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You may have seen the five worst films of 2009, but I did my best to avoid them. Instead, at year’s end, I’d rather recap my five biggest disappointments - movies that promised the world and delivered a fraction of their potential.  To me, that’s far more upsetting than a bad mo...

On New Year’s Eve, before the clock struck midnight, director Lee Unkrich tweeted, “Enjoying the last day I can say ‘Toy Story 3′ doesn’t come out next year’”.  Indeed we have entered 2010, the year of the latest update in the Toy Story franchise, and tod...

I’ve really enjoyed the lists I’ve posted this week and I hope you have too.  I keep notes year-round on everything I feel is worth noting about particular movies so I don’t forget and I can compile it into what (hopefully) makes or an informative read.  However, this list I&#82...

In the age of Twitter, Facebook and instant info, it’s very rare for me to be surprised by a film in development.  I think the last movie that come out of nowhere was Cloverfield.  So when I was emailed a link to the first footage from a live action Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers) mo...

“It’s a man on a mission with something that everybody wants,” Allen Hughes said of the story for The Book of Eli, his forthcoming action film starring Denzel Washington. “It’s pretty simple. One man is trying to get something somewhere.”In late March of 2009, ...

A rough year, you say? Maybe for your 401(k). Hollywood raked it in, enjoying record box office numbers, while the indie and foreign lineup (though spread between fewer companies perhaps) yielded an unprecedented number of treasures. To be honest, I can’t remember the last time I had such a...

The position of director has long been dominated by heterosexual, Caucasian males in Hollywood. For evidence of this, one need only look at the Academy Award for Best Director nominations over first 81 years of the award’s existence. Only three times have female directors received nominatio...

If you’re a fan of movie related toys/figures, you might enjoy the latest offering from Hot Toys out of Hong Kong.  That’s because they recently announced a new Arnold Schwarzenegger 12″ figure from Terminator 2.  As you can see from the slice above, it really looks like him.  F...

The joy of list-making continues today as I’m running down who I thought gave the best performances of the year plus what I thought were the best quotes and kills of 2009.  Please keep in mind that regarding the performances, I haven’t seen a few key films that could have very well ch...

Six months ago or so, Collider enjoyed the rare opportunity to visit the set of The Book of Eli, Allen and Albert Hughes’ postapocalyptic thriller about a laconic hero (Denzel Washington) who battles a shrewd but ruthless mercenary (Gary Oldman) and picks up a plucky barkeep (played by Mila...

2009 was another big year for movies thanks to, in varying degrees, the recession, 3D ticket prices and Taylor Lautner’s abs. For funsies we have compiled a fairly trivial movie calendar for the year that was. Here you will find all the big events that, for whatever reason, may not have got...

Variety reports that there is an effort by a media coalition consisting of the major broadcast networks, Dow Jones & Co. and the Hearst Corporation to have the federal court trial over California’s Proposition 8, which restricts same-sex marriage in the state.  The plaintiffs do not obj...

According to this new trailer for How to Train Your Dragon, DreamWorks Animation has a proud tradition of quality filmmaking that dates all the way back to…2001.  I do find it a bit amusing since it recalls Disney trailers that do the same thing except they can reach all the way back to Sno...

According to HDGuru.com [via Engadget], DirecTV is planning to launch an all-3D channel next year.  Having just launched a satellite into orbit that will allow for this technological revolution, sources say that DirecTV will offer a firmware upgrade to its existing HDTV boxes.  Once the satellite...

Since it seems like I have to watch every trailer that comes out in a given year, I feel it only fair to highlight the ones that were worth my precious two-and-a-half minutes. A good trailer can throw a movie high on someone’s must-see list or change indifference into excitement. I hesita...

If you’re a Back to the Future fan, an auction has just gone up on eBay that will make you wish you had an extra $70 grand lying around.  That’s because someone is selling “the most screen accurate Back to the Future Delorean Time Machine replica to ever appear on eBay”.  ...

As reported by TheOneRing.net and The Noldor Blog, The Hobbit is officially accepting applications for actors and actresses wishing to be in the two part movie.  While I’m sure you want to be in the film, before you break out the LOTR-themed casting videos and headshot that you had prepared...

If you’re aBack to the Future fan, an auction has just gone up on eBay that will make you wish you had an extra $70 grand lying around. That’s because someone is selling “the most screen ...

As reported by TheOneRing.net and The Noldor Blog,The Hobbit is officially accepting applications for actors and actresses wishing to be in the two part movie. While I’m sure you want to be in ...

How much did people love J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek?  So much that they felt too much ecstasy to leave their computers and see the movie again.  However, thanks to the wonder of the Internet, they just pirated the shit out of it and made it 2009’s most pirated film of the year with almost...

With the success of 80’s properties like Transformers and G.I. Joe at the box office, it’s little wonder that movie studios are looking at what else they can grab from that decade so they can mine it for box office gold.  As most of you know, Hollywood is trying to make Robotech, He-M...

With the success of 80’s properties like Transformers and G.I. Joe at the box office, it’s little wonder that movie studios are looking at what else they can grab from that decade so they can ...

I’m so happy that 2009 was a front-loaded year.  Friends and family asked me on more than one occasion, “It’s the end of the year, so where are all the good movies?”  I responded that this year, for whatever reason, was different and some of the year’s best films had...

Few films have come out the box recently like The Hangover. Sure there have been films that have become a part of the conversation, and the Apatow films were hundred million dollar pictures, but The Hangover was a phenomenon. Granted I live in a world where people don’t make “fat Jesu...

The Harry Potter series is something that has been running at the same time as the book were being written, and it’s hard not to wonder how much one commented and shaped the other. J. K. Rowling has suggested certain things be in the film because of end payoffs, and now we can see what she ...

The first trailer for the Chinese epic Warlords has just hit the Internet, and judging from the short glimpse we get here, this one should deliver solid action and intrigue on a truly grand scale when it comes out April 22.The movie stars three titans of Asian action cinema. Jet Li needs no intro...