Colorado movie theater massacre victims to be honored

DENVER — The suburb of Aurora, Colo., will hold a Day of Remembrance on Sunday to mark the second anniversary of the slaughter of 12 people in a local movie theater.

The event is to remember “individuals who lost their lives, but also all of those who witnessed this tragedy,” Ernest Duff, program director of the Aurora Strong Resilience Center told the Denver Post. “It honors their lives and it honors the community’s commitment to remaining resilient and finding new ways to adapt in the face of tragedy.”

The center was set up to help residents deal with the trauma of the mass shooting, and a therapist from Aurora Mental Health will be available for counseling sessions.

On July 20, 2012, a gunman wearing body armor killed 12 people and injured 70 during a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” at Aurora’s Century 16 theater.

James Holmes, a former neuroscience graduate student, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the shootings. His attorneys say he was gripped by a psychotic episode.

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The cliche is that the best part of going to movies is watching the trailers. Or rather, it used to be, back when trailers weren't widely available on the web and the movies weren't a monument to Jean-Paul Sartre. But trailers remain pretty great, and with promotional campaigns getting more and more extended, we spend a lot of time looking at the same ones. Which is why the best ones deserve to be lauded.

Every week here at The Wire, we're going to bring you an up-to-date ranking of the best, most effective trailers out there. New ones will attempt to knock the old ones off their perch, and, inevitably, our enthusiasms will wax and wane. Our methodology involves staff-wide rankings and YouTube views, blended together with the Colonel's herbs and spices. What we're trying to say is: if you want trailers, you came to the right place.

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Maria Sole Tognazzi's Italian dramedy is two star offering, but has some escapist appeal.Margherita Buy stars in ‘A Five Star Live.’

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'Star Wars' Minecraft Movie Combines Geek Dreams

If you thought Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope was low-res before, just wait until you see this version.

A Star Wars fan is recreating the classic movie entirely out of stills from Minecraft. The painstaking process has already been three years in the making, and some of the individual scenes took six months to build.

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Scarlett Johansson fans take heart! A script for a Black Widow movie exists

Director, writer and voice actor David Hayter has revealed that he has penned a script for a Black Widow movie.

Hayter, best know for voicing Snake in Metal Gear Solid, told Latino Review that he is planning on approaching Marvel about the film again in the future.

He said: ‘For Black Widow I wrote [a script] ten years ago and I was attached to direct it then. Then a few female action movies came out and they didn’t do very well. And the movie got shelved. It’s on IMDB and I’m going to talk to Marvel about possibly re-igniting that project.