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Year in Review: Why Movies in 2012 Were About Personalities, Not Characters

In this end-of-year editorial, Landon Palmer discusses the pattern that movies demonstrated in 2012 for telling stories through protagonists defined by their various personality traits rather than...

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Over/Under: ‘Moon’ Offers Up All the Joys of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Without...

Ask any movie geek what their favorite horror movie is, and there’s a good chance they might say Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Ask them what their favorite war movie is, and there’s a good chance...

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SFotD: A Small Boy Tries to Solve the Mystery of Babies in the Endearing ‘Oru...

Why Watch? There’s no doubt that Oru Kutty Chodyam (A Little Question) is a bit sweet in its delivery. This charming short film is covered in syrup, but the combination of an adorable child demanding...

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Year in Review: The 12 Best Movie Trailers of 2012

Everyone knows you can’t judge a book by its cover, but were you aware that movies shouldn’t be judged by a trailer either? I know, seems counter-intuitive, but while the trailer advertises a feature...

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The Top 12 Movies of 2012 (According to the Internet)

Earlier this year, we organized a vote between a bunch of internet film critics (and a handful of filmmakers) to come up with what they would cumulatively exalt as the best movies of all time. It’s...

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Jay-Z Creating “Dope” Score for Luhrmann’s ‘Great Gatsby’

At what point can we start calling Baz Luhrmann a troll instead of a filmmaker? If Australia – the flabby apotheosis of a supposedly beloved country — doesn’t count, then maybe having Jay-Z score an...

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The Movie Star (1910 – 2012)

As if answering our well-established hypothesis about Hollywood shutting down the production of genuine movie stars, the industry offered a positively scientific blitz of testing this year to...

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SFotD: ‘We Will Forget’ Remembers a Prophet Who Got it Wrong

Why Watch? If its provocative title isn’t enough, this short documentary focusing on failed Doomsday Prophet Robert Fitzpatrick pours on the intrigue by giving him a wide berth to share his thoughts....

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Year in Review: 12 Great (and 6 Terrible) American Films You Didn’t Bother...

The movies listed here aren’t necessarily the year’s best, but they’re still great movies that never found an audience during their theatrical run for one reason or another. At least one of those...

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt Hops in the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Casting Pool,...

Now that Marvel Studios has been wildly successful at turning some of their most popular comic book properties into hugely profitable feature film series, the publisher turned movie house is taking...

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Year in Review: The Best Movie Posters of 2012

This is the kind of Year in Review article that could get out of hand. Long-winded explanation of the intricacies of studio marketing and boutique-driven movie art prints. But lets be honest with...

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A Sexually Inappropriate Super Spy-Related Giveaway! Win ‘Archer’ Season 3 on...

Did you hear that Skyfall passed the one billion dollar mark recently at the international box-office? Yeah, pretty cool. But you know who’s not impressed with James Bond’s latest accomplishment?...

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The Second Annual Reject Awards

It’s funny. We spend so much time honoring the triumphs of 2012, and the big game won’t even roll around until February. The Academy Awards aren’t a paragon of perfection for some, and they aren’t the...

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Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Snowpiercer’ Gets Some Fine Concept Art

In 2031, a massive train presses its way through the frozen wasteland of a planet with a desperate crowd of passengers unsure of whether they’ll survive or if surviving is worth it. Trapped and...

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The 52 Most Anticipated Movies of 2013

Just yesterday, a friend of mine posted a message to her unborn child on Facebook, saying that if the little bugger came a week before the due date and ruined her chance to see Star Trek Into...

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38 Things We Learned from the ‘Star Trek II’ Commentary

One of the most anticipated films of 2013 is Star Trek: Into Darkness, which finally comes out this May. After the trailer dropped late last year, there was plenty of speculation about how it connects...

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Casting Couch: The ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Casting Saga Continues, Ashley...

As if the casting situation regarding the lead role for James Gunn’s upcoming Marvel movie, Guardians of the Galaxy, needed to get even more heated, today brings news that yet another candidate has...

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Unfortunately, These New Pieces of Concept Art From Pixar’s Cancelled ‘Newt’...

It’s not often that Pixar misfires on something but, if these newly-posted pieces of concept art for their cancelled feature Newt are any indication, the animation studio might have slipped up when it...

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The 5 Must-See Movies of January 2013

2012 is over. Gone forever. Never coming back. Based on our staff picks for the best features of 2012, it was far from a bad year. We had all kinds of good-to-great films, and we’d be lucky to have...

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Film Jockeys #4: A Year at the Movies

What happens when a legendary film critic brings is geriatric crankiness to an internet movie show? Film Jockeys follows the adventures of Carl Barker, his far-too-young production staff, the...

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