The Hollywood Outsider

Episode 84 – The HO’s Behind the Curtain

Upcoming releases Olympus Has Fallen, Admission and The Croods; review of Oz the Great and Powerful; trailers for Kick-Ass 2, The Hangover 3 & Much Ado About Nothing; and Our From the Outside In topic this week: a listener suggested topic on if classic films would benefit or suffer from modern special effects. As always, we also bring you the …

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Kick-Ass 2 Red Band Trailer

Ok, wasn’t expecting this today – the red band Kick-Ass 2 trailer just hit online and it looks…well…Kick-Ass!  Hit-Girl and whoever the rest of them are return to join forces with Jim Carrey and…hell just watch it.   Get More: Morris Chesnut, John Leguizamo, Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jim Carrey, Movie Trailers, Movies Blog

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Episode 84 Trailers…

Here are the trailers we’re talking about on this week’s all new HO!  First up is Avenger’s director Joss Whedon’s take on the Shakespeare classic ‘Much Ado About Nothing’.  And 2nd?  Well 2nd we have the return of the worst people we all want to hand out with in ‘The Hangover 3’.  Take a look: Much Ado About Nothing The …

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Weekend Box Office Mar 8-10

              A LOT of people were off to see the Wizard this weekend as Oz the Great and Powerful opened with a golden $80.2 million over the weekend, including Thursday sneaks and midnight shows.  That’s the 3rd largest March opening ever, the largest opening this year, more than the rest of the Top 10 …

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New Releases – Oz, Dead Man Down & more…

Out today, as we discussed in Episode 82 of The HO, Oz the Great & Powerful is poised to trample all other newcomers. Sam Raimi’s inventive take on the classic Wizard of Oz has claimed all media space for the last week as the towering film poses to be the first great event film of the year.  Here are the …

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Episode 83 – The Last HO Slayer

Upcoming releases The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, The Call, Spring Breakers and Upside Down; reviews of Jack the Giant Slayer, The Last Exorcism II and 21 and Over; trailers for Disconnect and The Conjuring; and Our From the Outside In topic this week: We each create a trilogy theme from existing films. As always, we also bring you the latest in …

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Iron Man 3 Trailer

The full length Iron Man 3 trailer is finally here.  Now we have a good idea of what Tony Stark’s latest pic is really going to be about.  Since this takes place after the events of Avengers and since this is Robert Downey Jr’s presumably last full length ‘Iron Man’ film, it will be interesting to see where this one …

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