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Reject Recap: The Best, The Worst and The Quentin Tarantino
Due to the holiday, the past week has been lacking in movie news and light on posting in general compared to normal. So, if you were worried that all your family time and present opening cut into the...
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Why ‘Django Unchained’ is Subversively Complex and Disappointingly Simple
Editor’s Note: This article contains spoilers for Django Unchained (and all of Tarantino’s other films). With Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino has taken a decisive shift in his approach to...
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Pitch of the Week: Cast John Turturro In a Movie About This Failed Doomsday...
Often I see a real person in the news or in a documentary and my mind immediately comes up with an actor to portray him or her in a biopic. This happened this week when I watched a short film about...
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Year in Review: The 12 Best Horror Movies of 2012
Another year has come and mostly gone and hundreds, if not thousands, of young, stupid, misbehaving teenagers have been lost at the hands of ghosts, apparitions, psychos, monsters, animals, and...
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Which Movie Had the Worst Ending of 2012?
When contemplating my favorite films of the year, I keep forgetting about Life of Pi. Yet very few narrative features wowed me as much as Ang Lee’s spectacular adaptation. Given how much I enjoyed it...
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Filmmaker of the Year: Megan Ellison
If you salivated over adult dramas and auteur filmmaking in 2012, you have a Hindu Goddess and a 26-year-old film school dropout to thank. The Hindu Goddess is Annapurna, the “mother who feeds” and...
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Movie House of Worship: Glendale, California’s Alex Theatre
“Movie House of Worship” is a regular feature spotlighting our favorite movie theaters around the world, those that are like temples of cinema catering to the most religious-like film geeks. This...
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Year in Review: The 12 Best Documentaries of 2012
2012′s best documentaries understand people. It’s as simple as that. They include beautiful character portraits, from group pictures like Indie Game: The Movie and El Gusto to individual pieces like...
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Short Starts: Watch ‘Texas Chainsaw 3D’ Star Alexandra Daddario in ‘Pitch’
Hollywood kicks off the new year in movies this Friday with the release of Texas Chainsaw 3D. The horror sequel stars 26-year-old actress Alexandra Daddario in her first major studio lead role, a gig...
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The 3rd Yearual Junkfood Cinema Awards
Welcome back to Junkfood Cinema; eat it, Mayans! Eat it with cheese! Yes, despite our best efforts, we’ve managed to survive another year and therefore it is once again time, in clear defiance of your...
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13 New Year’s Eve Scenes We Love
There are so many movies with New Year’s Eve scenes that we might be able to make a list of 2,013 of them. Especially if we separate each scene from movies completely set on the night, such as New...
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It’s Amazing! It’s Terrible! The Story of 2012
If there’s one word I think of that’s best tied to the story of film in 2012, it’s “disappointing.” That’s not to say that 2012 was a disappointing year for movies. I don’t know if it was the best in...
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Year in Review: The 12 Best Foreign Films of 2012
The title of this list is slightly misleading in that not all of the films were released this year. The sad fact is that the vast majority of foreign language films never reach our shores, and the...
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Movie of the Year: The Avengers
“That’s my secret, Cap: I’m always angry.” In the middle of 2008, director Christopher Nolan created a pivot point for superhero movies. Because up to the point when Heath Ledger’s Joker said, “How...
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This Week on Blu-ray & DVD: Buy ‘Looper’ and ‘Justified,’ Rent or Avoid the Rest
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. Justified: The Complete Third Season Deputy US Marshall Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) is...
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The Best Movies of 2012: Our Staff Picks
For a movie blogger, this is the most wonderful time of the year. It’s those magical weeks at the end of the calendar year when you get to sum it all up, break it all down and check your own list a...
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Year in Review: The 12 Best TV Shows of 2012
While the new fall line-up wasn’t too impressive (there are only two freshman series on this list, neither of which premiered in the fall) and former powerhouses have stumbled (Mad Men, Boardwalk...
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‘Dead Man Down’ Trailer Sees a Dragon Tattooed Pair Seeking Revenge with...
Niels Arden Oplev and Noomi Rapace made a deadly combination in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The director coldly orchestrated some horrifically emotional scenes, and Rapace became a mohawked icon...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘MAMA,’ the Short That Scared Guillermo Del Toro Into Making a Movie
Why Watch? This January, we’ll be able to see Andres Muschietti‘s Mama, which finds Nicolaj Coster-Waldau and a goth Jessica Chastain adopting two feral girls (trailer here). The feature makes this...
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Kick Off 2013 with a Drinking Game for ‘Teen Wolf,’ The Greatest Movie Ever Made
This week, we have seen 2012 come to a close with nary a whimper or a bang from the Mayan apocalypse. Sure, there’s $200 million movie weekends and 48 frames per second, but there were also some dark...
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