Movies

VIDEO: ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ trailer is now out

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When I first saw The Social Network, my first thought was, “Oh boy, I hope at least one of the actors here get to unnecessarily reboot a superhero movie!” Thankfully, my modest and misguided dreams are now reality. Here’s the first trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man, starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone. Read more

VIDEO: ‘Osombie’ trailer is the terrorist zombie movie the world demanded

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You know how all the people forecasting 2012′s film releases were like, “Okay, there’s a lot of cool comic book movies and chicks like The Hunger Games, but where are the terrorist zombie movies? It just seems so obvious, you know?” This independent film, titled Osombie, is here to ease those nonexistent people’s pains. Read more

10 of the most memorable twist endings in movies

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In many cases, a well-executed twist ending instantly transforms a good movie into a great movie. It takes great screenwriting to string the audience along for an entire two hours, only to pull back the curtain to reveal things were not what they seemed the whole time. Read more

Netflix officially puts plans of renting out games to pasture

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And thus the final vestige of the Qwikster fiasco is officially dead and buried. Read more

VIDEO: Brad Pitt eating in movies supercut is oddly compelling

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Brad Pitt always eats in movies. Now you can’t unsee that. This supercut, seen on Filmdrunk, drives the point home and, for some reason, kept me riveted for the 90 seconds. Read more

15 of the most unnecessary movie sequels of all-time

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Movie sequels are the ultimate cash grab. Sure, occasionally, a sequel might serve as a necessary next chapter in a long planned out series, but usually sequels are boring, listless attempts to cash in on a hit film and cannibalize it for every last measly dime. Read more

VIDEO: Supercut of pun-master movie reviewer Gene Shalit is hilariously bad

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Gene Shalit has been a movie reviewer for longer than most of our readers have been alive. And the fine folks at Buzzfeed compiled some of his most onerous puns during his movie reviews. It’s a douchetastic walk down memory lane with a guy who looks like the old Wooly Willy toy. Read more

VIDEO: People in Spielberg movies sure love staring into the distance

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Film site Fandor put together this mash-up/clinical breakdown of characters in Steven Spielberg movies staring into the distance like robots. You probably didn’t realize how cliché this was until you see this video. Read more

7 movie characters who should have been arrested

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People in movies do things that the rest of us can’t do – they fly, they ride dragons, they travel back in time, they bang Megan Fox – and sometimes that even extends to the world of the law. Occasionally, a movie character will do something outrageously illegal only to get away with it completely. Read more

VIDEO: ‘Jaws’ trailer remade as a family-friendly Disney movie

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The movie Jaws can be best described as “Sharks bad, people get eaten.” But in this re-done trailer for the 1975 film, the titular shark is reborn as a lovable singing shark in Shark Song. It works! Read more

VIDEO: ‘Shark Pool’ is a fake movie about a shark in a pool

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With the success of movies like Piranha 3D and Shark Night, along with their creative bankruptcy, someone’s got to make fun of them. Enter the guys behind the brilliant Brett Favre parody and their fake trailer for Shark Pool. Read more