“Your eggo is preggo, no doubt about it.”
The Scoop: 2007 PG-13, directed by Jason Reitman and starring Ellen Page, Michael Cera and Jennifer Garner
Tagline: A comedy about growing up… and the bumps along the way.
Summary Capsule: High school girl gets knocked up and… you know, just read the Saved! summary, but minus the Jesus stuff.
TV News: 
Among its seven new pilots, Fox has ordered superhero drama Human Target. Jon Steinberg adapted the DC comic about “Christopher Chance, a mysterious security-for-hire who assumes the identities of people in life-threatening danger, becoming the “human target” on behalf of his clients.”
Another Fox pilot, an as yet untitled project from WBTV, is about past-life investigators who “use the concept of reincarnation to solve mysteries in their clients’ previous lives in order to resolve their problems in the present.” It’s written by David Hudgins who is exec producing with Lou Pitt and M.J. Rose. Read the rest of this entry »
“‘Bucks? ‘Dough’? What is all this zoological talk about male and female animals?”
The Scoop: 1969, G, starring Arnold “Strong” Schwarzenegger, Arnold Stang, Deborah Loomis, and Ernest Graves
Tagline: See him topple two ton newspaper rolls! See him toss tough men like toothpicks!
Summary Capsule: Almost 40 years ago a ginormous Austrian was unleashed upon filmgoing audiences. His name was Hercules. And he went to New York.
“I’ve got to get to a library- fast!”
The Scoop: 2006 PG-13, directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Audrey Tatou, Ian McKellan and Jean Reno
Tagline: Seek the Truth
SUMMARY CAPSULE: The Church is an evil entity dedicated to covering up sex and women, and Tom Hanks must expose it all! (Um, the Church’s cover ups. Get your mind out of the gutter!)
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Trailers:
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Japanese trailer
Mutant Chronicles redband
Dead Snow Norwegian with English subtitles
Big Man Japan Japanese with English subtitles
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“I need cats like I need butt implants!”
The Scoop: 1991 NR, directed by Skip Jones, and starring Michael Bell, John Byner and Robin Williams.
Summary Capsule: Opus the penguin wants to fly, and he knows just the jolly old elf to help him do it. Also, stooge-geese and hairballs.
General News:
Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. Entertainment movie studio will eliminate nearly 800 jobs, or 10 percent of its global work force with most of the jobs will coming out of the studio’s headquarters in Burbank, California, in a mix of layoffs, the elimination of open positions and outsourcing. Read the rest of this entry »
When searching for the next movie to unleash into a full-fledged Mutant Viewing (now with 85% more sodium!), I found myself squatting at a curious crossroads. Yes, there were plenty of bad movies to take on and examine under a (hopefully) witty, critty microscope… but I felt like that’s all I’ve been doing, lately. Even us ogres have a soft side. Yet the good movies out there are, as Pooly once said, hard to review in length, because it all ends up with you saying, “Boy howdy, this is great!” They don’t all make for great viewing material.
So, squatting in front of my DVD rack, I considered my choices for a long time, until one day, out of the blue, a little fairy with a nasty cough knocked on my door and thrust a copy of The Princess Bride into my hands.
What could it possibly be? Will it require pain on your part? Who knows! Find out by reading Kaleb’s mysterious post on the forums!
“Humans who put seeds in the ground pour water on them, and they grow food – like, pizza!”
The Scoop: 2008 G, directed by Andrew Stanton and starring Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, and Jeff Garlin
Tagline: After 700 years of doing what he was built for – he’ll discover what he’s meant for.
Summary Capsule: Two robots, one distinctly female and the other just plain cute, fall in love while humanity gets lazier and lazier by the second.
