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Last night I finally got around to watching Richard Lester’s version of The Three Musketeers (1973) with my friend Magnus, to use his nom de blog, and it was definitely a hoot — but the biggest laugh probably came when we watched the trailer: Click here if the video file above doesn’t play properly. The funny thing is, if you’ve seen the film, then you know that the guy played by Joss Ackland — i.e. the guy who happens to... Read more

My review of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is now up at CT Movies. For a little more background on the paragraph where I talk about C.S. Lewis’s approach to pre-Christian paganism versus post-Christian modernity, see my three-year-old posts on the astrology of Narnia and the paganism of Narnia. Read more

For months, there has been speculation that John Hurt may be playing Abner Ravenwood, the father of Indy’s erstwhile girlfriend Marion Ravenwood, in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which comes to theatres next week Thursday. The filmmakers, on the other hand, have been keeping his character’s identity secret. But the cat may have been let out of the bag now — and with the filmmakers’ approval. So, dear reader, if you do not want to know... Read more

Two years ago, I interviewed Cory Edwards, the writer-director of Hoodwinked! (2005; my review), and in that interview, he talked about how he tried to overcome the budget limitations on his animated film by employing the same “fakey” but “charming” aesthetic that Jim Henson had used for Kermit the Frog. So I wasn’t that surprised to read in Variety tonight that Edwards is bringing another of Henson’s old creations to the big screen: The Weinstein Co. will turn the Jim... Read more

The first time I saw someone put brand-new subtitles on this clip from Downfall (2004; my review), it was when Warner decided to ditch their HD-DVD product and go exclusively with Blu-Ray as their next-generation, high-definition format of choice: Click here if the video file above doesn’t play properly. More recently, there was this version produced after the Democratic primaries in North Carolina and Indiana last week: Click here if the video file above doesn’t play properly. These were the... Read more

Here are the figures for the past weekend, arranged from those that owe the highest percentage of their take to the Canadian box office to those that owe the lowest. Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay — CDN $5,740,000 — N.AM $30,716,000 — 18.7%21 — CDN $8,990,000 — N.AM $80,418,000 — 11.2%The Forbidden Kingdom — CDN $4,960,000 — N.AM $48,261,000 — 10.3%Made of Honor — CDN $2,500,000 — N.AM $26,275,000 — 9.5%Forgetting Sarah Marshall — CDN $4,810,000 — N.AM... Read more

No time to argue! You throw me the newsbites, I throw you the whip! 1. Variety reports that Religulous, Bill Maher and Larry Charles’s satirical documentary about religion, has been postponed from its early summer release date to October 3, which is more or less the same time of year that Charles’s last film, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006), opened. The new release date also happens to be smack dab in the... Read more

Jeffrey Overstreet says he is “getting unsettled by Karen Allen’s perpetual, ear-to-ear grin in the promotional shots for Indy 4 . . . I hope Marion Ravenwood’s return to the Indy world will remind us of the tough-talking, punch-throwing dream girl who won our hearts in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Marion gone soft and smiley? Say it isn’t so!” Variety and the Associated Press do their best to assure him and all who share his fear that, if anything,... Read more