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This sort of thing has passed into film-geek legend at this point, but there's always been this whole list of "dream projects"...

Holy F**K! "Red Tails" is actually coming out!

It's not so good. The Escapist : Escape to the Movies : Cowboys and Aliens "Intermission" reviews the teasers for Spider-Ma...

Escape to the Movies: "Cowboys & Aliens"

COWBOYS AND ALIENS (Dir. Jon Favreau, 2011) When I first heard about the summer movie concept of fuckin' James Bond and Indiana Jones (...

COWBOYS AND ALIENS: The Film Babble Blog Review

CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE (Dirs. Glenn Ficcara & John Requa, 2011) At the beginning of this ensemble rom com, after an opening montage of the...

CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE: The Film Babble Blog Review

Source: Entertainment Weekly Y'know what's great about reporting on Robert Rodriguez movies? If you're seeing SOMETHING visual f...

Rodriguez remakes "Fire & Ice"

The big misconcpetion that most of the public has right now about every movie needing to be "based on" something, even old toys an...

"Battleship"

It's one part more than Part II. The Escapist : The Big Picture : Hollywood History 101: Part 3

Big Picture: "Hollywood History 101 - Part III"

I saw this film last April at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham and really love it. I saw it again this weekend at the Colo...

PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Film Babble Blog Review

Hat-tip to Devin It's kind of a shame that the studios have woken up to the notion that being a big-hit at Comic-Con doesn't mean it...

"Knights of Badassdom"

Marvel's people at SDCC have been doling out "concept" (read: paintings, not photographs) character-posters of the various fil...

These Are Your "AVENGERS"

FYI, a piece about certain revelations about Anders Behring Breivik - the alleged perpetator of the horrific bombing/shooting in Oslo, Norwa...

The Oslo Massacre

I once again join the Post-Movie Podcast to talk about "The First Avenger." MAJOR SPOILER WARNING is in effect, but give it a li...

Post-Movie Podcast "Captain America" (UPDATED!)

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER   (Dir. Joe Johnston, 2011) Although I am not a comic book guy, I have more and more been developing an a...

CAPTAIN AMERICA: The Film Babble Blog Review

It's fantastic, go see it. Seriously, go - a superhero movie this good and this different "underperforming" would be a disa...

Escape to the Movies: "Captain America"

A Twitter pal linked me to this video of the new "Beavis & Butthead" relaunch from MTV. Dunno where it came from in the first ...

They Have Risen

Here's the page on The Other Blog (updating w/details later)! Here's the direct-link to ScrewAttack!

Game OverThinker Episode 54 is LIVE!

I'm generally obliged not to give details as to what I thought of movies I've seen before they're officially released; but you m...

Batman Who?

I like how what was supposed to be a quick comment by moi on another bl og - but got longer - about the "stop pre-judging!!!!!" r...

"The Amazing Spider-Man" take two

...kinda blows. Watch it after the jump. Before that, though, some good news: Jeff Wells - who's sort of become the "leader" o...

"The Amazing Spider-Man" trailer...

I have it on good authority that GAME OVERTHINKER: EPISODE 54 is coming this Thursday at 11pm EST exclusively on ScrewAttack.com. In this t...

Game OverThinker Episode 54 COMING SOON!

It goes on... The Escapist : The Big Picture : Hollywood History 101: Part 2

Big Picture: "Hollywood History 101 - Part II"

Here's the good-quality version of the "Dark Knight Rises" trailer, with your first tiny glimpses of Bane, flashbacks to ...

DKR Teaser (and about "Avengers")

I think I've mentioned this around a few times, but just in case: I'll be hobnobbing with game designers and journalists as the IGDA...

Weekend Catch-Up

WINNIE THE POOH (Dirs. Stephen J. Anderson & Don Hall, 2011) The good news up front: the new WINNIE THE POOH isn't an all CGI-ed mo...

Old School Pooh

Movie good. Intermission sez it's an Oscar contender - like it or not. The Escapist : Escape to the Movies : Harry Potter and the Dea...

Escape to the Movies: "Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows - Part II"

What does a whimsical children's film from Martin Scorsese look like? Like this, apparently: Original title "Hugo Cabret," inc...

Hugo

"The Thing" has the mother of all solutions to the "people are sick of remakes" problem: John Carpenter's original ...

"The Thing" remake trailer

Yes, I've seen the (probably) legit "Dark Knight Rises" teaser that's supposed to start showing up in front of "Harry...

About the "Dark Knight Rises" Teaser

iFanboy has scans up (now posted in hi-res elsewhere) from Entertainment Weekly's "Amazing Spider-Man" cover story. The piec...

EW previews the new Spider-Man

I wonder if scifi/fantasy fans today appreciate just how ancient Edgar Rice Burroughs "Mars" books are. This is on of the "...

John Carter Trailer

OLD FACT: A Raimi/Tapert/Campbell produced  "Evil Dead" remake is happening. NEW FACT: Crazy-talented newcomer Fede Alvarez is...

Quick! Everyone Get Obnoxiously Pissy About Diablo Cody Writing The "Evil Dead" Remake!

Via Gawker A Florida chapter of scientifically-illiterate, hyperreligious paranoid xenophobes The Citrus County Tea Party Patriots have unc...

Tea Party Now Believes Manatees To Be Agents of Sinister United Nations Coup

I'm generally reluctant to post stuff from MSNBC (or anyone else's) opinion programs because it always degenerates into mutual bile-...

Scary Stuff

Somewhere between the post-production of "Spider-Man 2" and the clusterfuck of shenanigans surrounding "Spider-Man 4;" s...

Raimi-Approved "Evil Dead" Remake FINALLY Happening?

BEGINNERS (Dir. Mike Mills, 2011) Mills' second feature posits itself as a more poignant piece than his dorky debut THUMBSUCKER (2007)....

BEGINNERS: The Film Babble Blog Review

Christopher Nolan's "Batman" movie posters continue their "stuff making the batman-logo" motif. The first teaser-tra...

This Is Your "Dark Knight Rises" Teaser Poster

Another two-parter. The Escapist : The Big Picture : Hollywood History 101: Part 1

Big Picture: "History of Hollywood 101 - Part I"

People who are bigger fans of Tintin (the franchise really doesn't "exist" here in the States for the most part, though a cart...

New Tintin trailer

It's the weekend! Here's some of the stuff you may have missed on the MovieBob Blogs this week! THE BIG PICTURE: "TURTLE MAKI...

NEW FEATURE! Weekend Catch-Up

HORRIBLE BOSSES (Dir. Seth Gordon, 2011) As the most recent in a spate of crude R-Rated comedies, HORRIBLE BOSSES is just funny enough to r...

HORRIBLE BOSSES: The Film Babble Blog Review

UK's Daily Mail - currently basking in the glow of being a British tabloid NOT shuttered by a horrific phone-hacking scandal - reports t...

Here we go again...

It's as good as it sounds. "Intermission" is about movie news, once more... The Escapist : Escape to the Movies : Hobo With ...

Escape to the Movies: "Hobo With A Shotgun"

HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN (Dir. Jason Eisener, 2010) This is the second, and with hope the last, movie to be spun off of Quentin Tarantino and Ro...

Blu Ray Review: HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN

Awhile back I did an interview with Charles Huang of The Examiner, the text of which is now online for everyone to bask in. ENJOY!

Examiner Interview

...over on The Other Blog. Enjoy!

New OverThinker episode debuts...

About jobs, economy, etc. As usual, after the jump for the non-politically-inclined.

American Bob: "Jobbed"

As promised, a look at the infamous Ninja Turtles Anime... The Escapist : The Big Picture : Turtle Maki

Big Picture: "Turtle Maki"

FYI, "Game OverThinker" Episode 53 will debut on ScrewAttack.com at 11pm EST on Wednesday night. For those who'd like an ear...

Game OverThinker Episode 53 coming soon