Month: May 2010

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[In Defense Of] Robin Hood

Robin Hood's biggest problem is its title. It shouldn't have been called Robin Hood, or Nottingham or anything of the sort. Because, in fairness to the slew...
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[Review] MacGruber

Expanding two minute skits into a full 90 minute feature is no easy task. So far, there's been three successful translations for SNL film: The Blues Brothers, Wayne's World, and the somewhat underrated Wayne's World 2. No, A Night at the Roxbury didn't quite make the cut. MacGruber, on the other hand, doe...
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‘Bangkok Dangerous’ Writer to Pen ‘MacGyver’

MacGruber may be hitting theaters but the bases for the parody may seem to be having a film of its own. Jason Richman who did Bangkok Dangerous, Swing Vote, and Bad Company was hired by Warner Bros./New Line to write the script for the bigscreen adaptation....
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Romola Garai Set For ‘One Day’

Young British actress Romola Garai is set to star in Lone Scherfig's One Day, produced by Focus Features. Day tells the story of two friends (Anne Hatha...
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Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Nike World Cup Commercial

This is hands down one of the best commercials I've ever seen. Although Alejandro González Iñárritu is known for his slow pace in films like Babel and 21 Grams, even most recently with the Cannes premiere Biutiful, he throws that out the window for this kinetic world cup commercial, Write Your Future. ...