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Your Grandmother is Going to Love the ‘Evil Dead’ Redband Trailer
If, like all grandmothers, yours is into gallons of blood spewing from someone’s mouth, forced tree seduction, banned books and mangled lesbian make-out scenes, she is going to absolutely rave about...
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Bong-less ‘Host 2′ Gets a Release Date in 2014
Bong Joon-ho did something incredible with The Host. He revitalized the creature feature, made a name for himself that he’s been able to capitalize on and ensured that there would be an American...
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‘Ben and Kate’ Has Charm But Lacks Focus
Fox may have put too much stock in the appeal of awkward quirk when the network added The Mindy Project and Ben and Kate to a Tuesday night line-up that revolves around Zooey Deschanel’s perky comedic...
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‘Ginger and Rosa’ Trailer Shows Elle Fanning Getting Serious
Coasting freely through the festival circuit, Sally Potter‘s Ginger and Rosa earned a lot of accolades, including from our own reviewer. The film focuses on two girls (Elle Fanning and Alice Englert)...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Grey’ is a Powerful Crime Film That Wrestles with Ethics and Identity
Why Watch? An impossible situation, a challenge of beliefs and consistent tension, this short from writer/director Marko Slavnic is a streamlined work of criminal heroism. While trying to steal a car,...
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Review: A Redundant Slog Through the ‘Crawlspace’ Rewards With a Creative and...
Once upon a time Australia was a hotbed of genre filmmaking bringing horror, action, sci-fi and more to the screen with an unparalleled sense of enthusiasm and energy. The high point ran through the...
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Five Surprises to Look (and Hope) For on Oscar Nomination Morning
The Oscar nominations will be announced next Thursday, January 10th. Who’s excited? Perhaps more tellingly, who’s geared up enough to wake up early to watch the press conference live? It’s at 5:30AM...
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Casting Couch: New ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Rumors Regarding Drax the...
The deluge of rumors concerning James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy continues unabated. This time around the source is Comic Book Movie, who says they have a shadowy operative close to the production...
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‘Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters’ Red Band Trailer: Yes, This Is Still a Movie
While we may often joke about the provenance of many films that Hollywood churns out, truth be told, there are few projects that leave me scratching my head as much as Tommy Wirkola‘s Hansel &...
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Review: ‘Tristana’ Suggests That Love at the Wrong Time Beats No Love at All
Love is a complicated thing, and whether you believe in soul mates or that it’s all a crap-shoot of the heart you’d be hard-pressed to deny that’s it’s an elusive, fragile and all together dangerous...
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Reject Recap: Oscar Predictions, the ‘Django’ Debate and Summing Up 2012
Happy New Year. Are you still hungover? Did you start a gym membership and spend the last three evenings touring the place, contemplating which machine you’ll eventually saddle up on to fulfill your...
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Fund This Film: Bill Plympton’s Animated Feature ‘Cheatin”
Crowdfunding campaigns are everywhere these days, and with this week’s report on the huge success of films financed through Kickstarter (more than 8,500 projects have made their goal since 2009), the...
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Pitch of the Week: ‘Django vs. Machete’
This week I got to wondering which, if any, original characters from 2012 could not only continue in sequels but lead a franchise that’ll be around in 25 years (see this Die Hard-inspired discussion...
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‘The Impossible’ Director JA Bayona on the Challenge of Making a True...
The Impossible is a tough movie for many reasons. With a real-life tragedy of this magnitude, if the smallest moment comes off as what we usually label as “entertainment,” the movie can become...
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Review: ’56 Up’ is a Must for Fans of the ‘Up’ Series, And Everyone Ought To...
It’s not likely that anyone will be seeing 56 Up without first having seen the rest of the Up series. And those who have seen the other seven installments will have a hard time not watching the...
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How Comfortable Do We Need To Be At the Movies?
“Movie Houses 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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Short Starts: Watch ‘Gangster Squad’ Director Ruben Fleischer’s First Film...
Ruben Fleischer is on a roll right now, with his third feature in four years hitting theaters (a bit delayed) this Friday. Before Gangster Squad, he directed the dark comedies Zombieland and 30...
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6 Funny Gangster Scenes We Love
Is anyone else surprised that Gangster Squad isn’t a comedy? First of all, the word ‘squad’ in the title reminds us of goofy material like Police Squad and The Monster Squad. Then there’s the fact...
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‘Only God Forgives’ Teaser: Nicolas Winding Refn Introduces Ryan Gosling to...
It’s in French, and it’s only 20 seconds, but we take what we can get when it comes to anything Nicolas Winding Refn has to show. Plus, we have several translation programs, so we fear no French....
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‘Glee’ Star Chris Colfer Talks Exhilarating Blackmail, High School Sarcasm...
Struck By Lightning is a huge deal for Glee star Chris Colfer – at only 22, he not only stars in the film, but also wrote the screenplay and executive produced. He has also adapted his screenplay for...
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