Viral Websites Offer Screenings For “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” Dan Koelsch, December 10, 2011 Briefly: With the film just 11 days from being released in theaters, the viral campaign for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo looks to be drawing to a close with special screenings on Monday. The Mouth Taped Shut Twitter account has been giving the locations where free tickets are available,…
Trailers Weekly: “Cabin in the Woods,” “Extremely Close and Incredibly Loud,” “The Lorax,” “The Three Stooges,” and “Battleship” Michael Lee, December 10, 2011December 10, 2011 Trailers Weekly is a feature in which we bring you the most popular and talked about trailers of the week. Sharing trailers is a classic viral practice, and trailers are still the most mainstream way for people to learn about movies. You may have not known it, but there were…
Movie Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Jon Burke, December 10, 2011December 10, 2011 There are formidable problems with filming Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: the novel is lengthy, intricately-plotted, beloved by fans of its author, John le Carré, and already had a celebrated 1979 BBC television adaptation starring none other than Alec Guinness a.k.a. Obi-Wan Kenobi. The former issues aside, Guinness’ performance alone was…
Movie Review: “Young Adult” Michael Lee, December 9, 2011December 9, 2011 Generally movie audiences are cheering for the hero to save the day, the good guy to get the girl, the down on his luck athlete to make the winning jumper (had to use a basketball reference since the NBA is back), but none of that matters when you can make…
Operation Early Bird Leads to Early Screenings of “The Dark Knight Rises” Prologue Caleb Hamilton, December 9, 2011December 9, 2011 Earlier this week, two mysterious CIA documents were “leaked” online. It was quickly revealed that these had something to do with The Dark Knight Rises. A third document, tweeted out yesterday by The Fire Rises, mentioned a black ops mission called “Operation Early Bird”. This lead to the discovery of…