I’m looking forward to next year’s Cowboys and Aliens as much as anybody, but am I alone in seeing shades of Freddy Krueger in this just released international poster for the film? The poster does nothing to dampen my enthusiasm for the film, of...
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Orlando Bloom is reportedly close to finalizing a deal to reprise the role of Legolas for the upcoming Peter Jackson directed prequel The Hobbit. Bloom played the role in all three of Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films.  Although Legolas doesn’t appear in the JRR Tolkien...
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Deadline Hollywood reports that comedian Russell Brand will play the lead in Warner Bros. big-screen adaptation of popular British children’s TV show Rentaghost, which ran on the BBC for 8 seasons from 1976 to 1984. Deadline’s description of the project makes it sound like...
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Hayden Panettiere (Heroes) and Nikki Reed (Twilight) have signed on to star in director Nelson McCormick’s (The Stepfather) Downers Grove. The film, based on a script by satirical novelist Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho), from a novel by Michael Hornburg (Bongwater), tells the story...
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Newly formed independent studio FilmDistrict has acquired US rights to the upcoming sci-fi actioner Lock Out.  The film is scheduled to begin shooting in January and stars Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace. Described as a kind of “Taken (which also starred Grace) in outer...
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Deadline Hollywood reports that The Weinstein Company has acquired rights to Apollo 18, a found-footage sci-fi horror film that centers on NASA’s cancelled Apollo 18 moon mission.  Conspiracy theorists have long maintained that the Apollo 18 mission—along with Apollo 19 and 20—was conducted in...
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There’s an old flame burning for Penny as week 11 opens and that flame is none other than Zack—Mr. Excitation himself. On the one hand, considering Zack’s appearance in last week’s The Alien Parasite Hypothesis (he was the “alien” who drove Amy Farrah Fowler’s endocrine system into a gluteus-maximus-grabbing frenzy), his reappearance this week...
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With Julia Stiles signed for only one season, there was no doubt, headed into season 5’s finale, that the character wouldn’t return for season 6.  The only question was: how would the writers dispatch her? To my thinking, the obvious solution was killing her.  That would not only eliminate her, but do so in...
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It’s impossible to watch The Alien Parasite Hypothesis without anticipating that Sheldon and Amy Farrah Fowler will end up in the bedroom before the episode’s conclusion, engaging in a little carnal “bench research.” You read correctly. After almost half a season of watching Ms. Fowler’s unique social graces—she of the robotic King Cobra charm—we...
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Stan Liddy finally meets his ending in week 11, but it wasn’t exactly the ending I’d hoped for; his death—which came at Dexter’s hand—might even be described as anticlimactic.  Liddy’s demise did, however, reveal some significant—albeit subtle—character changes in Dexter; changes first hinted at in the season 5 premiere.  Namely, Dexter seems to have...
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The game is afoot between Jordan Chase, Dexter and Lumen.  As such, as In the Beginning opens, Dexter sends Harrison off with Sonya to be with Rita’s parents in Orlando.  He also moves Lumen into his old apartment.  Now Dexter and Lumen need only plan their attack. With three of the five members of...
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The Boyfriend Complexity features one of the most long-anticipated moments in Bang history: Howard and Raj share their first onscreen kiss.  Actually, it’s an accidental kiss—mostly accidental anyway—but many regular Bang viewers have probably seen this coming; thank goodness Howard and Raj didn’t or we might’ve been cheated out of one of season 4’s...
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