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Details: Created: 09 August 2011; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Spy Kids 4 While a valid argument can be made that Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids franchise went south at about the time the story's focus pointed away from the people and towards the mechanical gadgets (sometime after 2 and before the 3D debacle), there's no denying that ...

Details: Created: 08 August 2011; Written by Frank Wilkins

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In Time Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, and Olivia Wilde star in Andrew Niccol's In Time, a sci-fi thriller that is unfairly being called a Logan's Run rip-off. While there are a couple of remote similarities in that both films deal with early death scenarios as a means of ...

Details: Created: 07 August 2011; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Fred M. Andrews's Creature It has been stalking the backwoods of the Louisiana swamps for years, so it's high time that Fred M. Andrews' Creature sets its moss-tinged sights on theaters around the country. The creature feature that some may know by its previous monikers ...

Details: Created: 01 August 2011; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Battleship movie When we first heard last year that the classic Milton Bradley board game Battleship was being made into a movie (and that Liam Neeson was being cast) we couldn't help but think what a stupid idea it was. Just another money ...

Details: Created: 01 August 2011; Written by Frank Wilkins

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The Tuskegee airmen get another chance to bring their heroics to the big screen, this time in the Lucasfilm produced WWII drama, Red Tails which is a dramatic retelling of the story of the first African-American fighter pilots ...

Details: Created: 18 July 2011; Written by Frank Wilkins

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The Dark Knight Rises teaser trailer Warner Bros. was very busy over the weekend. In addition to the record-breaking release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 which raked in an estimated $168 million, the studio also debuted the first teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan's ...

Details: Created: 14 July 2011; Written by Frank Wilkins

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The Thing - Movie Trailer We've gone on and on for years here about the big collective give-up that's plagued Hollywood for years in which the industry is all too eager to settle for the quick, easy buck to be made on sequels, prequels, remakes...

Details: Created: 08 July 2011; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Final Destination 5 Full Trailer A poster and teaser trailer for Steven Quale's Final Destination 5 were released back in May. While the trailer did nothing to make us think the franchise is headed anywhere other than where it has already been, we did think the poster showed some ...

Details: Created: 07 July 2011; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher The early Oscar buzz most certainly began within minutes of the announcement last year that Meryl Streep would depict conservative British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady. And with the first photos of Streep in ...

Details: Created: 06 July 2011; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Conan the Barbarian UK International Trailer Film geeks had a good laugh when the uninspired teaser trailer for Marcus Nispel's remake of Conan the Barbarian hit the web back in March that featured way too much cheesy dialogue, an over-the-top trailer voice-over guy and an uninspired montage...