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‘Bates Motel’ Teaser Gives ‘Psycho’ a Cell Phone and a Lot of Mommy Issues
In 2013, A&E will debut Bates Motel, a prequel inspired by Psycho that tells the story of Norma (Vera Farmiga) and Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore). It comes from Lost executive producer Carlton...
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Hope You’re Ready For Even Higher Frame Rates
Joe Letteri, the Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor behind The Hobbit, is currently on an interview tour trying to explain to people who didn’t like 48FPS that they’re probably just too old to...
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4 Blu-ray/DVDs You Should Buy This Week and 14 More to Rent or Avoid
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. Killer Joe Chris (Emile Hirsch) is having a bad day, but when he decides the key to solving...
View ArticleSecond ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Teaser Trailer Has Greatness In It But No...
While the announcement trailer (which is something studios are doing now) was decidedly dark, there’s a shining kind of hope in this new look at Star Trek Into Darkness (via iTunes) even as the Tom...
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So We’re Back to Blaming Movies and Video Games For Real-Life Violence
In the wake of the most recent tragedy in Newton, Connecticut, where a gunman murdered twenty-seven people, many of them children, people look first for answers and second for responsibility. What...
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‘Drift’ Trailer Hangs Ten With Sam Worthington
Drift, from the appropriately named Morgan O’Neill and Ben Nott, treks back to the 1970s to explore some truly horrendous wigs and the wild west of surfing down under. This is where the sport evolved...
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SFotD: ‘Road’s End’ is Delightfully Unnerving
Why Watch? In this quick shot, a mysterious figure stands over a car wreck, then thumbs a ride to get down the road without saying a word. It’s that silence that Bri Meyer plays with here so well. It’s...
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Aubrey Plaza to Bring Her Biting Charm to Zom-Com ‘Life After Beth’
Yes, we’re going with “zom-com” and we’re sticking to it. While promoting the endlessly charming Safety Not Guaranteed overseas (seriously, I’ve watched it four times now, and it genuinely gets...
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How to Get Your Script on the 2012 Black List: True Stories, Teen Cancer,...
Over the years, the term “Black List script” has become much more prevalent when it comes to the reporting of new projects, thanks to the increased awareness of Franklin Leonard‘s annual list, one...
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Move Over, Telly Savalas, Vin Diesel Is the New Kojak
Today is the best day ever for people who have fantasized about Vin Diesel sucking on a lollipop. Deadline reports that Universal is setting the mumbly-mouthed mountain of a man up as the new actor to...
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Relive Your High School Glory Days With a ’10 Years’ Prize Pack
While some of you may have spent the Wednesday before Thanksgiving at your very own high school reunion (as seems to be the tradition, so Zack and Miri Make a Porno remind us), like most things, it’s...
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Jamie Foxx Really Doesn’t Want to Wear Green and Yellow Spandex in the...
Now that Jamie Foxx is official to play the villainous Electro in Marc Webb’s Amazing Spider-Man sequel, it only makes sense that he should start talking about the role in interviews. People are...
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Casting Couch: Jackie Chan Becomes ‘Expendable,’ Noomi Rapace May Join Tom...
What is Casting Couch? It’s a column that has a lot of new casting news today, so settle in. Even after only two movies, the number of aged action stars who have yet to appear in Sylvester Stallone’s...
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‘No’ Trailer Uses an Ad Campaign to Take Down a Dictator
Augusto Pinochet was not a good guy. He rose to power in Chile through a military coup, and he’d go on to amass nearly 300 criminal charges throughout his brutally corrupt reign. Through increasing...
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Holiday Gifts for Movie Lovers: Books on Film
With Christmas fast approaching, if you’re anything like us, you’re probably starting to think about maybe thinking about doing some Christmas shopping. It’s cool. No rush. But what do you get the...
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Indie Rom-Coms Now Have a Formula And That’s a Dangerous Thing
It’s nothing new to say that the term “independent filmmaking” has come to no longer reference the actual practice of making films outside the studio system, and alerts more directly to an aesthetic...
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‘Smurfs 2′ Trailer: When Good Smurfs Go Bad
I fully understand that I’m not the target audience for this kind of movie, but who is? Five year olds born in 1901 who somehow grew up in 1972 and now magically live in 2013? If the first flick...
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Endure and Enjoy the 9-Hour ‘Lord of the Rings’ Drinking Game
By now, you’ve probably seen The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, and you may have stumbled out of the theater, feeling drunk from the effects of the HFR projection. Regardless of what you thought of...
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Brace Yourself: Ricky Gervais Might Team Up With ‘The Muppets’
We’re lucky to live in a time where pop culture is happily blended millions of times a day. G.I. Joe plays with My Little Pony. An IKEA monkey becomes Bane. Everything gets mixed with Inception. These...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘The Bigger Picture’ Invents a Better Magic Camera
Why Watch? Not just because Instagram is going to sell your work, and not just because this little trick has been used in plenty of stories before, but because Matt Young has found a way to update the...
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