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‘Captain America: Winter Soldier’ May Feature Some Grillo
If you have to top Hugo Weaving‘s fun turn as Red Skull, hiring a reliable actor like Frank Grillo isn’t such a bad idea. Rumors are Captain America: Winter Soldier is in search for an actor to play...
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With Kino’s ‘Fear and Desire,’ You Can Finally Be a Kubrick Completist
Stanley Kubrick was a notorious perfectionist. And perfectionists, unfortunately, are rarely prolific. Kubrick’s career as a director spanned nearly fifty years, but in that span of time the auteur...
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Scariest Movie Ever: Leatherface Fights Captain Howdy For the Championship
It was a tough few days for movies about creatures from other worlds slashing their way through flimsy human flesh. Both Alien and The Thing lost handedly in the semi-final. That means we have the two...
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31 Days of Horror: Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)
They said it couldn’t be done. A fifth year of 31 Days of Horror? 31 more terror, gore and shower scene-filled movies worth highlighting? But Rejects always say die and never back away from a...
View ArticleMash-Up: ‘The Exorcist’ is Hilarious as an 80s Sitcom
A while back, there was a burst of videos which recast wholesome, loveable characters as horror icons. It was all launched by the absolutely brilliant Scary Mary Poppins which probably worked because...
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6 Filmmaking Tips From Dario Argento
The word “Giallo” is Italian for “Yellow” which was the color of the covers of old pulp novels from the Mondadori publishing house. It’s also the color of the urine that’s scared out of you while...
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‘Evil Dead’ Trailer Forgoes Tongue-in-Cheek for Tongue-Sliced-in-Half
It feels like just yesterday we we wondering why we were supporting the latest idiotic trend in movie marketing by watching a teaser for a trailer of the new Evil Dead. It was a move that makes even...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Paul’ is the Saddest Puppet You’ll Meet Today (NSFW)
Why Watch? Paul (a puppet that resembles a dog….(an armadillo?)…rides the bus home, slugging something strong from a flask and thinking on his troubles. When he gets to his apartment, he discovers...
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6 Must See Films of AFI FEST 2012
As 2012 begins to wind down, your trusty LA Rejects, Kate Erbland and myself, plan to take on one final film festival – Los Angeles’ AFI FEST. AFI FEST differs from June’s Los Angeles Film Festival as...
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‘Empires of the Deep’ Trailer Tests Our Olga Kurylenko Love with an Ocean...
Who’s been waiting all their lives to see a mash up of The Little Mermaid and Flash Gordon? All of us right? Or at least that’s what the makers of Empires of the Deep seem to be banking on with their...
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No, Really: Documentary Titled ‘Top Priority: The Terror Within’ Is About...
Occasionally, the telefax at Reject HQ (just like in Argo!) spits out a press release that gives even snarky snarkers like us a moment of pause. One such facsimile arrived via the wire (or the radio,...
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Review: ‘The Thieves’ Is a Funnier and More Exciting ‘Ocean’s Twelve’
An elaborate theft involving high flying acrobatics, gadgetry and a con job opens writer/director Choi Dong-hoon‘s latest action/comedy, The Thieves, and it sets a perfect tone for the next hour....
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Christopher Nolan Collaborator Wally Pfister Scores Johnny Depp For His...
Wally Pfister is a name that might not be known by everyone, but he’s certainly an artist whose work everyone has seen. Pfister has been working as a camera operator since the late ’80s, and has...
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Scruffy Rogue Rhys Ifans Makes the ‘Madame Bovary’ Cast Even Better
Given the reliable financial formula of taking classic novels and turning them into feature films with lots of fancy period costumes and either Keira Knightley or Mia Wasikowska in the lead role, it...
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‘The Help’ Director Tate Taylor and Mick Jagger Want to Bring James Brown to...
According to Deadline Hollywood, Tate Taylor (The Help) is in talks to take on the James Brown biopic that Brian Grazer has long wanted to make. If he signs on the dotted line, he’ll be joining an...
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Ryan Gosling No Longer Training For ‘Logan’s Run’
According to Variety’s Justin Kroll, Ryan Gosling won’t be involved in Nicolas Winding Refn‘s remake of Logan’s Run after all. It was set to be the third collaboration between the pair following Drive...
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Without ‘Goldeneye’ There Would Be No ‘Skyfall’
For diehard fans of the James Bond franchise, each and every film is sacrosanct in some small fashion or another. Even those titles that flirt shamelessly with being totally unwatchable will offer at...
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31 Days of Horror: An American Werewolf in London (1981)
They said it couldn’t be done. A fifth year of 31 Days of Horror? 31 more terror, gore and shower scene-filled movies worth highlighting? But Rejects always say die and never back away from a...
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Two Horror Films That Prove Fear Can Be Beautiful (and That Bushes Can Be...
Although different in style and tone, celebrating Halloween and Suspiria together is an obviously great idea after speaking with Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, two horror writers who have created...
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10 Terrifying Disguises From Non-Horror Films
Ever wonder why people usually don’t wear elaborate costumes in real life when they are out killing teenagers or robbing banks? Chances are it’s because the whole damn point of wearing a disguise is...
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