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Kong: Skull Island may be set in the early 1970s, but it’s clearly engineered for modern sensibilities. The film’s trailer drew comparisons to Apocalypse Now, but director Jordan Vogt-Roberts seems less inspired by Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam War film than its iconic poster of a fiery setting sun, an image Skull Island returns to over and over. Even if it bears superficial similarities to Coppola’s classic, it’s little more than A-picture gloss on a big-budget B-movie. Naming one of your characters after Joseph Conrad doesn’t make your film Heart of Darkness; the only thing at this movie’s heart is the (admittedly accurate) belief that when a giant ape punches a giant lizard in the face with a boat motor it looks totally freaking awesome.

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The first trailer for Kong: Skull Island debuted at Comic-Con back in July, offering a sneak peek that was more visually exciting and intriguing than we could have possibly hoped, clearly evoking classic war films like Apocalypse Now and The Thin Red Line — you know, but with a giant ape. After a week of teasers and images preparing us for Kong’s revival, a new official trailer has arrived online heralding a bigger, badder return for the legendary movie monster.

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There are good days, there are bad days, and then there are days when you confuse Samuel L. Jackson with Laurence Fishburne and find yourself at the mercy of an actor whose voice can make even the strongest man whimper in terror. This sounds like a joke, but it actually happened on live television, and since this is the internet, it will never go away and the news anchor who made the tragic error will never live it down.

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There's never a day when we don't love Samuel L. Jackson. And he once again let his awesome flag fly during a recent interview on UK radio station Capital FM.

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Back in April, I told you about what I believe is one of the best ideas for a children's book that's not a children's book in the history of literature.

To give you a quick recap, Go the F**k to Sleep is a hilarious story written by Adam Mansbach that every parent can relate to, wishing that your child would just go the _____ to sleep when it's time to go the ______ to sleep. What makes it clever and creative is that it's written and illustrated as a children's book. (NOTE: Do NOT read this to your children! Unless they're over the age of 18.)

So how do you take an already great idea and make it greater? You have one of the baddest mo' fo's on the planet, Samuel L. Jackson, record the audio version.

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