With the exception of “Toy Story 3,” the last two months have produced some really underwhelming and mediocre summer movies. All that changes as “The Last Airbender” enters theaters this weekend. We now have the summer’s first bonafide stinker—a supposed fantasy adventure that has all the magic and mystery of a bologna sandwich. Adapted from […]
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Eric Melin welcomes guest host and certified Twihard Kristin Dittmar, who is a member of Team Jacob to review The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the third installment of the Twilight series. Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner are back again as Bella Swan is put in a vampire – werewolf love triangle. Isn’t that the dream […]
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Making Top 10s isn’t easy, folks. Considering that “Toy Story 3” just opened a couple weeks ago and the third movie in the “Twilight” franchise opens tonight at midnight, it was foretold that this list would happen. There was no avoiding it, simple as that. Having already written the Top 10 Fourth Movies in a […]
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Eric’s print review of this Tom Cruise-led action comedy can be found right here, but this video review with clips is from KTKA-49.
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First off: If you are looking at the group name and the song title and you think this is one of The Beach Boys‘ earlier surf songs, DO NOT STOP READING THIS. It’s not. It is, simply, one of the most beautiful and original pop songs ever recorded. By 1966, the idea of Beach Boys […]
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Once it is established in “Knight and Day” that Tom Cruise is a super-spy who can kill 20 bad guys with one gun and safely land a jet airliner in the middle of a field while his unlikely girl-next-door partner (Cameron Diaz) can’t do anything but faint or get in the way, the joke gets […]
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The following is a chat/friendly argument from about an hour ago between myself and Scene-Stealers contributor George Hickman. He started it, the jerk. 5:00 PM george: even though i liked it more than you i could TOTALLY write a 10 things that would have improved Watchmen 5:03 PM me: ha ha ha ha i can answer that […]
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Eric Melin and Trevan McGee review the latest from Pixar, “Toy Story 3.” It’s been 11 years since “Toy Story 2,” and true fans of the series may be worried that there was no reason to revisit Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz (Tim Allen), and the rest of Andy’s toys for another installment. Is “Toy Story […]
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Watch our on-camera review of “Toy Story 3” with clips. Print review: Explain the premise of the “Toy Story” series to a friend who’s never seen it (if you can find one) and you’re bound to completely miss out on what makes it special in the first place: “You see, all these toys come to […]
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For 1 Year, 100 Movies, contributor/filmmaker Trey Hock will watch all of AFI’s 100 Years, 100 Movies list (compiled in 2007) in one year. His reactions to each film will be recorded here twice a week until the year (and list) is up! Though I prefer “Wall-E” and “The Incredibles,” if you are going to […]
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Melissa Rodenbeek and Hiram Lucke, besides being the band The Harvey Girls, are long-time horror fans. From reading Fangoria to having posters of Freddy Krueger on their bedroom wall as teens, it’s only fitting that their newest release on Circle Into Square Records is titled I’ve Been Watching a Lot of Horror Movies Lately (available June 29th). With songs about Gwynplaine and a […]
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Scene-Stealers sitegoer Vincent Scarpa, a creative writing major in Boston, is mad as hell that the critical consensus for “Sex in the City 2” is so vehemently negative. I haven’t seen the movie, but his passionate defense intrigued me and you all know how much I hate ‘critical consensus.’ This article is worth checking out. […]
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Here is Eric’s on-camera review of “The A-Team,” which will be broadcast on KTKA-49‘s 6-o’clock news tonight. At the end of “The A-Team,” a huge supertanker is exploded and an aerial view makes the 100 or so enormous box cars strewn all over the port look like little Lego toys. And that’s essentially how this […]
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A remake of “The Karate Kid” comes out this weekend, but where’s Ralph Macchio? This trailer for a new documentary traces the harrowing journey of a former child star who can’t seem to get arrested. Watch this hilarious NSFW faux trailer for “Wax On, F*ck Off,” the Ralph Macchio story, from the folks at Funny […]
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