Watch Bella Beat a Vampire Hulk Arm Wrestling

Watch Bella Beat a Vampire Hulk Arm Wrestling
Total Film

The new film sees the Cullens bond together against the Volturi as the council of vampire elders come looking for their daughter, Renesmee. There stands to be quite the smackdown.

Directed by Bill Condon and co-starring Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, Breaking Dawn - Part 2 opens in the UK on 16 November 2012.

They are such a tease! Just when you thought that Emmet would beat Bella, *cut*. I guess now we’ll never know what happens, or we must watch the movie to find out. Yikes.

By the looks of it, the scene is shot in the same choppy/jarring way the other…

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The Making Of ‘Lincoln’

The Making Of ‘Lincoln’

Lincoln is an upcoming 2012 biographical war drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as United States President Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. The film is based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s biography of Lincoln, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, and covers the final four months of Lincoln’s life.

Steven Spielberg was interviewed for 60 Minutes in honor of his upcoming film release. While his life story, his relationship with his parents, and his approach to filmmaking which borrows from his childhood are certainly…

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Taken 2: Please Take It Back — Review

1.5 of 5 stars
Taken 2: Please Take It Back

If I were introducing Taken 2 to a friend, I would ask him, “Have you seen the first one?”

“Yes,” he might answer blankly. Then there would be an awkward pause.

“Well,” I would beg the question, “What did you think of it?”

“It’s alright,” he might answer halfheartedly. I would promptly nod in approval.

Then I would tell him plainly, “Okay, then Taken 2 wouldn’t work for you.”

How did we end up with Taken 2?

Taken had a certain unexpected intriguing simplicity. It’s the unanticipated adventure of Brian Mills, a very unassuming father that’s faced with post-retirement drudgery.…

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Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) — Review

5 of 5 stars

Thanks again to Corey for submitting another reader contributed review. If he’s not careful he’s going to become a regular contributor. We welcome the interaction and collaboration, and I’m pretty sure I need to see this film now. Enjoy.

 

TJ

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Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

“You’re too old to be filling your head with such nonsense,” Carmen tells her daughter, Ofelia, in an early scene in Pan’s Labyrinth. “Such nonsense” is a book of fairy tales, cradled lovingly in Ofelia’s hands.

But are fairy tales nonsense? Should they be read only by the very young? Or can grown-ups learn from them, too?

For Guillermo de Toro, the answers are clearly No, No, and Yes, respectively. Pan’s Labyrinth is an R-rated tale full of fauns, faeries, and other fantastical creatures. It’s bloody and it’s dark. But it also has much to say.

A Long, Long Time Ago…

The story takes…

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Disney’s Original 1994 ‘Looper’ Trailer

Disney’s Original 1994 ‘Looper’ Trailer

Did you know Looper is a remake? Our friend at Carpe Seizure made sure we did. Truthfully speaking, what if Looper (2012) were based after a sad Disney movie of the 90s? I think we all would still enjoy it.

In case you wonder, this is a young Joseph Gordon-Levitt from Angels in the Outfield (1994) in the following video. Most people don’t remember seeing Joseph before Inception, yet his career started early in life. 

Here’s the full details about the Screen Junkies video from YouTube:

Did you know Rian Johnson’s Looper (2012) is actually a remake?? In this installment of SuperCuts…

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Is ‘Tron’ Ducatti Stunt Work Real or Digital?

Is ‘Tron’ Ducatti Stunt Work Real or Digital?

Tron: Legacy is one of those movies that disappointed general audiences but still holds some avid fans. As Ian Buckwalter at NPR pointed out, “Despite all the gloom and grandiosity, this can be a fun movie, particularly for those willing to sit back and let it wash over them.”

Typically audiences concentrate on the virtual reality of Tron’s story, and let the real world moments slip past — but not today. The cool crew over at TheTechFeed and the likes of Revision3 have some kindred spirits that believed the film was entertaining. And like all “cult” fans, they believe the film still holds…

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Ben Affleck Isn’t In Favor of Obama

Ben Affleck Isn’t In Favor of Obama
Associated Press

“I voted for Obama last time although he got to be all things to all people then,” Affleck said in an interview to promote his new film Argo. “And now he’s got a record which makes it really different … I obviously have more complicated feelings.”

Affleck says Romney’s inability to connect with everyday Americans is reminiscent of past failed candidates.

“I think Republicans really had a chance to win,” Affleck said. “And they kind of ended up with like a sort of Mike Dukakis, Al Gore, Bob Dole type - who just couldn’t get people to see him as a real person somehow. Romney just had…

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Top New Releases for Oct. 5 Weekend - Trailers

Top New Releases for Oct. 5 Weekend - Trailers

New in theaters for the weekend is Taken 2, Frankenweenie, Wuthering Heights (limited release), and many others. I would imagine if you haven’t seen the trailers for these three top films yet that you are probably here to see them and not read this, so please watch:

Studio’s synopsis of Taken 2:

Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, the retired CIA agent with a “particular set of skills” who stopped at nothing to save his daughter Kim from kidnappers. When the father of one of the villains Bryan killed swears revenge, and takes Bryan and his wife hostage in Istanbul, Bryan enlists Kim…

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Media Distribution Paradigms

Media Distribution Paradigms

I’m one of those cable cutters; I do not have subscription cable TV. I have a cable line running into my house, but it only provides me with Internet. I use Hulu and Netflix, and I have pretty much ripped all my DVDs or Blu-rays and store them on a Hard Drive on an inexpensive Mac Mini “Media Server”. When I purchase these days, I purchase almost all my movies, TV shows 1 , and music through iTunes. The reasons for this are simple, it’s fairly future proof, I can re-download the media from iTunes in the Cloud anytime I want or need to, which also makes it always available via streaming to…

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Trouble with the Curve — Review

3.5 of 5 stars
Trouble with the Curve

An ailing baseball scout in his twilight years takes his daughter along for one last recruiting trip.

It’s a story about living as a human being — not a human doing. Best laid plans and hard work go to waste, but life seems to work out for the best if you’ll just stick with it.

And like one character in the movie says, “It’s just a game.”

Storyline

Gus Lobel is one of the great baseball scout experts that should be added to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Thanks to Gus, the Atlanta Braves were successful during the nineties, what with the key players Gus introduced to the team.

But now…

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