Posts by Tara Ariano
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MTV Viewers Love the Twilight Franchise (But Also: New Footage From The Dark Knight Rises!)
Soooooo? How’d we all do in our MTV Movie Awards pools? Guys, I really thought teenagers would be more enamored of The Artist! That’s $500 I’ll never see again.
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AMC Will Re-Air The Walking Dead Pilot in Black and White, Because Why Not?
To hype the imminent third season of its zombie drama, The Walking Dead, AMC has launched a daring viral campaign involving several seemingly unconnected incidents of deranged cannibalism.
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Bill Murray, Human Torch? Yes, Really
Intense scrutiny goes hand in hand with the casting of any iconic superhero, and yet a few years back, when the Fantastic Four film installed Chris Evans as Johnny Storm (the Human Torch), I don’t recall anyone complaining that Bill Murray didn’t get the gig. Granted, at the time Murray was well into his fifties, […]
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Aaron Sorkin Already Getting a Little Obnoxious About the Steve Jobs Movie He’s Writing
After winning an Oscar for his screenplay for The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin became a very safe choice to adapt Walter Isaacson’s biography, Steve Jobs, for a feature film; it was in this capacity that Sorkin sat for a session with journalist Walter Mossberg yesterday at the AllThingsD D10 conference. And like his characters, Sorkin […]
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The Dark Knight Rises Trailer Reimagined With Hot Dogs, Ponies
The Dark Knight Rises, which will conclude Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, is one of this summer’s most highly anticipated films … which naturally means it’s a prime target for parodists. Oscar winner Christian Bale and Oscar nominee Anne Hathaway are fine and everything, but when the movie comes out in July, will they really be […]
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Jaguar VP Basically OK With Mad Men Portraying Their Car As a Bribe-Fueled Home-wrecking Machine
Viewers of Mad Men are familiar with the compromises required by a career in advertising: kowtowing to difficult performers (and their wives), relationship-straining hours, the possibility of losing your nice office to a weaselly account man. Until the latest episode, however, the show hadn’t portrayed an employee trading sex for the acquisition of a new […]
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation: Why Was It Really Delayed?
No one you know was more upset about G.I. Joe: Retaliation getting bumped from opening June 29 of this year to March 29 of next year than I was. I mean, by the time those Cobra banners unfurl on the White House, I could be dead! When Paramount announced the move last week, the reasons […]
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The Five Most Intentionally Enraging Fake Community Showrunner Tweets
It’s only been days since the Internet was rocked by the news that showrunner Dan Harmon would not return to Community, the sitcom he created, for its truncated fourth season (his departure having been ordered for reasons the show’s stars must not disclose). And given that Twitter is the platform to which so many Community […]
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Freak Show & Tell: Violent Brats, Shingles, and Monstrous In-Laws
Every week, television documentaries present us with so many unusual people, with so many strange and/or disturbing problems, you might find it hard to keep up with all of them. That’s where I come in! Here’s an unflinching look back at TV’s Week in Freak Shows. Pregnant in Heels (Bravo) Who Is This Now? Jessica […]
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Moonrise Kingdom Dominates the Box Office (Art House Division)
How limited is the release of Wes Anderson’s new film Moonrise Kingdom? Well, as this reporter discovered on Friday, it didn’t even open in Canada. But even without the powerhouse Canadian audience driving ticket sales, Kingdom opened huge: According to Deadline, it took in an average of $130,752 in four U.S. locations over the long […]