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Are All The HBO: True Blood Castings Confusing You?

Are All The HBO: True Blood Castings Confusing You?

endymion December 30, 2009

Fear not. Though there are many and myriad reasons to get HBO, in Canada it just became available and I subscribed (along with the other mandatory bundlings) for the primary purposes of being able...

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Armless Trailer: If You Feel Anything, Just Start Screaming

Armless Trailer: If You Feel Anything, Just Start Screaming

endymion December 30, 2009

Excellent advice generally but not to a man that has Body Integrity Identity Disorder, a real problem where people feel the compulsion to chop off various parts of their anatomy in order to feel...

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The Fights Of Solomon Kane: Behind The Scenes

The Fights Of Solomon Kane: Behind The Scenes

endymion December 30, 2009

“Solomon Kane” is a movie I am really looking forward to. That particular era (16th Century England) is criminally underused and features an excellent hysterically paranoid culture, bug eyed in terror over witches and...

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How To Train Your Dragon Trailer 2: Scottish Vikings, Dragon Whispering

How To Train Your Dragon Trailer 2: Scottish Vikings, Dragon Whispering

endymion December 30, 2009

Being semi old and crusty, tough and gristly, I remember the good old days of animation, all Disney, when about all the detail you really got in a scene was the shaded apple or...

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Will James McAvoy Be Bond, James Bond?

Will James McAvoy Be Bond, James Bond?

endymion December 29, 2009

Another biopic is on the way, this time featuring the life and good times of James Bond writer Ian Fleming. The scuttlebutt is that Scotsman James McAvoy (Wanted) a fine lad, is attached to...

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The Full Nazi Propaganda Film From Inglourious Basterds

The Full Nazi Propaganda Film From Inglourious Basterds

endymion December 29, 2009

Besides swinging a mighty bat in Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds”, Eli Roth also directed the short film “Nations Pride”, the film supervised by Joseph Goebbels and screened for the Nazi elite in a most...

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Captain America Ready To Roll Without A Cast And Good Green Lantern News

Captain America Ready To Roll Without A Cast And Good Green Lantern News

endymion December 29, 2009

According to the fine fellas over at Fangoria, principal photography for the as yet un-casted “Captain America” is set to roll in June of 2010. That’s pretty soon. No casting news yet. Will it...

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Will Taylor Lautner Wrestle His Sweaty Demons In A New Vision Quest?

Will Taylor Lautner Wrestle His Sweaty Demons In A New Vision Quest?

endymion December 29, 2009

Millions of screaming teenage girls just might be dying to find out if “Vision Quest” gets the old reboot. “Vision Quest” was a pretty decent 80′s flick where a  teenage dude (Mathew Modine) gets...

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Stephen King’s Son Joe Hill Gets His Horns Optioned

Stephen King’s Son Joe Hill Gets His Horns Optioned

endymion October 13, 2009

Joe Hill, the horror writing son of Stephen King, is getting his second novel, the unreleased “Horns”, optioned for a maybe movie. The deal with optioning is, for those unaware, is that somebody gets...

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First Trailer For Kate Beckinsale’s Whiteout

First Trailer For Kate Beckinsale’s Whiteout

endymion June 16, 2009

Ever since the classic Sci-Fi horror film “The Thing” starring Kurt Russell I have had a thing for the claustrophobic, snow blind, arctic isolation movie. Will the elements get you? Will you end up...

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Pixar’s Up (2009) Movie Review

Pixar’s Up (2009) Movie Review

endymion May 30, 2009

Pixar goes about making movies in a different way than the vast majority of movie studios do these days. For one thing, these movies take a very long time to make. Pixar says that...

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Spielberg To Direct Martin Luther King BioPic?

Spielberg To Direct Martin Luther King BioPic?

endymion May 19, 2009

Dreamworks has acquired the rights t0 produce a feature film based on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. according to Variety. Steven Spielberg, Suzanne de Passe and Madison Jones will produce. No word...

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First Official Twilight: New Moon Poster

First Official Twilight: New Moon Poster

endymion May 19, 2009

The first “official” poster for “New Moon”, your all singing, all dancing, vampire, werewolf and romance extravaganza has the struck the internets. Ok, no singing apparently and if there is dancing it is a...

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Angels And Demons (2009) Movie Review

Angels And Demons (2009) Movie Review

endymion May 17, 2009

“Angels and Demons” holds a niche position in one kind of movie watching hell. I could not let my mind wander while watching it and still follow the tangled intricacies of Robert Langdon’s fascinating...

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In The Loop Brings Office Diplomacy To International Levels Of Funny

In The Loop Brings Office Diplomacy To International Levels Of Funny

endymion May 16, 2009

“In The Loop” is a difficult movie to summarize. Let me just say that if your movie trailer diet only allows one viewing per day, “In the Loop” has the high calorie count you’re...

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The First Trailer For Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”

The First Trailer For Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”

endymion May 14, 2009

We’ve waited a long time for the first trailer for the “The Road”. There is no doubt a movie based on Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer prize winning novel about a man and his son’s hard...

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Daniel Day Lewis Dances As Guido In 9

Daniel Day Lewis Dances As Guido In 9

endymion May 14, 2009

The great Daniel Day Lewis stars alongside Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, Kate Hudson, Nicole Kidman and Sophia Loren in the film version of the broadway play “9″ that was itself adapted from...

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A Clip Full Of Angels And Demons

A Clip Full Of Angels And Demons

endymion May 14, 2009

This weekend, as Angels and Demons hits theatres, we will again be treated to Tom Hanks as the intrepid Dr. Robert Langdon as he sleuths his way across and through the dark and dangerous...

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