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Cloverfield [BLU-RAY] (Paramount Home Entertainment, 6.3.2008) Disguised under deliberately goofy, yet deliciously edible-sounding, aliases such as Cheese and Slusho, Matt Reeves' Cloverfield was produced and rushed into theaters under an equally appetizing shroud of secrecy. From last year's incredibly elusive Super Bowl ad to the film's viral marketing campaign, Cloverfield had everybody scratching their heads and drooling in anticipation. Aside from the as-yet untitled title and the Blair Witch-ian visual style, the film's biggest appeal was the enigmatic creature who was last (un)seen hurling the decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty onto the crowded streets of New York City. All we knew about the mysterious beast was that it was big and angry. Now that the highy-anticipated project has come and gone, one question has fortunately been answered: Cloverfield was a major success. (continued)

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This Radar Online report about the National Enquirer running fake Anna Nicole Smith body-bag photos is icky and surreal. If once a magazine indulges itself in running faked Photoshop images, very soon the editors will come to think little of running intrusive and sometime sloppily reported stories about celebrities; and from that to paying low-life sources and running photos of celebs in their out-of-shape bodies at the beach, and finally to general obnoxiousness and tackiness.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on February 28, 2007 at 12:15 PM

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wayne76 says ...

I sure would hate for the tabloids to lose their standards.

What dumbfuck would pick this up, and have any kind of reaction to the photo above?

"Oh my God, look! She's dead!"

Posted by wayne76 at February 28, 2007 01:30 PM

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Bocephus says ...

Sorry Jeff, just because some sleazy tabloid thinks it's okay to slap pictures of a corpse on their front page, doesn't make it okay for you to do the same. Show some class, seriously, I expect much better from this site. Leave the Anna Nicole corpse fluff pieces to gutter trash "news" sources like CNN.

Posted by Bocephus at February 28, 2007 01:35 PM

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