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Movie Monday: Date Night
These are two posters for the recent movie Date Night. I think that these are fundamentally both pretty boring posters that don’t actually tell us much about the movie, despite the tattered clothing,...
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Movie Monday: Prince of Persia
This is a trailer for the upcoming movie Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The visual part of this trailer is pretty typical for an action movie trailer – shots of the main characters, a few brief...
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Movie Monday: Splice
This is a poster for the upcoming movie Splice. I honestly wouldn’t have batted an eye at this poster if it weren’t for the fact that I just recently saw the preview for the same movie. The preview...
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Barbie: Trying to Claim a Song
In 1997 Aqua came out with the song “Barbie Girl”, which has become incredibly popular and nearly instantly recognizable over the years since. That same year Mattel sued the group for copyright and...
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Movie Monday: Waking Sleeping Beauty
This is a trailer for a documentary that is out now about the Disney animated movie making team from the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s. It’s called Waking Sleeping Beauty. I think that this trailer...
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Movie Monday: Eat Pray Love
This is a poster for the upcoming movie version of Eat Pray Love. I stared that this poster for a long time before deciding to talk about it here. The thing is, this poster bugs me. A lot. And it...
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Meanwhile: A Book of Many Paths
This is the cover of the book Meanwhile by Jason Shiga. I love this cover. I think that it does such a great job of conveying the idea of there being multiple choices and paths throughout the book...
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Movie Monday: Killers
This is a trailer for the movie Killers. What bothered me most about this trailer was that it didn’t tell us the major point of the movie (that the guy is a spy or something like it) until more than...
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You Again: Betty White Saves the Day
This is a trailer for the movie You Again. This is one of those trailers that gives you a situation rather than a plot and you’re sort of left wondering if the whole movie is just the situation from...
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Zatanna: Mistress of Magic
Last month DC Comics started a series focusing on the character Zatanna who is a stage magician with real magic powers. To advertise this new comic, they’ve been using these two banner ads online....
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