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Brian Salisbury goes into Robert Zemeckis’ highly animated retelling of A Christmas Carol with high hopes. He emerges however, with less than high praise.

What began as a clever riff on Johnny Quest and the superhero genre has evolved into an engrossing series with a tangled and hilarious mythology. Over the past three years The Venture Bros. has distinguished itself from Adult Swim’s other droll animated fare…

The Village Voice lists the man who recently penned I Will Not Read Your F*cking Script as the “A History of Violence screenwriter,” but I prefer to think of him as the writer/director of direct-to-DVD masterpiece Infested.

All I heard for weeks was how Park’s vampire opus Thirst was a gorgeous, deeply affecting film; my interest was duly peaked. Two very long hours later, I emerged in the minority. I did not like this film.

The wait is finally over. The anticipation all year long, the bittersweet uncertainty, the constant flaming of people that don’t like Twilight and Transformers 2 on the Internet, and having to actually sit through Spike TV programming have once again come to fanboy fruition.

Reports are streaming in from back-alley sources and “little birdies” that Marvel is toying with converting Iron Man 2 to 3D. If this sounds like a bad idea to you, you’re absolutely right…

Not a month goes by that we aren’t reminded that another Batman movie isn’t in the works. Only this time, the rumors are just too much — it is time to fight back.

Inglourious Basterds has been a project talked about for almost a decade now, living only in the mind of Quentin Tarantino. Finally the film is almost here, and worth the wait. Take a minute though, and listen to a few warnings that come with this film.

If you’re anything like us, you walked out of the theater thinking a few things: (a) that Neill Blomkamp should direct a Halo movie and (b) District 9 would make a kick-ass video game experience. With that in mind, we humbly present 7 Reasons Why a District 9 Game Would Be Awesome.

So you’re not all that excited about a one-off SNL sketch becoming a feature-length film? If it’s R-rated, maybe you should be.

The folks at MovieTickets.com sent over a very interesting little bit of poll information today, tying in the popular social media platform Twitter with mainstream moviegoers.

A few years ago, Neill Blomkamp directed a short series of commercials for Halo, giving us just a glimpse of what a movie might look like with him at the helm. Now, with District 9, we know what we’re missing, but we’ll always have his short film and the question of what it might look like if he had a proper budget behind him.

In which we join forces with other websites to start the campaign for Joan Holloway, sexy mercenary in space…

It’s almost the weekend! Wanna get laid? Want your girlfriend/wife/lifemate/roommate you hook up with occasionally after karaoke night to cook delicious crap you can’t pronounce for like, a month? Take her to see this movie. And know a little backstory.

Julie & Julia has been cooking up some serious drama in the foodie world. One part movie based on a blog, two parts snark, and the zest of good ol’ fashioned dissin’. 500 degrees for 18-22 minutes. Recipe for disaster? You tell us.

The gap is tightening – movies are either full-blown successes or major flops. In a content-driven culture, how are some films that fail at the box office supposed to fly under the radar to have a second-life on DVD?

Does it matter that Transformers 2 is probably this summer’s worst movie? Sadly, no. It’s little more than crassly commercialized cinematic excess, but still some viewers and reviewers have latched blindly on to Bay’s teats as if they expect awesome-flavored milk to start splashing against their tongue. And yes, I am talking about all of FSR’s head honchos…

This isn’t news. It’s not even a rumor. It’s just a speculation created by putting two and two together. And today, 2 + 2 = David Tennant is Dr. Who in the feature film.

There has been a lot of chatter around the topic of strong female characters in film lately. And as Paramount gears up its lady-led actioner Honey Pot, we ask whether this is more eye-candy service or if the girls of America will get their Indiana Jones. Or something like that.

Should special features once prevalent on DVD’s be relegated solely to Blu-ray releases going forward? If Warner Home Video has their way that just may be the case.