Posts Tagged Mic

Lost, Reimagined As ’60s Pulp Fiction

Posted on February 5, 2010

Faster Smoke Monster! Kill! Kill! Here’s a fun Lost-related video made by some fans for last year’s Comic Con. So it’s a little old, but it’s still pretty neat. We almost wish the show really was like this. [via EW]

Tags: Fans, Fun, Mic

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Can Indie Movies Survive?

Posted on February 5, 2010

Indie films have become the lost children of Hollywood in recent years. Author Edward Jay Epstein explains why Hollywood is abandoning the indie movie business in favor of merchandisable CGI spectacles like Avatar.
If you are a producer of indie movies, the great sucking sound you may be hearing is Avatar draining money from your future [...]

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American Idol: Hollywood Ho

Posted on February 4, 2010

Well gang, we did it. We got through a month of auditions episodes. Many of us died, even more of us are injured or dying, but we’ve struggled across the finish line and next week will taste glorious Hollywood.
Last night’s episode wasn’t about anything, so there’s not much to say. Basically it was the [...]

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KANYE, USHER & OTHERS UNITE

Posted on February 3, 2010

Music’s brightest stars were back in a familiar “World” on Monday – recording a new version of the song that raised more than $30 million for African hunger-relief programs 25 years ago.

“We Are the World,” which was responsible for getting such ’80s icons as Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Lionel Richie and Cindy Lauper [...]

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Everything That’s Happened on Lost So Far, Just from Memory

Posted on February 2, 2010

Lost is so confusing! But not that confusing. Here I will try to write, from memory without using any wikis, fan sites or Google, everything important that’s happened on the show up to tonight’s final-season premiere. Wish me luck.
A guy named Jack wakes up in the middle of the jungle wearing a suit and doesn’t [...]

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The Cable Movie Rewatchability Index

Posted on February 1, 2010

With cable TV rerunning our favorite movies at a vicious rate, it is hard to determine whether or not one should give up two hours to the cable gods. Finally, we have a handy formula to help us decide.
Between TBS, TNT, Spike, Bravo, the Hallmark Channel, and every other basic cable outlet padding out their [...]

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Forecasting the Oscar Nominations: All Tomorrow’s Snubs

Posted on February 1, 2010

Tomorrow is Gay Christmas Eve, with Oscar nominations announced in the ayem, setting hearts aflutter and sending visions of sugarplum fairy Hugh Jackman dancing through heads. We have a good idea of who will be nominated, but who should be?
Best Supporting Actress — Catherine O’Hara, Where the Wild Things Are
No one does quirky menace quite [...]

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2010 GRAMMY PERFORMANCES

Posted on February 1, 2010

This year brought some rather tasteful performances. It was decent this year…
Surprisingly, Beyonce gave a pretty compelling performance. She performed a medley of her “If I Were a Boy” mixed with with Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know.” A little soft mixed with a little hard. Loved it. She [...]

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Is ‘Twelve’ the Worst Movie in the History of Sundance?

Posted on January 30, 2010

Nick McDonell was 17 when he wrote 2002’s Twelve, about New York’s richkids experimenting with new superdrugs. Now it’s a Sundance movie, by Joel Schumacher, starring Chace Crawford, Emma Roberts, Keifer Sutherland, and 50 Cent. And it sucks. Terribly.
Via Page Six this morning:

Post critic Kyle Smith reports from Sundance that audiences were giggling at the [...]

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Wall Street 2: Greed Is Good, But It Is Also Old

Posted on January 28, 2010

Here’s a teaser trailer for Oliver Stone’s new, either-really-timely-or-really-dated Wall Street sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Which is true! But it does burn in credit fires. Anyway, look! Gordon Gecko is old! Shia LaBeouf is young. Money is… asleep.
Oliver Stone was probably thinking of fat old 2006 while putting this project together, but [...]

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