Posts Tagged ‘Star Wars’

Netflix Watch: A Crazed Director & Gun-Toting Poolboys

Netflix Watch: A Crazed Director & Gun-Toting Poolboys

This week, we dig a couple of movies out of the Netflix stream that try to offend our good taste and our delicate sensibilities. Take your pick and have a few laughs this weekend.
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Videogame Releases: Week of April 1st, 2012

Videogame Releases: Week of April 1st, 2012

It looks like April is going to be a slow month for new videogames. Sorry, folks. Here’s hoping some sweet ‘Rock Band’ DLC or groovy iOS/Android games unexpectedly come down the pike as the studios developing for consoles and PC seem to be working on bigger releases. Otherwise, you’ll have to buckle down for what is sure to be the most exciting videogame release week of the month, which is obviously not saying much
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R.I.P. Ralph McQuarrie

R.I.P. Ralph McQuarrie

The creative arts felt another significant loss over the weekend with the passing of Ralph McQuarrie, the famed production illustrator who helped conceive much of the look of the original ‘Star Wars’ trilogy. He was 82-years-old.
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Weekend Roundtable: Movie Nit-Picks

Weekend Roundtable: Movie Nit-Picks

Let’s face it, few movies are perfect. Even some of our favorite films have flaws. Some may be tiny, but others are really glaring. Perhaps it’s one particular scene that doesn’t work, or an actor who’s miscast, or even a single line of groan-worthy dialogue. This week’s Roundtable is all about nit-picking. What small detail do you wish you could change in a movie that you otherwise like?
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Weekend Box Office: Never Underestimate Denzel

Weekend Box Office: Never Underestimate Denzel

Aside from that 3D ‘Menace’, every movie in the box office Top 5 this weekend blasted past expectations – one of them by more than $18 million!
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George Lucas Attempts Jedi Mind Trick on Gullible Fans

George Lucas Attempts Jedi Mind Trick on Gullible Fans

You don’t need to watch the original scene. This isn’t the film footage you’re looking for. We can go about our business. Move along.
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Weekend Roundtable: Worst Movie Titles

Weekend Roundtable: Worst Movie Titles

We have a really simple but fun Roundtable topic this week. Let’s call out our picks for some of the worst movie titles of all time. Regardless of whether the movies themselves are any good or not (though many of our choices stink), these films are burdened with lousy titles that turn us off from wanting to watch them.
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Weekend Movies: A Variety of Mindless Flicks

Weekend Movies: A Variety of Mindless Flicks

All of the movies taking the big screen this weekend are on the border of mediocrity. None of them is fatally terrible nor particularly great, but every audience has something to mild to see.
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George Lucas Threatens to Retire, Whines About His Sad Lot in Life

George Lucas Threatens to Retire, Whines About His Sad Lot in Life

While promoting this week’s theatrical release of the WWII action drama ‘Red Tails’, which he produced, George Lucas told the New York Times that he’s going to “retire” from making blockbuster movies because the evil, evil Hollywood studios aren’t being nice to him anymore, and he thinks that his fans are all jerks anyway. The funniest part of this: Lucas really expects ‘Red Tails’ to be a blockbuster.
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Videogame Releases: Week of December 18th, 2011

Videogame Releases: Week of December 18th, 2011

After a really exciting November, December feels like a real bummer. There were no new videogames worth writing about last week. This week would be the same if not for one of the biggest MMO launches in quite some time.
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