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Year in Review: Our 12 Best Features of 2012
Here at Film School Rejects, we take our features game very, very seriously. On average, we roll out at least fifteen fresh recurring features every week, and that doesn’t even include one-off...
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51 Things We Learned from the ‘Looper’ Commentary
Rian Johnson‘s Looper is a rare film for many reasons. The only thing rarer than Hollywood committing to a mid-budget sci-fi film is one featuring an original idea not based on an existing property....
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Year in Review: The 12 Best Movie Mashups of 2012
Some may find them frivolous, but there’s something wonderfully profound about movie mashups. They represent both the ability of an audience to reshape the art they admire as well as the commonality...
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‘Aftershock’ Trailer Sends Eli Roth on the Worst Vacation Ever
Normally when pretty young people are getting tortured and mutilated in a horror movie it’s because they’ve run afoul of some sort of creature, spirit, or at least a mass-murdering psycho who’s...
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Paul Thomas Anderson Has Been Collaborating With a Reclusive Author to...
Speculation surrounding what Paul Thomas Anderson’s next project is going to be like is usually intense enough in the film geek community, but when the guy starts making claims in interviews that his...
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The Holidays Have All But Shut Down Hollywood, So Let’s Just Watch the First...
The week between Christmas and New Year’s is a notorious dead zone in Hollywood Newsland, but like a moaning, grasping zombie, we here at Film School Rejects are determined to rise above it with fresh...
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A Big, Fracking Giveaway! Win a ‘Promised Land’ Prize Pack
Director Gus Van Sant and star (and co-writer!) Matt Damon haven’t worked together since 1997′s star-making Good Will Hunting, but the duo are back together for Promised Land, a new contemporary drama...
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A Very Presidential Giveaway! Win a Prize, Thanks to ‘Hyde Park on Hudson’
Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln isn’t the only recent film to dive into the life and psyche of a beloved U.S. President, Roger Michell‘s Hyde Park on Hudson is poised to do the same thing when it comes to...
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Review: ‘Promised Land’ Calmly Delivers Heart, Authenticity and Its Fracking...
When he’s not being overly experimental with his stories, there’s no amount of heart that director Gus Van Sant can’t deliver. He’s proven such abilities time and time again with films like Good Will...
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Film Jockeys #3: Goodnight, Peter Jackson
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The 12 Best Movies of 2012
I watched 439 new-to-me films in 2012 (so far), and the majority of them were new releases. So, it is with no small measure that I say that this has been a spectacular year for movies, both domestic...
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Year In Review: The 12 Best Movie Soundtracks and Scores of 2012
Looking back over the past year in film, it is impressive to remember the different styles and forms of music that accompanied these various releases as they bring back the memories and emotions felt...
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Movie Scene of the Year: The ‘Holy Motors’ Accordion Intermission
Whether you loved it, hated it, or were scratching your head all the way through, Leos Carax’s Holy Motors is a memorable film. This disjointed, manic work is one of the most original and...
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The Eleventh Doctor’s New Companion Creates a Ton of Mysteries in ‘The Snowmen’
Will anyone ever be able to match the pluck, the humor, the passion, or the sheer adorableness of the Ponds? How do we go on without Amy and Rory? These are the questions looming over this year’s...
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Five Dream Nominations in Below-the-Line Oscar Categories
The Academy is voting! Nomination polls opened on December 17th and close on January 3rd. The two and a half week period might seem like a long time, but it’s going to go by in the blink of an eye,...
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Year in Review: The 12 Best Short Films of 2012
There are exactly 12,458 short films made every year. That number is a grossly inaccurate estimation, but the point is, there’s a hell of a lot of short films out there. The classic calling card for...
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ILM Teaches Us How to Craft the Final Battle of ‘The Avengers’ In Just Three...
As the year slowly winds to a close, now it as good as any time to reflect on some of our very favorite scenes, stunts, and effects from the best films of the year, and few projects had quite as many...
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One Thing We Now Know For Sure About ‘Pacific Rim’: Idris Elba Will Stand At...
While we’d be willing to hazard a guess that the only thing you really need to know about Guillermo del Toro‘s Pacific Rimis that it involves giant, human-controlled robots battling sea monsters,...
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The Holidays Have All But Shut Down Hollywood, So Let’s Just Watch the First...
The lethargy inherent in being in between two of the biggest holidays of the year has made this week kind of a dead zone for movie news, but a couple of studios have still been throwing us bones by...
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Casting Couch: Maggie Gyllenhaal Gets ‘Frank’ With Michael Fassbender, Wes...
What is Casting Couch? It’s the casting news roundup that’s been out of work since casting agents seem to be treating the week between Christmas and New Years as one prolonged food coma. If there’s...
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