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Rate-a-Trailer: Gulliver’s Travels

By Caroline Stanley on

There’s something that’s off in the trailer for Rob Letterman‘s (Monsters vs Aliens) new Jack Black comedy Gulliver’s Travels. Maybe it’s the unbelievable storyline: Black plays a mailroom clerk who gets demoted by some kid, and then plagiarizes his way into a travel writing assignment that sends him to the Bermuda Triangle. Maybe it’s the weird romantic plot: Amanda Peet + Jack Black does not compute. Maybe it’s the fact that Hollywood has taken Jonathan Swift’s hidden island of Lilliput and turned it into a full on bro-fest, complete with fist bumps and Foosball tables. (In fact, if he saw this, he’d probably want to eat Letterman and turn his skin into ladies gloves.) Maybe it’s our frustration that the fantastic Emily Blunt doesn’t event get to speak! Or maybe we’re just bitter because this is yet another movie that’s coming out in 3D, and that’s $20 we weren’t looking to spend. … Read More

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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. Paramount Pictures has clinched its deal with Tom Cruise to reprise his role as Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible 4. He’ll co-produce with J.J. Abrams, and they’re shooting for a Summer 2011 release. [via

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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories

By Caroline Stanley on

1. Zaha Hadid’s Burnham pavilion in Millennium Park is finally open seven weeks behind schedule. [via Chicago Tribune]
2. Jack White will release a solo single on August 11 called “Fly Farm Blues” written while filming the new guitar documentary It Might Get Loud. [via Pitchfork]
3. Grey Gardens director Michael… Read More

Film

Rate-a-Trailer: Despicable Me

By Lauren Hubbard on

We hadn’t heard much about Despicable Me before now, mostly that it has an amazing voice cast (read: Steve Carell, Will Arnett, Jason Segel, Kristen Wiig, Danny McBride, Russell Brand, and Julie Andrews), but Universal has just put out the first trailer; an unusually-long-as-first-trailers-go 2 and a half minute scene.… Read More

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“Apatow World” Looks Like Real Life, No?

By Caroline Stanley on

OK. Let me preface this by saying that I love most of Judd Apatow’s movies. So maybe I’m a bit biased about the video that awaits you after the jump. The idea is cute: Streeter Seidell and Sarah Schneider from that College Humor/MTV thing we’ve never watched have written a song called “In an Apatow World.” It’s all about how the schlubby dudes in the Frat Pack movies would never be able to bag the chicks that they land in reel life in real life. Har har. … Read More

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Video of the Day: "Dracula's Lament" (Live)

By Caroline Stanley on

Being reminded of this little gem from Forgetting Sarah Marshall is the only reason we’re glad that I Love You Man is hitting theaters — we wince every time we see the billboard on the way to work, and we actually like Jason Segel and love Paul Rudd. The lesson here: puppet operas never go… Read More

Television

Seth Rogen Should Not Make Pornos for TV Too

By Caroline Stanley on

So he’s not spending all of his time in the gym: Variety reports that Seth Rogen is behind a new porno-based comedy for Showtime with his good buddy Evan Goldberg (other new Showtime series with A-list talent include Nurse Jackie which stars Edie Falco and United States of Tara from Diablo Cody).

Overexposed Rogen is one of the last members of Judd Apatow’s “Back Pack” that we’d like to see playing a guy running a pornography shop (maybe because he looks too much like a guy running a pornography shop), so we hope this isn’t one of those projects that he plans to write and star in. Knowing that these incestuous funny guys like to keep things in the family, after the jump you’ll find our casting suggestions for him — let us know if you agree with our ranking. … Read More