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Alice in Teaserland

22 June 2009 6:50 PM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news

Maybe "Tweedle Dee!" should be the new "Squeeeee!" for excited exclamations. You've probably seen the new images via USA Today and the info on Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland? But I'd like to talk about the cast and the polish. One of the only pluses of mainstays like 'Wonderland' being retold each decade over original work is to see how the different eras and visual artists interpret them.

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum

Wonderland. If you click over to USA Today you can move

around in the gardens with your mouse. For what it's worth it looks like

Edward Scissorhands has been hired as Wonderland's landscape artist.

Mia Wasikowska as Alice (the oldest Alice since Meryl Streep?) and

Matt Lucas as Tweedledee and Tweedleydum

Helena & Anne Hathaway as Red & White Queens. Depp as Mad Hatter.

I love what My New Plaid Pants says about the latter: "if Elijah Wood

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Five High School Movie Pranks That Don’t Involve Yearbook Profanity

18 June 2009 2:00 PM, PDT | From MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news

It’s not every day that a high school prank hits the newswire. A high school senior in Shaker Heights, Ohio, made headlines by designing a yearbook cover that hid an a F-bomb of a farewell salute. He was forced to apologize and the school quickly recalled the yearbooks, but most seniors are holding onto their obscene copies in salute to their artistic prankster. At Shaker’s graduation ceremony last week, he was hailed as a hero of the senior class, receiving loudest applause and the most cheers of any student as he accepted his diploma.

So, to salute the hero of Shaker Heights and every other senior prankster, I’ve compiled five of the best high school movie pranks. It’s hard to narrow it down to just five because they’re a staple of comedies, drama and horror alike. Keep that genre-spanning in mind if you’re dreaming

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Elisabeth Rappe

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Screwball ’80s Comedies That Should Be Games

12 June 2009 12:00 PM, PDT | From MTV Multiplayer | See recent MTV Multiplayer news

With launch of “Ghostbusters: The Video Game” next week we think we should see a renaissance of ’80s screwball comedies getting video game treatments. Here are five that we think would rock:

“National Lampoon’s Vacation”

Reason For Inclusion: Honestly the first thing that jumped to mind was that trip-planner/”Pac-Man” mash-up that kicks off the movie (great loading screen, by the way), but the thought of driving around Phoenix with a dead grandmother on the roof seems to just beg for a digital redux.

Style of Game: Open-world Adventure

Must-have Level: Wally World Hostage Mission

Possible Achievement: “This is crazy, this is crazy, this is crazy” – Jump into the pool without your wife seeing.

“Revenge of the Nerds”

Reason For Inclusion: There’s so much variety in this flick that the levels just write themselves. There’s the hazing, the Greek Games, the panty raid and, oh yes, the volleyball scene.

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Five Movies That ‘Drag You To Hell’

29 May 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | From MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news

Director Sam Raimi makes his long awaited and apparently triumphant return to the horror genre this weekend. “Drag Me to Hell,” starring Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver and David Paymer, follows loan officer Christine Brown (Lohman) who ends up cursed after she turns down a mortgage extension for the wrong person. Her sanity crumbles as the world around her turns into a sort of living hell.

Now Raimi is far from the first filmmaker to look to the netherworld for inspiration. In the course of building this list, I found that there are surprisingly few horror movies that deal directly with Hell as a location, at least in comparison to other genres. That said, film in general is littered with references, reinterpretations and outright visitations to the realm of the damned. Heck (ha!), as the list below shows, even musicals aren’t safe from Satan’s touch.

The “Hellraiser

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Adam Rosenberg

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[DVD Review] Ferris Bueller's Day Off

7 May 2009 12:51 AM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news

"They think he's a righteous dude."

For the most part, people still do. Long held as one of those pivotal teen pieces of American culture, Ferris Bueller's Day Off has been quoted the world ‘round by everyone. How many teachers or professors can you think of that have repeated the Ben Stein "Bueller....Bueller" attendance shtick? Hell, a painted water tower in the movie went on to inspire the name for the band Save Ferris. That's an entire band quoting the movie by its very existence. Ferris Bueller's Day Off became a worldwide sensation and made Matthew Broderick loveable enough that by the time he starred in Godzilla we still paid money to see him - even though we'd been told the movie was awful.

Ferris Bueller (Broderick) is the popular kid everyone dreams of being in high school. Even if you were a popular kid in high school, you

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Lex Walker

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Blu-Ray Round Up, May 5, 2009: ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,’ ‘Grease,’ ‘Saturday Night Fever’

5 May 2009 4:42 PM, PDT | From HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news

Chicago – Get on your dancing shoes before you hit the floor for the latest version of the toe-tapping Blu-Ray Round-Up, a special edition with three beloved flicks from the ’70s and ’80s with musical beats.

Only one (“Grease”) may be an actual musical, but people still remember the great soundtrack from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and “Saturday Night Fever” was all about The Bee Gees. All three titles were released on Tuesday, May 5th, 2009.

“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”

Photo credit: Paramount Synopsis: “Ferris Bueller. Larger than life. Blessed with a magical sense of serendipity. He’s a model for all those who take themselves too seriously. A guy who knows the value of a day off. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off chronicles the events in the day of a rather magical young man, Ferris (Mathew Broderick).

One spring day, toward the end of his senior year, Ferris gives

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Cinematical Seven: Great Cross-Genre Horror Films

21 April 2009 8:02 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Why is it that so many horror movies look exactly the same as every other horror movie? It doesn't have to be so -- this week's new DVD releases include a straight-to-video gem called The Burrowers about a post-Civil War rescue party, looking for a kidnapped family in the Dakota Territories, who discover that something more horrible than Indians snatched the locals. It's a beautifully shot, intelligent film that owes more to John Ford's The Searchers or to Terence Malick than to modern scare flicks, and a brilliant example of cross-genre horror. The film got a little play at small film fests, where it was well received. But most of us have had to wait for DVD to discover that it even exists, which is a shame.

All of which raises an interesting question: Why don't more directors mix up the stale old conventions, and combine horror with other film genres?

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Dawn Taylor

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Monsterpalooza Reminder! Convention In Burbank, CA May 29th-31st!

9 April 2009 7:54 AM, PDT | From iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news

A few weeks back, we ran the initial press release for the upcoming convention event Monsterpalooza taking place in Burbank, CA on May 28th through the 31st. Some addition guests have been added to the show, including: Doug Jones (Sunday only), Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes), Danielle Harris (Saturday only), Sid Haig (The Devil's Rejects), Julie Adams (Creature From The Black Lagoon), Eileen Dietz (The Exorcist), Jeffrey Jones (Sleepy Hollow, Ed Wood), comic artist Bernie Wrightson, Jim Warren (Publisher Famous Monsters, Creepy & Eerie) and many, many more! Get the full details by clicking the ad below or right Here! Original press release reprinted below! See you there!

The Marriott Burbank Convention Center

                                     May 29 –31 2009

          

An F/X Driven Convention  Bringing F/X Artists And The  Creatures They Create To The Foreground

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Seminars And Presentations Related To The World Of Monsters & Special F/X… All Weekend!!!!

 

Knb Efx- Award winning FX company ,Sin City,

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[DVD Review] Amadeus: Director's Cut

23 February 2009 12:38 PM, PST | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news

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What do you get when you combine the life story of one of the greatest classical composers, two terrific actors, and a musical score and soundtrack that rivals any of the past, present, or future?  You get Amadeus.  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the musical prodigy himself is brought to life by the masterful acting of Tom Hulce and featured in the flashback retelling of Antonio Salieri's confessions in a mad house.  As a winner of 8 Academy Awards (including Best Picture) Amadeus crosses that border and achieves true greatness. Seeing it remastered on Blu-ray is simply a sight to behold.

The story joins us after the great composer's death with Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) confessing to the supposed murder of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.  To give the priest further insight into all that transpired he regales us with the story through the eyes of the once popular musician.

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Lex Walker

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9 articles from 2009

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