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Mutant Army, Pvt. 1st Class
17 December 2009 8:00 AM, PST
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Bryan Singer dropped a fanboy X-bomb on the Avatar red carpet last night, revealing to IGN that his first project after completing big-budget fairy tale Jack the Giant Killer will be a return the X-Men franchise he launched. X-Men: First Class -- what he calls an "origins picture" -- was written by Chuck/The O.C./Gossip Girl creator Josh Schwartz. Could X-Men: Dangerous Minds, about a sexy teacher breaking through to her remedial class of mutant thugs be far behind? Mmmprobably. [IGN]
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Watch This: 'Dangerous Wands' Brings Hermione to an American Hogwarts
16 December 2009 1:32 PM, PST
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What if Hermione Granger left her familiar homeland of England to come teach at severely neglected school of witchcraft and wizardry in inner city America? Can you even imagine a Hogwarts with no spell books and, gasp, only one hippogriff? Or how about a member of Dumbledore's Army getting in way over her head? It would surely be a magical story of a teacher who becomes the student, culminating, no doubt, in some kind of Quidditch tournament to save the rec center.
I love me a good spoof trailer for a fake movie, and the new funny making its way around the Intertubes is CollegeHumor's trailer for Dangerous Wands. It's a brilliant and moving embrace of the world of Harry Potter that picks apart how formulaic Teacher Breaks Through to Neglected Students films are. And, this being a delightful riff on Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds, it even features a
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- Peter Hall
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'Dangerous Wands' joins the vaunted ranks of great 'Harry Potter' spoofs
16 December 2009 11:30 AM, PST
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Sometimes, the best defense against the Dark Arts is to care. If you can rap, you can cast spells! Yet another installment in our ongoing efforts to compile all amazing Harry Potter ephemera:
As someone who has seen the movie Dangerous Minds literally dozens of times (I've even read My Darling, My Hamburger), this makes me outrageously happy. The soundtrack might not top "Amish Paradise," but what does?
Accio comments and reactions, PopWatchers!
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- Margaret Lyons
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Movie Review - 'Precious'
3 December 2009 11:04 PM, PST
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Precious
Starring Gabby Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, and Mariah Carey
Directed by Lee Daniels
Rated R
Texas-based singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith doesn't have much in common with the characters in Precious, but while watching the film I was nevertheless reminded over and over again her song "It's a Hard Life Wheverever You Go":
It's a hard life, it's a hard life, it's a very hard life
It's a hard life wherever you go
If we poison our children with hatred
Then the hard life is all that they'll know
And there ain't no place in this world for these kids to go
We don't need to see this story unfold to know many of the particulars. Precious (newcomer Gabby Sidibe) is 16, pregnant with
her second child, both the result of incestuous rape by her father. Her mother (Mo'Nique) blames Precious for the pregnancies,
and blames her for just about everything else.
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- Colin Boyd
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Scrubs Review: "Our First Day of School"
2 December 2009 2:23 PM, PST
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Scrubs debuted with its ninth season premiere and new medical school format last night and like it or not, Scrubs 2.0 kept the same name, but not much else.
There's still a definitely feel of Scrubs, especially with J.D., Cox, Turk, Kelso and The Todd still wandering the halls of Sacred Heart. We even got to see pregnant Elliot, who like Zach Braff, has only signed on for six episodes the season.
However, the new teaching aspects and focus on the new students, in particular the new narrator, Lucy, have have made it clear the show has changed. We certainly enjoyed the half hour, but whether show will survive once Braff has finished up his six episodes will have to be seen.
There's certainly enough strong supporting characters in the new Scrubs cast that we hope so and as the second bonus half hour thrown in last night proved, there's
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- eric@iscribelimited.com (The Barnacle)
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'Scrubs' review: Same characters, new-ish show
30 November 2009 5:17 PM, PST
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"Scrubs" begins its ninth season on Tuesday, and both ABC and the show's creator, Bill Lawrence, are encouraging us to think of the show as new in all but its title. There's a new setting, several new regulars and even a revamped opening credit sequence.
The transition -- established characters like J.D. (Zach Braff), Turk (Donald Faison) and Dr. Cox (John C. McGinley) are now teaching at a medical school -- is an admirably honest attempt by Lawrence and Co. to deal with the show being renewed after airing what was for all intents and purposes a series finale episode last spring. And there are moments in Tuesday's two-episode premiere (it's at 9 p.m. Et on ABC) that are quite good.
The whole thing, though, feels just a little bit awkward. If you are -- like me -- enough of a "Scrubs" fan that you just enjoy spending time with these characters,
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Lff: Time To Grow Up
26 October 2009 2:21 PM, PDT
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Dave here, still at the London Film Festival, and apologising profusely for his absence - it's been a busy few days of film, and having an hour staring at Julianne Moore and ten seconds staring at Eva Green. (Both are as stunning as you've been led to expect.) There have been some big names and some big films the past few days, and so this is a triple-threat of things-you'll-actually-have-heard-of - and all this without The White Ribbon, thoughts on which are lingering on my computer, waiting for me to approve of them. For now, you'll have to make do...
By far the loudest applause I've yet experienced at the festival was given at the end of Precious. The film's status as a crowd-pleaser seemed odd to me - granted I'd avoided as much press on it as I could, but I knew the basic story. It seems obvious in
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- Dave
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Awesome Website Alert: Dangerous Minds
10 September 2009 4:15 PM, PDT
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Dangerous Minds is one of my favorite new sites. It's the brainchild of Richard Metzger, the brilliant Brit once behind Disinfo.com pictured at left, and Tara McGinley, a costume designer/stylist (and Metzger's wife). Although the site covers everything from sex to pop culture and "kooks," my favorite is naturally the movie section.
Metzger and friends dig up and dissect the obscure, the weird, and the fantastic. Just a sampling of the website turns up info on an art show featuring "production drawings" and "commissioned work" from Alejandro Jodorowsky's aborted Dune adaptation featuring artists like H.R. Giger, Moebius, and Chris Foss, as well as a deep-cut discussion of the Mexican midnight movie staple Coffin Joe, which Metzger describes as "a rant-prone Nietzschean Übermensch with a top hat, cape and excessively long fingernails." Seriously, can you pass that up?
Sure, some of these movies are things you might never want to see,
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- Jenni Miller
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Culture Warrior: Independent Music/Independent Film
31 August 2009 3:26 PM, PDT
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The relationship between pop music and popular film has been a fruitful one. When popular tracks started to accompany the soundtrack of mainstream films regularly in the mid-late 1960s, the music was often used in the context of the film to reflect the aural preferences particular to a specific counterculture. Movies like The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, Easy Rider and A Hard Day’s Night integrated top 40 hits or artists into their film not only to help sell the film to a broad or specific audience (which proved especially effective when marketing to young people), but to tie that film’s narrative and themes to the counterculture that such music allegedly speaks for.
Songs featured in The Graduate and Midnight Cowboy were written specifically for their films, but by artists already associated with these social and aural movements (Simon and Garfunkel and Harry Nilsson, respectively). The existence of Top 40 radio made it rather easy to identify which songs
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- Landon Palmer
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"You wanna tell me what this is all about?"
11 August 2009 4:57 PM, PDT
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Everyone together now...As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life
And realize there's nothing left.
'Cause I've been blasting and laughing so long
That even my momma thinks that my mind has gone. Why aren't you singing along?
I guess you can't,
I guess you won't,
I guess you front,
That's why I know this post is out of luck, foo!
"Gangsta's Paradise" the song (Total Classic)
"Gangsta's Paradise" the video (Pfeiffer Porn)
Dangerous Minds opened 14 years ago, today. Throw candy bars to your best students and try to look 'whitebread' cool in a leather jacket in its honor.
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- NATHANIEL R
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Sydney School Makes Students Learn Good
19 July 2009 9:18 PM, PDT
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Some schools can get bad reputations. Take the school from Dangerous Minds, it's unlikely to be receiving an influx of applications right now. Or St Trinian's - also not a place you'd recommend to prospective learners. However if it's a film school that you're after, and one that will give you the best opportunity to move into working in the business, look no further than the International Film School Sydney.
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Discuss: From Big Screens to Boob Tubes
6 July 2009 3:02 PM, PDT
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This week marks the premiere of the first of three film-to-television adaptations that will hit our TV's this year. ABC Family will kick things off on Tuesday with their spin of 10 Things I Hate About You, and in the fall, two will follow -- NBC's Parenthood and ABC's Eastwick (based, of course, on The Witches of Eastwick). In honor of this trio of shows, the La Times has outlined not only the details of the new programs, but also the hits and misses that already litter television history.
The piece notes a few from recent memory, like The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Buffy, and The Dead Zone, but also notes some doozies that you might not remember. Did you ever catch Ferris Bueller co-starring Jennifer Aniston? Dangerous Minds? Baby Talk (an abysmal remake of Look Who's Talking)? One glaring omission -- especially in the wake of Nia Vardalos' return to
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- Monika Bartyzel
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Funny People Launches Fictional Sitcom Viral Campaign
2 June 2009 3:45 AM, PDT
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The promotional campaign for the Judd Apatow comedy Funny People has begun, starting with a viral campaign for the fictional NBC sitcom Yo, Teach! -- released on the NBC website to appear like a real show.
It's a hybrid of Dangerous Minds and '80s sitcom Head of the Class, and stars fictional actor Mark Steven Jackson (Jason Schwartzman) as a motivational teacher of troubled youth. Enjoy a scene from the "first season" of Yo, Teach!
And now go behind-the-scenes of Yo, Teach! with Schwartzman's Mark Steven Jackson.
Next Showing: Funny People opens July 31
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- Ryan Gowland
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Judd Apatow Launches Funny People Viral Marketing Campaign with Fake Jason Schwartzman Sitcom
29 May 2009 10:12 AM, PDT
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Watching the clips online makes you think twice: Is this for real? Perhaps it's because the new, Jason Schwartzman-starring (but very fake) sitcom Yo, Teach! pulls heavily from a mixture of Saved By The Bell, Boy Meets World, and Dangerous Minds in the teacher-tries-to-get-through-to-struggling-kids motif, and the gags therein. Ah, but we cry foul, Judd Apatow! Apparently the comedy director launched these clips with the folks at NBC.com as if it were a real show, when in fact they serve as a viral-marketing tool for his highly anticipated summer comedy, Funny People.
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NBC Kicks Off Viral Marketing for Funny People
28 May 2009 11:37 AM, PDT
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Judd Apatow's latest film Funny People will be released in theaters on July 31 and the viral marketing campaign has already begun. NBC has launched a new viral site for the TV series within the movie, Yo Teach!, which stars Jason Schwartzman's character Mark Taylor Jackson.
On the site you can see a small video clip from one of the episodes and photos as well. When we were on the set of the Apatow film, Schwartzman described his character's show as, "somewhere between Dangerous Minds and The Cable Guy."
to take a look at our report from the set and to take a look at this new viral marketing site.
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Watch This: Jason Schwartzman's TV Show, 'Yo Teach'
28 May 2009 10:15 AM, PDT
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Hey, did you know that Jason Schwartzman was starring in a new NBC show called Yo Teach, about a teacher with a big heart who goes all Stand and Deliver/Dangerous Minds-like on the inner-city troublemakers in his class? I'm lying, of course -- Schwartzman isn't starring in any real TV show; instead, this is just a taste of the first piece of viral marketing for Judd Apatow's Funny People, which, because it stars actors playing popular actors, is filled with all sorts of fake movies and TV shows, like Yo Teach. (Read about some of the fake movies within the movie.)
Funny People stars Adam Sandler as a comedian-turned-crappy high concept actor who mentors a younger up-and-coming comedian (Seth Rogen), all while struggling to beat cancer and win back the girl (Leslie Mann) that got away. Jason Schwartzman stars as one of Rogen's pals, an egocentric TV actor.
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Winehouse Offered a Movie Role
14 January 2009 2:27 AM, PST
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What’s with movie bosses handing out roles to messed up British singers who can’t even get their lives together? Lily Allen is reportedly up for a part in Dr. Who, and now Amy Winehouse is being considered for a movie role. Way to reward them for being complete screw ups!
Amy has allegedly been sent a script from Universal, and they’re interested in having her play a music teacher at a problem school in an upcoming film.
As soon as we heard this, we thought….Dangerous Minds remake, minus the hot Michelle Pfieffer? And that’s exactly
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Winehouse 'offered first movie role'
14 January 2009 1:28 AM, PST
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Amy Winehouse has reportedly been offered her first movie role. The 'Back To Black' singer would play the part of a music teacher at a problem school, according to The Sun. "The movie is a bit like Michelle Pfeiffer's film Dangerous Minds. Playing a music teacher will allow Amy to use her singing skills," revealed an insider. However, the star has reportedly been warned that she has to continue cleaning up her act if she wants the part. "She (more)
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