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Tomorrow is 11/11/11 — Remembrance Day times 3, or Veteran’s Day if you’re in the U.S. The day marks the official end of World War I… Continue reading Girls on Film: Remembering Actresses We Wish Were Around Today

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The other day we checked in on Spike Jonze’s new stop-motion short film, Mourir aupres de toi (To Die By Your Side), and showed you a behind-the-scenes video of Jonze — and his collaborators Simon Cahn and handbag designer Olympia Le-Tan — while they pieced together the artist’s latest creation. Now the full short is available to watch online below.

But first… Continue reading Watch/Learn: Spike Jonze's Latest Short and New Website Tells You Where Movies Were Filmed

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Sometimes it still amazes me how much mileage they managed to get out of the Back to the Future franchise. Till this day fans (including yours truly) are still obsessing over its story points, its cool DeLorean car, and all the little futuristic (by mid-80s standards) gadgets scattered throughout the three movies. The stuff folks really seem to love, though, are introduced in the future sequences in… Continue reading Watch: New Experiments Prove We're Inching Closer to a Real-Life 'Back to the Future' Hoverboard

If people who reviewed movie trailers were honest, it would go something like this.

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The most important fact we should take away from Sunday’s Emmys ceremony—and hopefully the ONE FACT future archaeologists will note when they unearth a laser disc of this travesty—is that A LOT of very talented, deserving actors won Emmys this year. Credit where credit’s due: Both the nominations and winners in the acting categories were well-selected, and if an Emmy statuette is worth at least a bump in pay, then… Continue reading The Emmys Were Terrific Just Kidding (PHOTO RECAP)

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