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Watch the Official Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope Trailer

Kristy Korcz — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:38:22 PST

You may know Morgan Spurlock from his french fry-eating documentary called Super Size Me, but he's turning his vision to geeks with his latest film, Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope. Interviewing geeky celebs like Joss Whedon, Seth Rogen, Kevin Smith, and following a handful of Comic-Con attendees (ranging from costume designers to toy collectors and comic book artists), this documentary appeals to my geeky side, but also gets me excited for this year's event. Check out the full trailer below and tell me - will you be watching Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope?

Link Time - Let These Cats Help You Catch Up on Lost

BuzzSugar — Fri, 21 May 2010 12:45:20 PDT

This one-minute video of cats acting out Lost is hilarious - Tremendous News
The MacGyver movie is still happening - Cinematical
The Lost staff picks their favorite episodes - TV Squad
Remember all those other SNL skits-turned-movies? - Rotten Tomatoes
Love lessons from the season finale of 30 Rock - TresSugar
Nine semi-secrets from Sex and the City 2 - HitFix
Do you like when sitcom finales end on cliffhangers? - TV.com
Stream the True Blood Season 2 soundtrack - Entertainment Weekly
Morgan Spurlock, Stan Lee, and Joss Whedon are teaming up to make a Comic-Con documentary - PopWatch

Link Time! Lost Secrets Revealed in This Week's EW

BuzzSugar — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:30:16 PST

Jack and Claire land on the cover of EW - Entertainment Weekly
Morgan Spurlock and Joss Whedon are making a documentary about Comic-Con - Cinematical
The first promo for the new Tonight Show is underwhelming - TV Squad
Carla Gugino is set to star in Faster with Dwayne Johnson - Coming Soon
The 10 greatest Syfy titles and tag lines ever - PopWatch
Check out a preview for this week's episode of Project Runway - Buddy TV
Man, I hope Tina Fey brings back the Palin impersonation when she hosts SNL in April - Inside TV
Details emerge about the new Chronicles of Riddick movie - Rotten Tomatoes
James Cameron isn't happy about what has happened to the Terminator franchise - MTV Movies Blog
13 celebrity Twitter blunders - GeekSugar

Natalie, Alec and Ryan Lead the Way at Gotham's Indie Awards

Molly — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:00:00 PST

It was a celebration of movies and acting in NYC last night at the Gotham Independent Film Awards. Ryan Reynolds hit the red carpet solo looking dapper in his vest while Brooke Shields stood close to Rosie Perez and Alec Baldwin posed with Richard Kind. Alec recently said he would be retiring from acting in a couple of years, but first he's out to promote It's Complicated out this month. He also has a big award show to host this season when he and Steve Martin take on the Oscars together. Natalie Portman showed some skin - get her look here - before being honored during the show just days before her new film, Brothers, hits theaters.

The night's big winner was The Hurt Locker while Stanley Tucci was also one of the night's honorees along with Portman. Chris Rock came out to support his documentary Good Hair, though the prize went to Food, Inc. The night was full of laughs as Meryl Streep entertained, and Sam Rockwell made funny faces with Patricia Clarkson who took the podium. Award season is underway as we start to get an idea of what lies in store for the nominations and shows yet to come.

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Images include: Natalie Portman, Brooke Shields, Alec Baldwin, Chris Rock, Ryan Reynolds, Meryl Streep, Oliver Platt, Willem Dafoe, Patricia Clarkson, Bill Hader, Stanley Tucci, Rosie Perez, Sam Rockwell, Morgan Spurlock, Derick Martini, Malaak Compton, Jeremy Renner, Richard Kind

Citizen Recap: 30 Days Working in a Coal Mine

LibertySugar — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:49 PDT

Did you think I forgot to watch the season premiere of 30 Days, with all of Tuesday's Democratic nomination wrap up, and the accompanying speech mania? Well, don't worry, because even though this recap is a day late, I still caught the episode which had filmmaker Morgan Spurlock working under the earth's surface for 30 days as a West Virginian coal miner.

Morgan spent his 30 days living with 35-year veteran miner Dale Lusk and his wife Sandy. Every morning before Dale left for the mines at around 2:00 a.m. he wrote Sandy a love note, just in case a disaster prevented him from returning home that day. The episode helped explain what motivates miners like Dale to take such risks - and the biggest incentive seemed to be cash. Dale, who has no college degree, makes over $100,000 a year.

Morgan slowly became accustomed to the dark, and labor-intensive life of a miner. To find out more about his experience,

In fact, he soon appreciated the tranquility and novelty of working beneath the earth's surface. But, near crises shocked Morgan out of his false sense of security, as did the reality that many miners, and some he had built relationships with, face debilitating health conditions like black lung.

Coal mining makes up 50 percent of America's energy supply. This episode reminded me that when I work or play on my computer, with my television, or anything else that requires electricity, I am depending on the routine and dangerous efforts of a West Virginian Coal miner.

Did you catch the episode? Stay tuned next week for 30 Days in a Wheelchair . . .

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TV Tonight: 30 Days

BuzzSugar — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:30:55 PDT

Whether you love him or hate him, you have to admit that Morgan Spurlock knows how to provoke - on screens both big and small. The third season of the Super Size Me director's TV show, 30 Days, premieres tonight on FX, full of new perspective-changing assignments for people who want to spend a month seeing how someone else lives.

Spurlock's first guinea pig is himself: In tonight's episode, he returns to his West Virgina hometown to work for 30 days in a coal mine - a job back in the news recently after several tragic accidents over the past few years. Spurlock assumes the duties of a rookie miner (mostly grunt work including shoveling coal and hauling equipment) while living with his supervisor and using his days off to talk with industry executives, environmentalists, and family members of workers who died in mine explosions. Later episodes this season will find a former NFL player spending 30 days in a wheelchair, an anti-gun activist moving in with a family of sharpshooters, and a hunter spending a month among a group of vegan PETA employees.

I've been impressed with this show in seasons past, and I find it fascinating to see what lessons the participants learn - or don't - by the time their month is up. Will you be tuning in to the show (10 p.m. EDT and PDT)? To check out a preview for the season, just

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Let's Watch Season Three of Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days

CitizenSugar — Mon, 26 May 2008 09:30:00 PDT

Morgan Spurlock of Where in the World is Osama bin Laden fame is kicking off season three of his TV show 30 Days on June 3 (that's a Tuesday at 10 p.m.) Since Liberty and I don't always see completely eye-to-eye, we're excited to watch the show - and pick sides to root for.

The show takes a look at social issues in America by making people live an alternate life that requires them to "see the world through another's eyes" for - you guessed it - 30 days. The season includes these topics: working in a coal mine, animal rights, living in a wheel chair, same-sex parenting, gun nation and life on an Indian reservation. Who's watching with us?

Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? In Theaters!

CitizenSugar — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:00:25 PDT

I must have been in a cave this weekend - or so busy talking about Ben Stein's Expelled that I completely forgot to mention that Morgan Spurlock's new flick, Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden opened this weekend. I've been following this film since way back, and now that it's out it sounds like part of a perfect afternoon - a nice double feature of intelligent design and terrorist hunting. Buzz would approve.

The trailer makes it seem like a wacky romp, which is odd given the sort of global gravity of finding bin Laden, but I'll bet Spurlock has some pretty scathing commentary on the man's elusiveness. Are you going to check it out? The reviews are in if you want to research before investing in a ticket. I wonder what topic Spurlock will take on next? Do you like his affable take on serious issues? Does he give Michael Moore a run for his money?

Sundance Review: Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?

BuzzSugar — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:32:19 PST

Morgan Spurlock may be a documentary-maker searching for truth in this crazy mixed-up world, but he’s also largely an entertainer. His work, especially his latest doc Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?, falls into the category of "infotainment" - with an emphasis on the "tainment."

The movie starts with Spurlock describing his awakening from a blissful life to the reality that his wife is pregnant. Suddenly he's tortured by all the horrors in the world that his unborn child might face - including the still-at-large Osama Bin Laden. During a hokey animated intro, he explores these awful things and decides to go on a personal manhunt for Osama Bin Laden - during his wife's pregnacy - because he wants to make the world safer for his baby. The movie then follows this timeline of nine months or so: He has to find Bin Laden and make it back to the U.S. in time for the baby’s delivery. This timing strikes me as ridiculously foolish, and it makes every scene in which Spurlock bemoans the fact that he’s missing his wife’s pregnancy ring empty and false, as this timing was completely his choice.

The timing thing aside, he does go on an exhausting journey to find Bin Laden. He explores the places and institutions that shaped Bin Laden and talks to people who knew him. He also spends a lot of time polling Middle Eastern people on what they think of America, which, you may imagine, is not often favorable. Spurlock actually takes this part somewhat seriously, and it becomes a focus of the film, proving that Bin Laden is from a particular culture that contributed to his perception of America. As one interviewee says to Spurlock, Bin Laden is part of a much larger problem; finding this one man will do nothing to eradicate the root issues.

More of my thoughts on Spurlock's doc if you

The general tone of the movie is one of humor and frivolity. Spurlock tries to make the content more palatable by presenting his quest for Bin Laden as a video game. He also utilizes cartoons and goofy music to fill us in on some of the history that influenced these modern-day opinions of American foreign policy. Even when he’s chatting with real people who are making impassioned statements about politics and religion, truly matters of life and death in many of these societies, Spurlock makes jokes, edits the film to make it funnier, and seems to be smirking. I'm all for comedies, and certainly for humorous documentaries because life is often funny. But there is something about Spurlock’s frequent "wink" in this particular film that makes me uneasy.

In the Q&A session with Spurlock following the Sundance premiere, one person said she thought the cartoons and graphics were a bit too much, that more information races by during these segments than we can possibly digest. Spurlock responded that his goal was just to get information out there to people who might not ordinarily hear any of it. He wanted to open up a discussion amongst ordinary theatergoers, and simply presenting a bunch of talking heads isn’t going to do it. I agree with this, but what if we can’t see the info for the tainment? What if, as happened with me, people watch the movie and enjoy it enough but two days later forget entirely what the point was?

Bottom line: The movie is certainly funny, and never boring. I applaud Spurlock’s effort, and I think he’s an inventive filmmaker who gets stuff seen that probably wouldn't have been explored otherwise.

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Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?

CitizenSugar — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:01:46 PST

Morgan Spurlock, director of the fantastic documentary, Super Size Me, is expected to hit the Sundance Film Festival, with a brand new creation titled, Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden. Solidifying Morgan's reputation as a bankable name, the Weinsteins' impulse bought his new pic at the Berlin Film Festival after only seeing 15 minutes of it.

Buzz is that Morgan, during his 800 hours of footage and extensive travel over the entire Middle East, actually found the elusive bin Laden. Do you think he brought him a Big Mac? The movie is wrapped in 17 layers of top secret duct tape until it makes its premiere at Sundance, January 17-27. I cannot wait to see it. Do you think it's possible? Do you think Morgan managed to find bin Laden, or is it just movie hype?