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Slightly. Here’s a taste: I wanted that movie that Nolan was chasing. I really wanted that movie. But as is the nature of the dramatic arts, there is a mystical and undeniable gut feeling when you know that even the best film has come to its natural end. And in The Dark Knight, this occurs […]
David Poland dings ‘Dark Knight’
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:21 pm · July 9th, 2008
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“A hell exists on earth? Yes. I won’t live in it. That’s me.”
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:18 pm · July 9th, 2008
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What is the most watched film of all time?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:46 pm · July 8th, 2008
It’s a question that just came to me this evening when talking with some friends. What would you say is the most watched film of all time? How many films would even be on that list of contenders? Off the top of my head I would have to consider “The Wizard of Oz” and “It’s […]
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“I figure a man’s only good for one oath at a time.”
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:22 pm · July 8th, 2008
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Pixar’s ‘Presto’
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:19 pm · July 8th, 2008
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Things I care about at this year’s Comic-Con: part two
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:09 pm · July 8th, 2008
Disney doesn’t seem to have a whole lot to offer at this year’s exhibition, though everyone will certainly be greatly anticipating any goodies from the upcoming Pixar effort “Up,” announced today as part of the proceedings. From the press release: From the inventive storytellers that have taken you into the worlds of space, toys and […]
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12.21.2012
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:00 pm · July 8th, 2008
I have my own fascinations with the year 2012, by now making leaps and bounds in the pop culture stratosphere some 20 years since Jose Arguelles first began scaring the shit out of everyone back in 1987. I’ve read the books. I’ve always got one toe in the cosmos, so I’m certainly interested in the […]
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‘Gangster’ stinger
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:45 am · July 8th, 2008
Regarding today’s post about movie stingers, was anyone aware that this scene from “American Gangster” (which was featured in trailers for the film), actually shows up after the credits? I didn’t discover this until today. Had no idea. httpv://youtube.com/watch?v=8hyWalAVo7s
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Things I care about at this year’s Comic-Con: part one
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:06 am · July 8th, 2008
I really won’t be caught dead at another San Diego Comic-Con so long as I live (though I will be attending what should be a fun after party Friday night). But studios are beginning to announce their line-ups and I guess it’s time to start rooting through what would be worth checking out. Warner Bros. […]
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Michael Bay’s ‘Dark Knight’
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:57 am · July 8th, 2008
It seems Spill.com got a hold of the very same “Dark Knight” script “written by Michael Bay” that landed in my inbox this week and has apparently been making the ha-ha rounds. All in good faux fun, of course, but I’ll let /film’s link take you there.
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Movie stingers: do they work?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:39 am · July 8th, 2008
If you saw “Hancock” over the weekend, you probably noticed a brief scene in the middle of the closing credits sequence featuring Mike Epps and meant as a funny punch for your theater exiting pleasure. It got me thinking about inter- and post-credit sequences — called “stingers” — and whether they ought to be eliminated altogether. I ask this despite […]
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“The present is trivia.”
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:05 pm · July 7th, 2008
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Nolan for Best Director?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:53 pm · July 7th, 2008
Always willing to be a bit brazen with his predictions (I like that), Nathaniel Rogers is busy updating his picks over at The Film Experience. My favorite left-field notion is his choice of Christopher Nolan in the lone director slot for “The Dark Knight,” naturally. I had the same idea in mind three years ago, […]
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Uh…‘Good Shepherd’ was always part of something more
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:27 pm · July 7th, 2008
I’ve read three stories today indicating that Robert De Niro wants to spin “The Good Shepherd” into a trilogy. This…is not news. Not exactly. The first mention was an aside in this Variety story, which was simply a “by the way” kind of thing. Then Cinematical got a hold of it and passed the news […]
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Sigourney Weaver + who in ‘Alien 5?’
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:28 pm · July 7th, 2008
Meredith Woerner at io9 is wondering this week whether sci-fi/action writers will finally bone up and produce a sidekick to our modern cinema heroes and heroines worth the price of a ticket. She’s rightly spotlighting recent examples in “Live Free or Die Hard” and “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” as reason […]
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A guy of simple tastes
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:02 pm · July 7th, 2008
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiZ-e0k50yc
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The Netflix Player by Roku
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:58 am · July 7th, 2008
So…is this the future? That’s the debate, and part of the reason why I’ve stayed out of the HD-DVD/Blu-ray pissing match for the last three years. Indeed, it’s probably safe to say by now, what with the drastic changing of the tide in the music industry, that streaming and internet downloads for home delivery is […]
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New ‘Dark Knight’ trailer and Thompson blows a raspberry
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:38 am · July 7th, 2008
I remember when I first heard about the footage shown to fans at Wizard World in Chicago last year. I was partially still feeling burned from not getting anything at Comic-Con in San Diego, but the description still had me tingling with excitement (especially the Two-Face scene, which closed the trailer and was released almost […]
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