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Something to keep in mind: If you play a mean pinball. then Elton John will despise you.
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BEIRUT: Sales have jumped as high as 80 percent at some U.S. shawarma joints due to a reference in a scene from the popular movie “The Avengers,” reported TMZ.
The scene takes place with Iron Man (played by Robert Downey Jr.) and Captain America (Chris Evans) discussing visiting a nearby shop to try shawarma.
“Have you ever tried shawarma?” Iron Man asks Captain America. “There’s a shawarma joint about two blocks from here. I don’t know what it is, but I want to try it.”
After the film ends and the credits role, another scene shows the super-hero team silently eating shawarmas.
According to TMZ, Ro-Ro’s Chicken, a Hollywood shawarma shop, has had sales shoot up over 80 percent due to the movie’s allude to shawarma.
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The Cabin in the Woods Disembowels the Slasher Film
Stop me if you’ve seen this one: A handful of attractive young folks representing immediately recognizable types—the good girl, the sexy girl, the jock, the decent guy, the stoner—plan a weekend of partying at a remote cabin in the woods. When they arrive, though, something timeless and implacable begins stalking and brutally slaughtering them one by one. Liquor-fueled rounds of “truth or dare” and displays of nubile flesh give way to screaming and running and bleeding and dying.
On second thought, don’t stop me. Even if you’ve seen this one—even if you’ve seen it over and over again—you haven’t seen this one, this The Cabin in the Woods. Produced by Joss Whedon, who also co-wrote with director (and longtime Whedonite) Drew Goddard, the movie is a delightful demolition of the horror genre, a tale that subverts not only its own terrors, but those of pretty much every scary movie you’ve ever seen. Why do the protagonists of these films always choose the worst moment and locale to have sex? Why do they split up when it’s evident they should stick together? The Cabin in the Woods at last offers answers.
This is a movie best seen with a minimum of foreknowledge, so I’ll spoil as little as possible. (I’d strongly recommend avoiding the trailer, which reveals a good deal more than I will.) Suffice to say that there are two interwoven narratives taking place at once: the one in the woods with the kids (among them Kristen Connolly and Thor’s Chris Hemsworth); and another, at a secret bunker of the military-industrial complex, where two beleaguered company men (Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford), along with a large cadre of technicians, accountants, interns, and various other drones, are hard at work, doing—well, if I told you what they were doing, someone (not me) would presumably have to kill you.
Read more. [Image: Lionsgate]
A message from this Joss Whedon fanboy to Tumblr: The Cabin in the Woods is excellent.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2fpswegQE1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
The Cabin in the Woods Disembowels the Slasher Film
Stop me if you’ve seen this one: A handful of attractive young folks representing immediately recognizable types—the good girl, the sexy girl, the jock, the decent guy, the stoner—plan a weekend of partying at a remote cabin in the woods. When they arrive, though, something timeless and implacable begins stalking and brutally slaughtering them one by one. Liquor-fueled rounds of “truth or dare” and displays of nubile flesh give way to screaming and running and bleeding and dying.
On second thought, don’t stop me. Even if you’ve seen this one—even if you’ve seen it over and over again—you haven’t seen this one, this The Cabin in the Woods. Produced by Joss Whedon, who also co-wrote with director (and longtime Whedonite) Drew Goddard, the movie is a delightful demolition of the horror genre, a tale that subverts not only its own terrors, but those of pretty much every scary movie you’ve ever seen. Why do the protagonists of these films always choose the worst moment and locale to have sex? Why do they split up when it’s evident they should stick together? The Cabin in the Woods at last offers answers.
This is a movie best seen with a minimum of foreknowledge, so I’ll spoil as little as possible. (I’d strongly recommend avoiding the trailer, which reveals a good deal more than I will.) Suffice to say that there are two interwoven narratives taking place at once: the one in the woods with the kids (among them Kristen Connolly and Thor’s Chris Hemsworth); and another, at a secret bunker of the military-industrial complex, where two beleaguered company men (Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford), along with a large cadre of technicians, accountants, interns, and various other drones, are hard at work, doing—well, if I told you what they were doing, someone (not me) would presumably have to kill you.
Read more. [Image: Lionsgate]
A message from this Joss Whedon fanboy to Tumblr: The Cabin in the Woods is excellent.
Warner Bros. resurrecting The Dark Tower?
The Dark Tower has long been linked to a possible big-screen adaptation, but it seems that Warner Bros are now close to agreeing a deal to bring Stephen King’s mammoth fantasy to the cinemagoing public…
Hmm. I approve.
The Lorax speaks for the trees, but David Edelstein must speak for The Lorax.
For a good adaptation of The Lorax, here’s the 1972 TV special.
“He has his father’s eyes.”
The Force is gone with this one: Why 3D will do little to improve Star Wars
A long time ago, in this very galaxy, Star Wars was a great film. Sadly, after his glorious pinnacle of creativity, George Lucas started a downward slide and ended up hacking away at his own legacy. (Illustration by Steve Murray)
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CF: Do you think he was aware of this special something that he had?
SB: No. That’s why he had the special something. Exactly because he wasn’t aware of it. If he had been aware of it, it wouldn’t have worked. He was just himself. He liked the ocean and he liked his boat and he liked his wife…he had four wives, but his last wife he liked the best.
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Some of the best 5 minutes of film ever.
“Half-way through making The Great Dictator I began receiving alarming messages from United Artists … but I was determined to go ahead, for Hitler must be laughed at.” - Charlie Chaplin
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Star Wars Uncut: Director’s Cut
The Story:
In 2009, thousands of Internet users were asked to remake “Star Wars: A New Hope” into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted. Within just a few months SWU grew into a wild success. The creativity that poured into the project was unimaginable.
