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What is the greatest b-movie of all time?

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Tenacious Cee: Black and Green practice Kung Fu

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As summer nears, so do the releases of animated films featuring pretty darn cute creatures, like the wide-eyed WALL•E and chubby Kung Fu Panda. But Jack Black and Cee-Lo Green are one-uppping the robot film in the name of martial arts bears everywhere. How are they doing it? With a cover of Carl Douglas' 1974 karaoke staple "Kung Fu Fighting," of course....  read more

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Werner Herzog and Nicolas Cage to update Bad Lieutenant

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At this point, legendary German director Werner Herzog has become the Bill Brasky of the film world. Tales about Herzog are always tall, but never exaggerated: Werner Herzog once cooked and ate his own shoe after losing a bet. Werner Herzog once was shot during an interview, and continued on with the interview. Werner Herzog once ate a whole cake before his friends could tell him there was a stripper in it. Werner Herzog once remade Abel Ferrara's ultra-violent, cult-film Bad Lieutenant, and cast none other than Nicolas Cage as the leading role....  read more

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Dance your cares away: Fraggle Rock movie in the works

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Just when the children of the '80s think they're safe, Hollywood throws another banana peel on the trash heap. The one and only, all-knowing, talking trash heap! As unbelievable as it may sound, Variety reported on Monday that the Weinstein Co. is turning Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock into a live-action flick—and a musical, to boot....  read more

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Michael Moore to start work on Fahrenheit 9/11 sequel

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Michael Moore plans to dip his brush into the pot of political dissent and dissatisfaction once again. The Oscar-winning director and poster child for poli-docs is making a sequel to his hit documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 for Overture Films and Paramount Vantage, Variety reports. The film, referred to informally in some circles as Fahrenheit 9/11 ½, will start where Moore left off four years ago, examining the time since, and consequences of, the Bush administrations policies after eight years. In the first film, Moore presented a caustic look at President Bush’s handling of the Sept. 11 attacks and the war on...  read more

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