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The legendary fugitive director was finally apprehended by law officials for his Statutory Rape charge from back in 1978, wherein he drugged and sexually assaulted a 13 year old girl, Samantha Geimer.

While Polanski has successfully stayed outside of US jurisdiction since then, avoiding trial for his crime, he finally made a fatal mistake on Sunday, September 27th… Continue

In what is possibly the most confusing business move this year (or even this decade), Disney has announced that they plan to buy the comic giant Marvel for $4 Billion dollars.

Robert Iger, chief executive at Disney, said this:

“We believe that adding Marvel to Disney’… Continue

I am a very lucky guy. I was blessed enough to just find a copy of Terry Gilliam’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas on the Wal-Mart shelves recently. The legendary word-of-mouth about both the film and the book had me interested and 9 dollars wasn’t much to lay down for this movie. Oh, what a bargain, what a bargain!

This movie is fantastic. I’ve watched it 8 times since pu… Continue

Now this happens.

Colby Curtin, a 10 year old girl from Huntington Beach, CA was dying of cancer. While she desperately wanted to see Pixar's Up, she could not be moved safely to a theater for health concerns.

Enter Pixar.

After being notified by the family's plight, Pixar sent out a representative with a DVD of the film to give Colby a private showing. As if th… Continue

In my last great revelation, I witnessed the upcoming cinematic tragedies in this Year of our Lord Two Thousand and Nine. I feel it is only fair and just to also name what excellent titles have been divined upon me. Light remains in this world, my children!

1) Star Trek

It hurts my credibility to name something that critics are already raving about, I admit. However, my hopes were already high before the surprise Austin screening with the second trailer. After the great betrayal by George Luca… Continue