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Review: iTunes 99p Rental – Scary Movie 3

27 October 2009 5:01 PM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

The way we watch movies is changing. In five years time, the studios believe, all our home entertainment will be delivered digitally. Apple know this, and already have a large quantity of movies available via iTunes and Apple TV.

To encourage us to try this form of media, every week iTunes offers one movie for rental at 99p, a considerable discount from the usual price of £3.50. Every week I  review the movie that has been chosen. This week, to coincide with Halloween, they’ve selected… Airplane creator David Zucker’s Scary Movie 3.

The first Scary Movie was the first proper spoof movie for a while when it was released. Opening at a time when gross-out movies had hit their prime, it was a big success. Infused with The Wayan family’s edge and relevant humour, it was a mix of old style Zucker/Abrams puns and more contemporary American Pie-style sex comedy, »

- Barry Steele

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2009 Fall Preview: "The Good Wife"

26 August 2009 6:10 PM, PDT | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »

The Good Wife

Network: CBS

Premiere date: Tuesday, September 22 at 10:00 p.m., Et

Cast: Julianna Margulies, Josh Charles, Matt Czuchry, Archie Panjabi, and Christine Baranski

Synopsis (from CBS):

The Good Wife is a drama starring Emmy Award winner Julianna Margulies as a wife and mother who must assume full responsibility for her family and re-enter the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail. Pushing aside the betrayal and crushing public humiliation caused by her husband Peter (Chris Noth), Alicia Florrick (Margulies) starts over by pursuing her original career as a defense attorney. As a junior associate at a prestigious Chicago law firm, she joins her longtime friend, former law school classmate and firm partner Will Gardner (Josh Charles), who is interested to see how Alicia will perform after 13 years out of the courtroom. Alicia is grateful the firm's top litigator, »

- tvmadman

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Julianna Margulies Is The Good Wife- September 22

13 August 2009 2:45 PM, PDT | HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news »

The Good Wife, written by Robert and Michelle "In Justice" King is an upcoming CBS Television Studios legal drama series starring actors Julianna "ER" Margulies and Chris "Sex And The City" Noth. Ridley "Blade Runner" Scott, Charles McDougall, Tony "Top Gun" Scott and David Zucker executive produce. Premise of the new series follows 'Alicia Florrick' (Margulies), the wife of politician 'Peter Florrick' (Noth), who was previously jailed following a public sex/corruption scandal. Florrick returns to her old job as a defense attorney to rebuild her reputation and provide for her two children. The Good Wife debuts September 22. Sneak Peek a preview of The Good Wife »

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Michael Jackson And 10 Classic Movie Moments That Would Not Exist Without Him

1 July 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

Last week’s sad death of Michael Jackson has all of us in the MTV newsroom working overtime these days, for obvious reasons. We already ran a story on Mj’s direct influence in movies and TV including “The Wiz” and “The Simpsons.” What’s even more impressive is the movies he inspired without even appearing in them.

Below are ten classic film moments that would not exist if Michael Jackson never moonwalked across our planet and into out hearts. What’s your favorite?

“Back to the Future” trilogy

In “Back to the Future Part II,” we got a peek at the theme restaurants of 2015 via an order-taking television with a “waiter” hybrid of Mj and Max Headroom. In the trilogy’s final entry, set in the Old West, Marty McFly avoids getting shot by moonwalking away from some evil cowboys.

“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”

Although Johnny Depp denied »

- Larry Carroll

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The Five Rules For Making a Modern Spoof Film

22 May 2009 4:20 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

"Dance Flick," from a group perhaps best described as the Wayans Brothers: The Next Generation (Keenen Ivory's nephew Damien Dante produced and directed the film, which stars his cousin Damon Jr.) opens today, the fifth parody movie (or spoof) since the start of last year. This astonishing burst of productivity has coalesced around a new set of rules for making spoof films that places them in stark contrast to watershed predecessors like "Young Frankenstein" or "Airplane!"

Here are five reliable new school spoofing guidelines. There's a 50/50 chance these will work for "Dance Flick" too, though there's only a ten percent chance of that.

1. You can never have too many references.

It's not that the spoofs of yesteryear didn't reference other movies -- they did. But they were traditionally woven into the film by way of flashbacks or dream sequences - think of the "Battleship Potemkin"/"Untouchables" opening to "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult. »

- Matt Singer

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CBS Renews ‘Cold Case,’ Picks Up ‘Medium,’ Cancels ‘Without a Trace’

20 May 2009 7:55 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – In a relatively shocking announcement as a part of fall schedule upfronts this week, CBS actually pulled the trigger on “Without a Trace,” a show that had reportedly gotten too expensive for the network. There were rumors that they may do the same with “Cold Case,” but that show will return with on-the-bubble shows “The New Adventures of Old Christine” and “Rules of Engagement” also being miraculously renewed and “Medium” being saved.

This Fall CBS adds the popular drama series Medium, starring Patricia Arquette, Fridays (9:00-10:00 Pm, Et/Pt), forming a hauntingly compatible two-hour block with Ghost Whisperer at 8:00 Pm.

Photo credit: Robert Voets/CBS CBS announced a number of interesting schedule changes, especially for a network that has been so successful over the last few years. They are moving two of their bigger shows - “The Big Bang Theory” and “The Mentalist” - and launching »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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CBS Announces 2009-2010 Primetime Schedule

19 May 2009 6:44 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

CBS, the only major broadcast network to grow its audience in all key ratings measures this season, announced today the addition of four new series to strengthen its already top rated primetime lineup for the Fall 2009-2010 season.

The new series include three dramas and one comedy. Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J star in NCIS: Los Angeles, a spinoff from the hit drama NCIS; The Good Wife stars Emmy Award winner Julianna Margulies in a legal drama about a steadfast wife and mother who boldly returns to work as a lawyer when her husband is imprisoned for a high profile political scandal; Three Rivers, a medical drama that stars Alex O'Loughlin as the head of a renowned transplant surgery team, and Accidentally on Purpose stars Golden Globe Award winner Jenna Elfman in an ensemble comedy about a successful, single journalist who accidentally gets pregnant by a much younger man. »

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An American Carol Movie Review

6 March 2009 8:00 PM, PST | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »

This is the latest David Zucker; "Naked Gun" type of movie that the audience is accustomed to seeing and you know what? This one works (albeit it still falls somewhat short from his "Naked Gun" series of licks back in the late eighties and early nineties). This time, Zucker parodies "the terrorist threat in America" and terrorists throughout the  years and it's still a winner despite some of the "now lame" jokes that have been done to death over the years. Yet, comepare this one to "Superhero: The Movie" and "An American Carol" shines. Zucker wrote and directed this movie and the timing »

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Superhero Movie Movie Review

3 February 2009 8:00 PM, PST | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »

David Zucker is back and big time; unfortunately this time he falls somewhat flat in delivering the "Naked Gun" style of humor he did some almost twenty years ago. In "Superhero The Movie" Zucker parodies superheroes and to a degree he does a good job, but he seems to have "lost" the zest for the puns and humor that he used very effectively in the three Naked Gun movies and that's a shame because "Superhero The Movie" could have been alot funnier that as it was presented on the big screen. Again, this is a movie where the humor comes out to fast and the timing for much of the movie is all wr »

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[DVD Review] The Naked Gun

1 February 2009 12:48 PM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

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The Naked Gun and Airplane series have earned their places in the annals of comedy fame. Slapstick comedy, outrageous dialogue and hilarious situations elevate normal everyday stories to films of such comedic heights that they're remembered fondly by everyone. I don't think I'm crossing a line when I say that Leslie Nielsen deserves a fair share of the credit. "Don't call me Shirley" still gets used in offices around the world and there's point denying that Leslie Nielsen (until about 10 years ago) was the ultimate clueless slapsticker of his day.

Case in point: The Naked Gun.

Sidelining all the other comedic talents to be found in Airplane, The Naked Gun places all the pressure squarely on the shoulders of Nielsen as Police Officer Frank Drebin.  Right from the credits The Naked Gun sets the tone for a cop story gone zany. As »

- Lex Walker

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[DVD Review] Top Secret!

28 January 2009 8:53 AM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

Hey, remember that movie that played constantly on Comedy Central about a decade ago? No, not Half-Baked, National Lampoon’s Vacation, or Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. That’s right. Top Secret! is now re-released on a special "I Love the 80s" Edition of the DVD.

The brain-child of Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, the people behind Airplane! and The Naked Gun, Top Secret! is a double-header parody of both Elvis movies and war movies, featuring American rock and roll star Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer in his first movie) traveling to East Germany to give a concert. Through a series of unfortunate events, he gets caught up with Hillary Flammond (Lucy Gutteridge), a member of the East German resistance, who is trying to break her father (Michael Gough) out of prison with the help of her comrades. As the film-makers wholeheartedly admit themselves, that’s about as far as the plot goes. »

- Anders Nelson

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Commentary Tracks Of The Damned: An American Carol

8 January 2009 9:01 PM, PST | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

Crimes: • Tackling the fatuousness—and the fat—of Michael Moore via the fictional "Michael Malone," a documentary filmmaker whose attempts to ban Independence Day are thwarted after three patriotic ghosts visit him • Vacillating over whether Malone is merely a trumped-up celebrity created by the liberal media, or a dangerous demagogue with legions of blinkered followers • Advancing a broad, insulting analogy between people who question the Bush administration's tactics in the war on terror, and people who would've appeased the Nazis, or prevented Lincoln from freeing the slaves • Mocking liberal professors and venal Hollywood types with the subtlety and fine detail of a Mallard Fillmore cartoon Defender: Director/co-writer/co-producer David Zucker, co-writer/co-producer Lewis Friedman, and star Kevin Farley Tone of commentary: Gap-filled and sheepish. Early on, there are several long pauses followed »

- Noel Murray

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