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Hot Viral Video: “Looking at you”

There are a lot of movie-mashups posted to YouTube these days, with varying degrees of success. This is one of the better ones I’ve seen — five glorious minutes of your favorite characters “looking at you.”

“Dark Shadows” – Vampire History Featurette

Warner Bros. has put out a neat three-minute featurette to promote the upcoming “Dark Shadows” that looks at the history of vampires in cinema and specifically how this history inspired director Tim Burton and actor Johnny Depp on the project. “Dark Shadows” drops May 11 in theaters and IMAX.

Stream Ebertfest 2012

Roger Ebert’s annual festival of overlooked films, held in his hometown of Champaign-Urbana, Illinois at the Virginia Theatre, began yesterday and continues all weekend. For those of us unable to make the pilgrimage to Ebertfest, Mr. Ebert and company are kind enough to provide a live-stream of all the Q&As (embedded above). Given that the …

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A new way to review movies

An old friend posted this to his Facebook wall today, and while it’s hard to condone vandalism, I can’t help but be impressed by the inventiveness of this new venue for reviewing movies. The only problem is that the prospective viewer has already rented the disc, thereby making a recommendation useless. But with a movie …

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