Archive for April, 2007:

Celebrities – do we give a crap? »

In this day and age of constant information overload, we clearly hear too much, see too much, learn too much and ultimately are asked to care too much about our favorite celebrities. I think it’s important – nay, crucial – every so often to question just how much emotional investment that we really should be [...]

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A shocking disclosure! A plea for help! Restore freedom to the galaxy! »

I am a married guy with three little boys.
Maybe that’s not such a shocking disclosure, but it’s something I haven’t mentioned here on Burbanked before. For the first year or so of having this site, I had it in mind to retain a certain amount of anonymity, but as time stretched on, I’ve slowly whittled [...]

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Here’s the Fantastic Four…doing fantastically nothing. »

Today Peter at /film is featuring some 45+ photos from the upcoming sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and although the pictures are fine and all of that, they did cause animated question marks to appear above my head.
Now admittedly I never saw the first movie, so maybe this is a silly question. [...]

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Burbanked Video Postapalooza II – a little something for everyone. »

It’s been nearly a year since I’ve swept out the Burbanked video vault of items obscure, hilarious and downright icky. And just to make sure that I’m shamelessly pandering for page views reaching the widest possible demographic, I’ve tried to bring together clips from a pantheon of different genres:

Romance!The New York Times blog Screens provides [...]

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Prahka Lasa is not at all happy about this. »

Variety is reporting that Queen Latifah will headline a New Line remake of the 1984 comedy All of Me in which a wealthy but cold heiress is brought back from the dead to live for a while inside the body of her lawyer. Steve Martin and Lilly Tomlin starred in the original, but if you [...]

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When exactly was it that John McClane got super powers? »

I don’t know about you, but I was always a John McClane fan, right from the very beginning – the very day – when I left the theater in that hot July of 1988 in Upstate New York. I was hooked and forever changed. The seeds that Star Wars and Raiders had planted in me [...]

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The Rec wants to know your summer movie tournament picks. »

Once again, I’ve been startled out of my self-induced blogging malaise by something wonderful, shocking and/or disturbing.
Last week, Ray at the simply delightful blog The Rec posted a very clever contest in which he’s soliciting your picks for this summer’s movie box office champions via NCAA-like tournament brackets. What a frigging great idea! Here [...]

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