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Trailer: The Pirates! Band of Misfits

Now this looks fun, it is Aardman Animation’s latest stop motion animation film called “The Pirates! Band of Misfits”. I love this kind of stuff.

Review: Captain America The First Avenger

Of all the Marvel comic adaptations, I most worried about Captain America because this is a hard comic to adapt. Steve Rogers AKA Captain America is essentially a flag waving, patriotic boy scout and that works in printed form but could end up being a cheesy corn dog on screen. True “Thor” is about an …

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Trailer: John Carter

Here is the first trailer for Disney’s adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars, simply called “John Carter”. We’ve been trying to play and discuss this trailer on the Film Actually show for the last two weeks and for some reason we just never get to it so I thought I’ll just post …

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Trailer: Martin Scorese’s “Hugo”

Just when you think Martin Scorsese’s bag of tricks is just about done, he reaches in a little deeper. For awhile I was starting to think that Scorsese was repeating himself… a lot. Sure the plots to his many films were different, but the filmmaking style was pretty much set in stone. I have been …

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A New Poster, Clips and Images: Captain America: The First Avenger

We are getting close now, only another week or so and it is time for the next Marvel comic book character to come to life. I am talking of course about “Captain America: The First Avenger” directed by Joe Johnston. Chris Evans stars as the good Captain and he is surrounded by a great supporting …

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Cool Clip: 3 Minutes of Rise of the Planet of the Apes

A couple of weeks ago we were invited by Twentieth Century Fox to see about 20 minutes of the new film “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” and we were very impressed by what we saw. You can read all about our opinions of the that footage by reading the original post here. Now …

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