| With the release of the 30th Anniversary Edition of National Lampoon’s Vacation and also Vegas Vacation on Blu-ray this week, I thought it would be a good time to revisit the career of Mr. Chevy Chase. Outside of Community, he hasn’t done a whole lot over the past decade, but back in the ’80s there [...] [...] Read it at Film Junk .... |
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| Looks like writer-director team Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are up to their old tricks, bringing the most basic and broad humour possible in an attempt to parody the latest pop culture phenomenon. The creators of such films as Date Movie, Epic Movie, Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans are now setting their sights on [...] [...] Read it at Film Junk .... |
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| It’s been four long years since The Hangover hit theatres and its influence is still reverberating throughout Hollywood. R-rated comedies like Ted, Horrible Bosses and Bridesmaids continue to make big money while other movies are seemingly being greenlit as long as they have a party element to them. Now the trend is about to reach [...] [...] Read it at Film Junk .... |
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| Just when you thought this whole Kickstarter thing couldn’t get anymore confusing than it already is, Zach Braff had to go and make it more complicated. Last month the internet lit up with strong opinions and heated arguments after Braff launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund his movie Wish I Was Here, a spiritual successor [...] [...] Read it at Film Junk .... |
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| With the summer blockbuster season upon us, it seems like the perfect time to continue a debate that Danny Boyle stirred up last week while being interviewed about his latest film Trance. Boyle lamented what he called the “Pixarification” of movies, in other words, the trend towards making PG-13, family-friendly movies that reach the broadest [...] [...] Read it at Film Junk .... |
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| The dramatic first teaser trailer for Roland Emmerich’s White House Down attempted to establish it as a relatively serious summer event movie. For the second trailer, however, they’ve taken a slightly different approach, sprinkling the action with a bit more humour and some good old fashioned Channing Tatum charisma. We are also told that in [...] [...] Read it at Film Junk .... |
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| After Warner Brothers got such a great response from their WonderCon trailer for Pacific Rim earlier this week, Fox was seemingly inspired to release a new trailer for The Wolverine that premiered at CinemaCon last month. These convention and festival trailers are usually geared more towards fans and are mercifully free from having to re-introduce [...] [...] Read it at Film Junk .... |
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