| Digital Deal: ‘Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country’ |
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Amazon is offering up Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country for purchase for only $3.99 through their Video On Demand service.
This digital deal is only for today, Thursday, October 7 until midnight PST, so grab it while you can. The digital version is regularly $9.99, and the 24-hour rental is $2.99. Visit the Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country product page to purchase the film. Released in 1991, this is the final film in the franchise to feature the entire original Star Trek cast, including William Shatner as Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as Spock. The film also saw the return of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan director Nicholas Meyer to the director’s chair (previous occupied by Nimoy for Star Trek III & IV and Shatner for Star Trek V). A very young, pre-Sex and the City Kim Cattrall has a major role as a Spock’s Vulcan protege, while Christopher Plummer stars as a Klingon. Synopsis: The crews of the Enterprise and the Excelsior must stop a plot to prevent a peace treaty between the Klingon Empire and the Federation.
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| ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ Adds Christopher Plummer To Cast
Actor Christopher Plummer (Up, The Last Station) has joined the cast of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the adaptation of the acclaimed novel of the same name by author Stieg Larsson. The book was first adapted in the 2009 Swedish film, which has received critical acclaim since its release. The movie tells the story of a journalist and a tech-savvy girl who are hired by a former CEO who wants them to solve a 40-year-old cold case involving the disappearance of his great niece. As their investigation moves forward, many deep and dark secrets about the family come to surface.
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| Geek Discussion: 82nd Annual Academy Award Winners & Losers!
As always, we like to have the results of the big awards ceremonies here for all to see, and tonight was the biggest of them all: the 82nd annual Academy Awards. This, the king of all awards shows, has faced much criticism the last few years, and their nominations this year did not help bring validity to their cause. Many of the films and actors were very deserving of their nominations, but many others were passed over in lieu of some big box office successes of questionable overall quality. And though they made a valiant effort to increase the excitement of the show with 10 Best Picture nominations, the end result was frustrating to we the film lovers of the world? In the end, some fantastic films and performances were justly awarded, and as always, there were a few that rubbed the wrong way. Continue on over to the other side to see all of the final results!
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| 82nd Academy Awards Nominations: ‘District 9′! Oh, And…’The Blind Side’!? |
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For we the movie fanatics of the world, the Academy Awards are just as exciting as the Super Bowl. Many of us throw or attend Oscar parties, and even go so far as to print out that ballot and lock our picks into place. Over the past few years, this and a lot of other awards shows have kind of lost their flare. It has become apparent that deciding nominees and voting for winners is not about who is the best and who is most deserving, but about what has the best side-story and what the popular names and titles are. This massive flaw is hard to swallow, and the appeal of the whole event is bordering on non-existent. To help bring more appeal to the game, the folks behind the Academy Awards chose to make a few changes in the format of the show. The biggest of these alterations was of course changing the amount of Best Picture nominees from 5 to a whopping 10, which meant that all of the deserving but not-so-traditional contenders (The Dark Knight) could get their chance to be underdog heroes. Continue reading on for more and to check out the full list of this year’s nominees!
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| Doom Discussion: 67th Annual Golden Globe Winners & Losers |
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Well, the 67th annual Golden Globe Awards were just handed out, and the winners and losers are now here for us to talk about. The popularity and integrity of the Globes has consistently declined over the years as it became apparent that those who were voting were typically voting based on popularity and not so much on those who are deserving (a trend among awards shows, it would seem). Still, these are the awards that set the table for the big one, the Academy Awards, and what we can start to expect when those are handed out. The show was actually better than it usually is. Ricky Gervais was a brilliant host, and even though he likely pissed a lot of people off with his edgy humor, it will be impossible to ignore the positive feedback you will hear from his job this evening. The awards played out as expected with a few pleasant surprises and the typical sickening winner from time-to-time. For those of you who missed the Golden Globes or just didn’t watch them, click on over to the other side to see a rundown of highlights to seek out on YouTube and low points to avoid. Also to be found below is the entire list of nominees, with the winner in each category in bold if you don’t care and just want to peek at who won.
...continue reading » Tags: Alec Baldwin, Avatar, Best Picture, Christopher Plummer, Clint Eastwood, Coraline, Courteney Cox, Daniel Day-Lewis, Dexter, District 9, Emily Blunt, George Clooney, Glenn Close, Golden Globes, Inglourious Basterds, James Cameron, Jeff Bridges, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kenneth Branagh, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Matt Damon, Meryl Streep, Michael C. Hall, morgan freeman, Neil Patrick Harris, Quentin Tarantino, Robert De Niro, Robert Downey Jr, Sherlock Holmes, Sigourney Weaver, Steve Carell, The Hangover, The Office, The Princess and the Frog, Tobey Maguire, Warner Bros, Where The Wild Things Are, William Hurt | |
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