What did Lost co-executive Carlton Cuse think was "one of the best parts of season six"? If you guessed Claire's squirrel baby, you're right! What has to be considered the linchpin of this weekend's Lost auction (suggested bid: $300-500) gets its very own special feature on next week's season six DVD release, because it was either that or more Allison Janney footage. Click ahead to get a brief glimpse into the life of Squirrel Baby.
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It's been five years since Wes Craven last directed a film (the solid little Rachel McAdams thriller Red Eye), and sixteen years since he directed one that he wrote himself (Wes Craven's New Nightmare). The new My Soul to Take ends both of those droughts, but the new trailer isn't exactly thirst-quenching.
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Since the success of Mulholland Drive, there has been a sad dearth of beautiful actresses making out in trippy art-house dramas designed to make you question what's really real, man. Into that void comes Black Swan with a dramatic jeté.
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Finally, some Piranha 3D marketing you can enjoy without wanting to take a decontamination shower afterward! What stands a good chance of being the goriest movie of the summer opens Friday and that means Harvey Weinstein is only days away from planting the seeds for one of his patented, "Best Penis Being Gobbled and Spit Out in 3D" Oscar campaigns. Wait, huh?
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Eastbound and Down ended last season with Danny McBride's baseball washout, Kenny Powers, abandoning his true love after by leaving her at a gas station and heading to Mexico. Apparently, he just got there.
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Did you think Joaquin Phoenix's rap career was a smirky stunt? It may well have been, but now that a trailer's been released for I'm Still Here, the documentary Casey Affleck directed about Phoenix's Hollywood sabbatical, it appears the joke is on us.
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For a certain group of the population -- all television critics on Twitter, for instance -- the name Shawn Ryan means "Must See TV"; the veteran showrunner made The Shield for FX and, as such, has a lifetime pass. Good thing, then, since from the looks of his new FX series Terriers, he's going to need some slack.
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Because your weekend wouldn't be complete without yet another bit of Star Wars news, there's this: At Celebration V -- an "official Lucasfilm event celebrating all things Star Wars, produced by fans for fans" in Orlando, FL -- a deleted scene from Return of the Jedi has surfaced. Have you ever wondered how Luke got that flashy green lightsaber?
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You don't see a lot of movies set in Pittsburgh, huh? Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys and, um, that's about it. (Thank goodness for the books of Michael Chabon, right?) So three cheers (and rivers) for Paul Haggis' The Next Three Days, the movie destined to put Pittsburgh on the Hollywood map... by giving Russell Crowe and Liam Neeson some terrible accents.
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When Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway got together in Brokeback Mountain, there were a few issues: Jake kept disappearing off on "fishing trips," Thanksgiving dinner took forever, and even in her most poignant moments, Hathaway simply couldn't keep the old-lady lipstick off her teeth. Things may go better for their reteaming in Ed Zwick's Love and Other Drugs if this trailer is any indication, because at least they've got Viagra on their side now.
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As you know, Friday usually brings an abundance of video riches to Movieline, including chief film critic Stephanie Zacharek's on-camera movie reviews. Today, however, Stephanie is doubling up! And why not, considering the exoticness of the pairing: Eat Pray Love and The Expendables (er, sorry, fellas: The Expendables and Eat Pray Love), the estrogen ebb and the testosterone flow for a weekend when anything goes. Much like this video review, in fact. Take it away, Stephanie!
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The key tenet to Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner's best-selling book series Freakonomics is that incentive makes the world go 'round. So what are the incentives for you to see a documentary based their writings? Well, there are six actually: Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me), Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight), Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side), Seth Gordon (King of Kong), and Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (Jesus Camp).
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How do you know it's almost the end of the summer? Because the trailer for How Do You Know has arrived. The question mark-less James L. Brooks romantic comedy -- featuring a murderer's row cast of Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson and Jack Nicholson -- doesn't hit theaters until Christmas, but that doesn't mean its too early to start the hype machine on the first film from the Oscar-winner in six years. Besides, it already looks better than Spanglish.
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American remakes of foreign films have become so commonplace that even a statute of limitations barely exists anymore; Le Dîner de Cons -- the French film that Dinner for Schmucks was based on -- came out in 1998. So by those standards, Zhang Yimou's Chinese conversion of the Coen Brothers' Blood Simple -- A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop -- feels positively warranted. After all, it has been 26 years since the original came out.
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We at Movieline know a thing or two about the tsunami of bile that accompanies even the slightest dissent from the cult of Inception -- the taunting, abusive, bullying, emphatic hate ignited by a negative review. And then along came Jackson Murphy, a/k/a "Lights Camera Jackson," an 11-year-old online movie critic who dared to take his own Inception disappointment live on CBS. All I can say is, "Welcome to the club, Jackson!" And also: "Who the hell are these people?"
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