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...course, another movie that fanboys were panting about at Comic-Con was last summer's Snakes on a Plane, which New Line Cinema pumped to the Web audience but declined to screen for mainstream critics. "We thought it was a stupid title, but we wanted to see it," says Garabedian. "There was swearing, snakes biting into breasts." But the fanboys are outsiders for a reason: the rest of America doesn't always share their taste. And the poor performance of Grindhouse, the double feature from two fanboy deities, directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, shows that fanboy love...
...other development contributing to the grist shortage is, of course, the Internet in general and blogs in particular. This is clearly the Blog Election: four years ago, blogs were not yet omnipresent, and four years from now, the mainstream media may not be as terrorized by them...
...June, LaBeouf will swan-dive into the mainstream in the usual way, as the voice of the lead penguin in an animated movie, Surf's Up. He'll also be the human star as robots wage war on Earth in the oversize action flick Transformers. But next year it's the really big leagues: he has just been tapped to play a key role in Indiana Jones 4 alongside Harrison Ford. Oh, and soon he'll turn 21 and be old enough to share a toast at all those premieres...
...there were doubters. Reeve was just one person--and a wealthy one too, who could afford the best care. In the 2 1/2 years since his death, however, locomotor training has gone mainstream, with at least 17 hospitals and rehab centers in the U.S. and a handful in Canada and Europe offering it. So far, the patients who have undergone the therapy number only in the hundreds, but about a third of them have been 21 or younger, a fact that is not only helping doctors spare the very patients in whom loss of mobility hits the hardest but also...
...other Hollywood sachems, the ascent of the fanboy critics must be like manna falling from above. They rose from the culture they speak to, they're as obsessed with horror films and special effects as the industry currently is, and they love nearly everything they see. Whereas the mainstream critics--they're so damn critical...