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Star Trek To Roll Out Its Deadliest Weapon: Political Allegory
5:49AM Brian Moylan | Remember when sci-fi movies were about blowing up aliens and attacking Godzilla? Those days are gone, my friend. Thanks to Battlestar Galactica and District 9, the genre now exists to please the intelligentsia. The latest victim, the Star Trek sequel. More »
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The Transformers Sequel Is Loud, Obnoxious, And Loud
3:36AM Richard Lawson | As it lurches toward us, metal gears clanking and whirring like Larry King at a mixer, early reviews of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen come trickling in. The word? Basically it’s loud and garish and, worst of all, not fun. More »
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Paramount Not Catering Premieres From Whole Foods
12:53AM Richard Lawson | A story went around a while back that Paramount flubbed the catering at its Star Trek premiere , sending out for Whole Foods hummus instead. Not true, the studio says. Who can afford Whole Foods anymore? More »
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Roman Catholicism Beats Space Deism Every Time
1:17AM Richard Lawson | Religion on Earth just slightly trumped religion in space this weekend, though that should not, we repeat not, encourage any Scientologists that they’re gaining traction. For more on the stateside box office figures, click through. More »
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The Force Is Strong In Star Trek!
12:19AM Richard Lawson | To Infinity, and Beyond! I mean… um… Frak! Wait. No. I am… your father… Greedo… Bespin… Um… Oh, right! Star Trek prospered this weekend and will likely live long in theatres. More »
Small Screen
Timberlake-Hosted Saturday Night Live: Unsurprisingly Excellent
1:00AM Foster Kamer | Too bad the Correspondent’s Dinner will probably dominate any comedy talking points today, because last night’s cameo-littered Saturday Night Live was the funniest it’s been in a long, long time. More »
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Whole Foods: The Final Frontier
3:48AM Richard Lawson | Nikkie Finke heard a rumour that the catering company who was covering the big stateside Star Trek premiere party last night totally shit the bed and ended up serving upscale grocery store food. To celebrities! More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Swine Flu Can Stop A Spaceship, But Not Sex And The City
12:31AM Richard Lawson | News from the Sex and the City front, a new Disney comedy sounds annoying (and already done), swine flu does its worst damage yet, and another actor picks up a trident. More »
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An Early Star Trek Rave
7:30PM Ryan Tate | The Daily Mail took an early look at the new Star Trek prequel movie due out in May. “Effusive” does not quite describe the review: More »
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