk reported on Friday that Andy Fickman has been selected to helm MGM’s remake of Fame, which we previously reported about here. As Fickman has already directed such family friendly films as the Amanda Bynes comedy She’s The Man and the Disney football flick The Game Plan with Dwayne Johnson, it gives one pause to wonder if the studio is

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OK, now that everyone's seen Spider-Man 3, there's plenty of new films opening this weekend at your local cinema.28 Weeks Later Delta Farce The Ex Gerogia Rule

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AintItCoolNews has an interesting news report/editorial on some recent changes that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have made to the rules regarding the eligibility of documentary films for possible Academy Award consideration.Among the new rules include stipulations that feature-length documentaries must now screen for at least seven days in 14 markets across ten states as well

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Movies that look back to the 1980s or glimpse the future are just a portion of what's in store for this weekend at your local cinema.Kickin' It Old SkoolNextThe CondemnedJindabyne

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I've already talked about my love for the 1980 Flash Gordon.Well, earlier today, Universal has announced that a new DVD release of the movie will be hitting store shelves on August 7. Titled "Saviour Of The Universe Edition" (though I have no idea why they went with the British spelling), no details have been announced as to what this edition will contain. We do, however, know that the cover will

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Thrillers, both comedic and dramatic, head up this week's releases.Hot Fuzz Fracture Vacancy Stephanie Daley The Tripper

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Lot’s of remakes being announced by the studios over the last week or so. Here’s a rundown of what cinematic new retreads are coming our way.FameMGM has announced that they will be revisiting the New York Academy of Performing Arts with a remake of Alan Parker’s 1980 musical Fame. Set at the real world school for young entertainment industry hopefuls, the original film starred Irene Cara and

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Thrillers, historical action-adventure, personal voyages of discovery and a talking meatball are your new choices at the local cineplex this weekend. Or you could go see Grindhouse.DisturbiaPathfinderYear Of The DogPerfect StrangerAqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters

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Regular updates have slowed down a bit as I have been at the Philadelphia Film Festival for the past week. Look for coverage with numerous film reviews in the next few days.

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While discussing his upcoming film Hostel II with journalists at the New York ComicCon this past February, director Eli Roth talked a bit about the faux-trailer he created for Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriquez’s up coming celebration of 1970s exploitation double features- Grindhouse.“So there was this slasher movie that my friend Jeff and I had been dreaming about,” Roth explains. “Growing

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Hollywood has always been about ballyhoo, sometimes hyping its films through outlandish promotions designed to catch a moviegoers imagination enough to get them down to the local cinema and placing their cash into the boxoffice attendant's hands. (And it still is going on today, as evidenced by New York City's upcoming Spider-Man Week, which coincides with the release of the next installment of

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Director Rachel Talalay's 1995 adaptation of the popular British comic book Tank Girl may have been raked over by critics and generally ignored by audiences during its brief theatrical run, it has managed to gather a small cult following.* Unfortunately, that following isn't enough to ensure that studio MGM would want to put the time, money and effort towards a special edition DVD release that

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Here's a look at some of the films opening this weekend-Blades Of Glory Lookout After The Wedding

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Entertainment Weekly is reporting that while director Richard Donner never really had a solid script for a sequel to his 1985 film The Goonies, he may be revisiting the story of a group of kids who go on an adventure to find fabled pirate gold to save their land developer-imperiled neighborhood in another form- as a musical! The magazine’s website is reporting that Donner states that there is an

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Pre-Saturday Night Live, the predominate comic voice in America in the 1970s was the National Lampoon magazine. It should come as no surprise that several of those responsible for the Lampoons's early success - Michael O'Donoghue, John Belushi, Chevy Chase - would be the ones who would chart SNL's early fortunes. But while some of its leading writers were striking out on their own to Not

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It’s always important for a movie to open with a scene that grips its audience, pulling them into its celluloid world for the rest of its runtime.Although not meant for general consumption, screenplays need to do the same job to whomever is reading them. A junior executive wading through dozens of scripts, hoping to find the next big blockbuster, doesn’t have time to plow through all 100-plus

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Lots of new films opening this weekend. Here's what you have to choose from-The Hill Have Eyes II The Last Mimsy Pride Reign Over Me Shooter TMNT

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We still have a little over two weeks until Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse, but that doesn't mean we still can't get some glimpses of what's in store for us.Thanks to the folks over at Yahoo, you can get to know "The Girls And Guys Of Grindhouse," courtesy of a short video hosted by Tarantino and Rodriguez. Since Yahoo doesn't offer video embedding (Get with it guys!) you'll

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Across The Universe, the 1960s set musical utilizing the songs of the Beatles, is at the center of yet the latest round in the ongoing Hollywood struggle between art and commerce.Specifically, director Julie Taymor is upset that Revolution studio chief Joe Roth has taken the film, re-edited it without her knowledge and test-screened the result last week. In a report in yesterday’s New York Times,

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