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New Pixar Movie Trailer: Monsters University
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Previously at PJ Lifestyle on Pixar:
The Pixar Canon: 4 Misses And 8 Hits
No Redheaded Stepchild: Brave Innovations Pay Off for Pixar
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Walt Disney: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff
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New Teaser Trailer: Star Trek Into Darkness
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VIDEO: New Trailer for Oz: The Great and Powerful
via Watch The Full Trailer For Sam Raimi’s OZ: THE GREAT AND POWERFUL | Badass Digest.
I’m pretty sure I’m down for this movie. I’ve been hesitant, but I really dig the new trailer. While I don’t actually love the aesthetic, it’s vivid and dazzling and will look wonderful in 3D, not that muddled garbage we saw in Alice in Wonderland. I’m a big fan of Sam Raimi’s goofy sense of humor, and all of the actors seem to be having a great time here.
I never know what to think about James Franco – that guy is such a weird mystery to me – but he has a naturally self-pleased, humbug air about him that will serve him well as Oscar Diggs, the young Wizard of Oz. And he’s in turns manipulated and assisted by three of the loveliest and most talented witches possible, with Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz and Mila Kunis turning in performances as Glinda, Evanora and Theodora, respectively.
Also, Zach Braff plays a flying monkey.
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VIDEO: New Hobbit Trailer
Iron Man 3 Trailer: ‘Some People Call Me a Terrorist, I Consider Myself a Teacher.’
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VIDEO: New Hobbit Trailer
hat tip: Buzzfeed
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Atheist Lawsuit Against World Trade Center Cross Makes Me Want to Scream
Two days after September 11, 2001, a construction worker discovered amidst the rubble of one of the collapsed World Trade Center towers two intersecting steel beams that became known as the World Trade Center cross.
The cross immediately became a symbol of faith, comfort, and hope to the rescuers who presided over the massive recovery and to the nation at large.
The WTC cross is now considered an icon and currently stands as the emotional centerpiece of the National September 11 Memorial.
Until I started researching this piece, I was unaware that there was a movie produced in 2007 about the miraculous WTC cross. Here is the trailer of The Cross and the Towers by John Schneider.
An organization called American Atheists filed a lawsuit in July 2011, after the WTC cross was moved back to its permanent home on the memorial grounds.
Apparently those two offensive steel beams — which happened to collapse in the shape of a cross — are, according to Edwin Kagin, the group’s legal director, “a violation of both federal and New York law in that public funds will be used to establish the Christian religion on public land.”
Adding to that argument is the organization’s president, David Silverman, who describes the cross as “a clear instance of a violation of the separation of church and state in its extreme.”
If you visit the American Atheists web site, be sure to read their account of the legal fight. What I found especially exasperating is that the WTC cross is repeatedly referred to as “the girder set.”
Fortunately, this past August, officials at the 9/11 memorial museum started to fight back by taking the necessary legal steps to have the lawsuit thrown out of court. The museum’s argument is that it is an independent non-profit organization and not a government agency. But more importantly, “the cross is an artifact and not a religious symbol.”
Actually, one could argue that is it both and that that is precisely what makes the WTC cross so significant.
VIDEO: Trailer for Sci-Fi Epic Cloud Atlas
Hat tip: Movies with Butter.
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