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‘Lost’ ‘09: Everyone Gets a Gun!

9:34AM Kyle Buchanan | Just when we’d managed to shake our uncontrollable addiction to Lostpedia, brand-new footage from the upcoming Season 5 of Lost has hit the internet. What do we learn (after an interminable recap of previous storylines) about the island hijinks we’ll be seeing come January 2009? Sayid gets a gun! Hurley gets a gun! Kate gets a gun! Probably even the baby gets a gun! As is par for the course with Lost, the footage only raises new questions; specifically, where is the return of Michelle Rodriguez? And, perhaps most importantly, is Jack’s missing chest hair still in the clutches of the smoke monster? [The Lost Vault] More »

‘Crystal Skull’ Trailer Released: Pretty Much Your Father’s Indiana Jones

3:38AM Seth | We have a vivid memory of attending opening day of The Phantom Menace back in 1999: As the lights dimmed, one Darth Maul groupie–who appeared to achieve his ornate facial markings through the liberal application of drugstore lipstick and black shoe polish–shouted “16 years!!!” to appreciative cheers. What followed, of course, was not just unworthy of the 16 year wait since the previous Star Wars installment, but probably not even worth the two hours it took to sit through the movie itself. You could read it on the disappointed faces of each and every man, woman, and Ewok filing out of the theater that night, some of whom are to this day traumatized by the patois-spouting duck-ape called Jar Jar Binks. More »