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Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Although at first glance this looks like a stand alone, full reboot of the classic “Planet of the Apes” series of films, on closer inspection there are a lot of little hints that this is actually pretty closely related to the original 1968 film starring Charlton Heston. Forget the Tim Burton reboot in 2001, this …

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Trailer: Tower Heist

Let me just start by saying that I love a good heist film and when they incorporate humour they just get better. “Tower Heist” is directed by Brett Ratner, with a not so great track record with the geeks after “X-Men The Last Stand” but it should be noted that “Rush Hour” and “After the …

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New Trailer: Kevin Smith’s Red State

Here is the new trailer for Kevin Smith’s new “Red State” and let me just warn in advance that this is NSFW. We discussed this trailer on the most recent Film Actually episode (episode 141) and I thought I’d throw it up here because it is just awesome. We have recently found out that “red …

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Trailer: Red Tails

I feel like this has been a long time coming, this is the first trailer for the George Lucas produced WWII action epic “Red Tails”. The film is about the first all African-American aerial combat unit known as The Tuskegee Airmen. The film looks spectacular and I am really looking forward to it. The story …

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Trailer: Battleship

We’ve been talking about director Peter Berg’s “Battleship” for sometime now. The film, which is based on the classic Milton Bradley board game, was announced sometime ago and it has been the brunt of many jokes ever since. Several months ago on TV’s “The Colbert Report”, Stephen Colbert had joked that Keanu Reeves should have …

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Video: Exile Vilify (A Lego Portal 2 Music Video)

When I was looking around on YouTube a few days ago I came across an interesting Lego animated film called “Exile Vilify”. It was about the Portal games and it went through how Aperture Science was started and how GLaDOS was created and it was all animated in Lego. The video was made for a …

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