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How the Oscars Are Like Thanksgiving
Some of this year’s big movies are like a Thanksgiving dinner. They’re elaborate, colorful, and delicious. They also take time to digest, as most meals of such size and ambition do. Filling and...
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Review: ‘Hitchcock’ Takes A Stab At ‘Psycho,’ But Clumsily Slips and Hurts...
Biopics take on a new personality when the subject is an admired figure or, worse still, a personal hero. Alfred Hitchcock’s well-deserved moniker, “The Master of Suspense,” does little to fully...
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Andrew Dominik Says His ‘Blonde’ Is Next, Naomi Watts Still Set to Star
Back when we first heard about director Andrew Dominik‘s cinematic adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates‘ “Blonde” (itself an interpretation of the life of Marilyn Monroe), the big concern was that the film...
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Review: ‘The Central Park Five’ Is Well-Executed, Non-Sensationalist...
Editor’s note: The Central Park Five begins a limited roll-out today, so here is a re-run of our Cannes Film Festival review, originally published on May 27, 2012. The Cannes official selection...
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Prepare for the Sunday Night Premiere of ‘Liz & Dick’ With This Photo Gallery...
“Lindsay Lohan as Elizabeth Taylor.” That will just never get old. From the moment Lifetime’s “biopic” (term used incredibly loosely) of the tumultuous relationship between Elizabeth Taylor and...
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Holiday Deals for Movie Lovers: ‘Bond 50′ Blu-ray Set for $99, Breaking Bad...
Black Friday may be over, but the Internet keeps churning out some great deals. Throughout the holiday season, we’ll by keeping you in the know with our ongoing series, Deals for Movie Lovers. Because...
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Reject Recap: ‘Lincoln’ Relevance, ‘Life of Pi’ for Best Picture and ‘Star...
This was a major holiday week in America, so FSR content was a bit lighter than usual. And yet you may have been too busy traveling to follow the site over the past few days anyway. If so, the most...
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The Ingredients: ‘Life of Pi’ Recalls Cameron, Hitchcock and Chaplin Films
The Ingredients is a column devoted to breaking down the components of a new film release with some focus on influential movies that came before. As always, these posts look at the entire plots of...
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Director Douglas Aarniokoski and Actors Michael Eklund and Cory Hardrict on...
Editors Note: The following interview was conducted in September 2011 but has never been published before today. It is finally seeing the light now because The Day is finally hitting DVD and Blu-ray...
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The Jingo Ate My Parable: How the ‘Red Dawn’ Remake Has Its Cake and Eats It Too
When I first heard there was going to be a Red Dawn remake, I didn’t see the need. Even in a post-9/11 world, in which we have experienced a foreign attack on U.S. soil — unlike when the 1984 original...
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Dominic Monaghan, Shawn Ashmore and Ashley Bell Discuss the “Brilliant”...
Editors Note: The following interview was conducted in September 2011 but has never been published before today. It is finally seeing the light now because The Day is finally hitting DVD and Blu-ray...
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Cyber Monday Deals for Movie Lovers
Ahh the days after Thanksgiving, when America shows the rest of the world just how far we’re willing to go for a deal. If you’re all done looking at videos of crazy people nearly killing each other at...
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The Academy Will Have a Record 21 Animated Films to Choose From For Oscar
In just a few months, a team of holiday warriors, an orange environmentalist and 19 other animated hopefuls will battle for an Oscar. Of course by then the number will have been whittled down to a...
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The Walking Dead: Michonne ‘Comes Knocking’ and Woodbury Isn’t Too Much Fun
Comparatively to past weeks, the latest episode of The Walking Dead, “When the Dead Come Knocking,” succeeded in showing some great examples of that age-old George A. Romero zombie parable: that...
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This Week In Blu-ray & DVD: In Search Of ParaNorman, Lawless, Men In Black 3,...
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. In Search Of: Complete Series The universe is filled with mystery, and for several years the...
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‘Snitch’ Trailer: The Rock Battles a Drug Cartel to Save His Son
What would you do if your son was facing a ten-year mandatory minimum drug sentence for a crime he swears he didn’t do? You’d probably make a lot of road trips to the prison with cigarette carton gift...
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Surprise: Everyone on the Internet Wants You To Know How Bad ‘Liz & Dick’ Sucked
If you logged on to Twitter at all yesterday evening, you were likely bombarded with tweets about Liz & Dick, a Lifetime Original movie that sucked, not to be confused with Lez & Dick, a...
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Of Course ‘Man of Steel’ Will Begin the Push to ‘Justice League’
“We approach the film as a single endeavor,” he says. “There are a lot of gears that have to turn in the world of commerce and the world of the mythology we create to facilitate more adventures for...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Dark Vessel’ is Bloody Robot Action From a Disney Cartoonist
Why Watch? Sure, kicking a stool out from under someone is a great way to let them hang, but the villainous, gruff-voiced robot in Rocky Curby‘s unique short film would rather cut through their legs...
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‘I Give It A Year’ Trailer: In the Grand Tradition of Brits Behaving Badly
It’s been awhile since we got a truly funny, delectably biting British rom-com shipped over America way. Where is this generation’s Four Weddings and A Funeral? Wither a new Bridget Jones’s Diary?...
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