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The Reader
If you didn't catch this provocative movie about the Holocaust (and so much more), now is your chance to do so.
The Spirit: A Flashy Story Lacking Soul
From dime-store digests to lush graphic novels, the comic-book genre has fully established itself as part of high culture. Along with the literary upgrade have come equally artful films, including The Dark Knight and Sin City. But for all its highbrow hopes, The Spirit plays like a B movie.
The Spirit Looks Good, Watchmen Looks Freaking Awesome
Yeah, another dispatch from Comic-Con today but I just had to share because I attended the panels for
The Spirit Gets a New Trailer
The new trailer for the upcoming film The Spirit brings fans of Sin City back to the world of Frank Miller and his surreal,
noir-ish style. The description of the plot (based on a popular comic by Will Eisner) on IMDB is this: "Rookie cop Denny Colt returns from the beyond as The Spirit, a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces in Central City."
In the trailer we find a man in a Zorro-like mask (Because I Said So's Gabriel Macht) being tormented by the hot women in his world who all seem to want to have sex with him.
What Do You Think of Frank Miller-Directed Movies?
There continue to be posters, images and recently a teaser trailer for the Frank Miller-directed adaptation of Will Eisner's comic The Spirit. Everything we've seen so far features Miller's distinctive style — oozing with sexiness, promising violence, and rendered mostly in shades of black, white, and red.
Miller (who wrote 300) also wrote and directed Sin City, which I liked well enough (though some claim it's on the misoginystic side) and I think the teaser for The Spirit looks pretty cool.
Scarlett Johansson Lands 3 More Roles and She's Not That Into You
Scarlett Johansson has been super busy lately, readying herself for the premiere of one movie next Friday (The Nanny Diaries), working on Woody Allen's latest project and scoring herself three more roles.
One of these is in the oft-reported-on film adaptation of He's Just Not That Into You. In it she joins the all-star cast (now with more Aniston!) as "a pilates instructor/aspiring singer who has an affair with a married man and hopes that he will leave his wife for her."
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Precious Leads the 2010 Independent Spirit Award Nominations
Matt Dillon and Taraji P. Henson were up to announce the 2010 Independent Spirit Awards nominations this morning in LA, and the nominees are making me smile: Precious is represented in almost every major category, with nods for the director, actresses, screenplay, and film. And though they're yet to be released, both The Last Station and A Single Man won several nominations, which is only upping my anticipation for them.
Link Time! The Hurt Locker Wins the PGA Award
- The Hurt Locker earns the top prize at the Producers Guild of America Awards — HitFix
- Vampire flick Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead comes to theaters in April — MTV Movies Blog
- Eddie Izzard will host the Independent Spirit Awards — Vulture
- NBC puts Rex Is Not Your Lawyer on hold — Ausiello Files
- CBS orders more Survivor and The Amazing Race — The Wrap
- Scarlett Johansson's Broadway verdict: she's good! — Huffington Post
- The creators of How I Met Your Mother are working on a new show — TV Squad
- Alexander Skarsgard to get nekkid on True Blood — Marc Malkin
- Should Robert Pattinson sign a record deal with Simon Cowell? — PopSugar
- The MP3 is getting one-upped by the creation of MusicDNA — Rock & Roll Daily
- A new (very quick) slice of Lost footage from the upcoming season — TV.com
Valentine's Day TV Episode Sneak Peek!
Valentine's Day is just around the corner, so you know what that means: time for your favorite TV characters to get in the mushy spirit. The holiday is perfect fodder for some of the best sitcoms, so prepare yourself for dates gone awry, bizarre love confessions, and the like. Here's a sneak peek at what you can expect from TV's finest fictional funny people this week.
Jersey Shore: Continue or Kill?
Tonight is the season finale of Jersey Shore, and it's had one of the more spirited inaugural seasons. The reality show has yielded protests, advertiser pullouts, shore slang, male-on-female violence, male-on-male violence, female-on-female violence . .
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