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Read more about The Last Airbender (2010) by clicking the links below:

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The Last Airbender French trailer
Third Last Airbender Trailer Arrives
The Last Airbender – TV spot #4
The Last Airbender: Katar and Zuko fight
Last Airbender: Fire Nation is Here
Last Airbender: Aang Through the Courtyard
The Last Airbender – Trailer #4
The Last Airbender – Dev Patel Interview
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[ July 2, 2010; ] Paramount Picutres releases writer-director M. Night Shymalan’s live-action feature-film adaptation of the Emmy-winning animated series AVATAR (no, it has nothing to do with the James Cameron film). Planned as the opening chapter in a trilogy, THE LAST AIRBENDER, focuses on Aang (Noah Ringer), the titular “last airbender,” who can control one of the four natural [...]

Over at Popmatters.com, Bill Gibron goes ecstatic over the possiblity of a sequel to UNBREAKABLE, word of which was floated by actor Bruce Willis during a press junket appearance for the current release COP OUT. UNBREAKABLE of course was the disappointing follow-up collaboration between Willis and writer-director M. Night Shyamalan, whose THE SIXTH SENSE became [...]

By Steve Biodrowski 
In his latest ominous opus, M. Night Shyamalan offers up low-intensity thrills that fail to match the shivery shudders of his best work (THE SIXTH SENSE, SIGNS). His patented approach – mixing domestic drama with horror – plays out on a much larger canvas ths time, yet yields diminishing returns inversely proportional to the [...]

Media attempts to chart the rise and fall of Shyamalan’s career overlook his message. 
In anticipation of THE HAPPENING, the new film from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan, we have, typically, seen a series of TV appearances and articles to promote the film’s release. Atypically, this article in the Los Angeles Times says next to nothing about the [...]

Shyamalan’s message: Love my movie – or die!

Not a nice place to visit, and you definitely don’t want to live there.
By Steve Biodrowski
Like UNBREAKABLE, this is another major disappointment from the writer-director of the excellent THE SIXTH SENSE. THE VILLAGE is not completely awful, but it comes closer than one would like to admit. Although there are a few good scenes [...]

For a major summer movie, the promotional campaign for THE HAPPENING hasn’t exactly been burning a brand into the American consciousness, but there have been some TV appearances and articles. Premier.com has a brief interview with actress Zooey Deschanel, who gives her view of the film’s message:
The film raises questions more than it [answers them]. A [...]

This disappointing follow-up to THE SIXTH SENSE reteams star (Bruce Willis) and writer-director (M. Night Shyamalan), but the old magic fails to re-materialize, thanks to overwrought melodrama and contrived plot developments. The premise (of a man who miraculously survives a train wreck that kills everyone else on board) initially seems intriguing, setting up a mystery that the audience is [...]

1999 was the year that the horror seemed to rise from the dead, thanks to the success of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT; unfortunately, that film was more box office phenomenon than a good movie. Thankfully, THE SIXTH SENSE came along to offer ample evidence that the genre’s resurrection was more than just a fluke. This [...]