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Generation Kill writer Evan Wright has signed up to script Cocaine Cowboys.
The Dark Knight is doing some incredible business, now outgrossing the entire domestic run of Batman Begins.
Robot Chicken are going to a galaxy far, far away again.
Here’s an interview with the Luna Brothers.
Is The Devil’s Advocate a modern cult classic?
Footage from Tron 2 has been revealed at Comic-Con.
DiS talks to The Hold Steady, as all should be given the brilliance of their new record.
They also chat to Noah and the Whale, a charming upcoming group.
Aaron Eckhart talks to The Guardian.
Songs to slack to.
Not much love for the return of CSS. Time passed?
Neil Young is all about high-resolution sound.
How can print adapt to the digital age?
Most romantic gestures in movies, in list form.
Russell Brand is taking over the VMAs.
The second season of Mad Men is reviewed here.
Here’s a 1990 profile of Barack Obama from Vanity Fair.
Keitel joins Life on Mars.
A coffee table and a learning experience.
Is porn star Buck Angel a new feminist hero.
Robocop is officially coming back, with Aronofsky in the hot-seat.
Season 3 of Dexter is also being previewed at Comic-Con.
So is Alan Ball’s True Blood, the new HBO vampire deal.
Twitch has a review of Death Race with Jason Statham.
Tim Burton has found his Alice to venture into Wonderland.
Fiddy is pissed with Taco Bell.
Jim DeRogatis shows some praise for Canasta.
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JoBlo has some pics from Australia, Baz Luhrmann’s new epic undertaking.
Lil’ Emma Watson has signed on to Napoleon, replacing Scarlett Johannson.
EW talks to Jason Segel about nudity.
Brett Ratner is attached to The Incredible Shrinking Man… if there are any fans of this series out there, I’m sorry.
Battlestar’s Ronald D Moore is to write a sci-fi trilogy for UA.
A red-band trailer for Hamlet 2 has turned up.
CHUD has a video interview with Bill Hader.
Details are leaking on Dollhouse, the new project from Joss Whedon.
Milo is being transferred into comic-form.
Tisdale is remaking Teen Witch.
The AV Club urges all and sunder to see Harold and Maude.
It also salutes Darren Aronofsky’s Pi and has an interview with Morgan Spurlock.
David Denby relates his thoughts on Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Peter Bradshaw gives his on Happy Go-Lucky.
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So this is post number 300. Yay! Puns this week are Ingmar Bergman films.
Top Story: The first Watchmen video journal has turned up. A new one is going to be released every month for the next year. This instalment focuses on the set design team as they attempt to recreate David Gibbons’ gauzy vision of New York. Look pretty encouraging.
JoBlo has a video of Maggie Gyllenhaal in The Dark Knight.
Uwe Boll says it would take one million signatures to stop him making movies.
More pics from Iron Man have turned up.
Leslie Mann has joined Jim Carrey on Philip Morris.
EW has a list of Charlton Heston’s greatest roles. All my votes for Touch of Evil, still among the greatest films ever made.
CHUD has a video interview with Russell Brand.
Toni Collette has joined the new Sam Mendes project.
A first look at Pixar’s WALL-E has turned up.
More hype for The Spirit every day.
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The AV Club has an interview with Kimberly Peirce.
New York Magazine has a piece on John Waters.
RICKROLLING!! The best just, like, thing ever!!!
Obama. Pitt. Jolie. Clinton. It’s all relative.
Slate has a review of the new season of The Hills.
Bat For Lashes is going to open for Radiohead.
Tina Fey spies a ratings jump for 30 Rock. All she needs is a little added Britney.
Kristin Davis is having such a bad year.
Is Jamie Lynn Spears getting married? Already? Competitive family…
Entertainment Weekly has a first peek at the Secret Invasion book and an interview with Brian Michael Bendis.
The Field Day line-up is looking good.
Richie Sambora has been drunk driving!
Red Belt doesn’t look good at all. But it’s written by David Mamet. Oh, the decisions!!
A Place To Bury Strangers have done a session for Daytrotter.
Defamer is becoming a little aggravated by the viral marketing for Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Link and Roll All Nite!!!
Kiss songs this week…
Inappropriate funeral songs in list form.
The AV Club also joins the rest of the world in loving Rez HD.
Unlikely heroes on television from The Guardian following the premiere in the UK of Mad Men.
Can Hillary scare you into voting for her?
Hell Angels tried to kill Jagger in 1969?! Yet no one has tried after the solo albums…
Hillary Clinton has gained the ringing endorsement of Jack Nicholson.
Zefron poses with Richard Linklater as they together create Me & Orson Welles.
PopSugar UK has a preview of Forgetting Sarah Marshall which, of course, stars Jason Segel. Once, he did this, and it was good.
Michael Chabon contributes an essay to The New Yorker.
Obama’s less seasoned campaigners are holding their own in Texas.
I say, where the flip is Vicki Iseman?
I love Marion Cotillard, but this is not good.
Here’s two tracks from Wilco on SNL.
McCain’s run has taken a little stumble at the first.
Tim Allen is directing a film.
Sam’s Top 11 TV Shows of the Year
Television. The ol’ Goggle Box. The Tube. Yes, it’s time to celebrate the electronic hearth in the corner of the room which used to give us our information and still maintains its place as the one piece of art the Americans are just so, so much better at.
Without any further rambling, any further chatter, here are the eleven most notable of television shows I have seen this year and, at the close, a brief list of those I have not seen or could not make space for in the list.
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This week’s puns are going to be bad.
The AV Club is all with the 21s again in its list of full-lengths which could use a trim.
PopMatters discusses the worth of post-Cyberpunk.
Brian De Palma talks Redacted and Iraq with Salon.
Marvel has opened its back catalogue to the digital world.
The San Francisco Chronicle has some ideas on how to make Reaper a little more interesting.
Pitchfork interviews The Hold Steady and Art Brut.
Milo. No Top. Happy Beth. Here.
Ex-Apprentice contestant Katie Hopkins is the latest to be dropped into the jungle…
Extracts from Russell Brand’s autobiography are currently gracing the pages of The Guardian.
Also… The Mighty Boosh is back on BBC3 on Thursday! WOOOO!
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