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Buy ‘Dredd’ and ‘Sleep Tight’ If You Know What’s Good for You, and Rent or...
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best Alex (Ryan O’Nan) is booted from his band, dumped by his...
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‘Side Effects’ Trailer Shows a Drugged-Up Rooney Mara at the Center of Scandal
I’m not entirely sure what’s going on in this trailer for Side Effects from Steven Soderbergh, but it’s intense. From the synopsis, I know that Rooney Mara plays a woman taking prescription pills to...
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How Abrams’ Mystery Machine is Doing Movie Hype Right
While answering questions about something very few people care about (NBC’s Revolution) writer/director/mystery boxer/producer J.J. Abrams went on the defensive about his secrecy concerning projects....
View ArticleTake a Video Tour of the Alamo Drafthouse to Say Goodbye to the Iconic South...
Austin movie fans have already said farewell to one iconic Alamo Drafthouse. The Colorado Street location in the heart of downtown was a rickety kind of temple to cinema passion. Scrappy and genuine,...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘An Illustrated Talk with Maurice Sendak’ is Bittersweet Delight
Why Watch? Christoph Niemann‘s animation makes an excellent dance partner to Maurice Sendak‘s reflections on life. Poignant and responsible for a few square inches of heartbreak, Sendak’s insight...
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Sundance 2013: Rutger Hauer Stars in Exclusive Poster Premiere for the...
If you’re attending Sundance this year and have already started thinking, “man, I would really love to see a dramatic feature that stars Rutger Hauer as an aging and blind B-movie star who is also a...
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Tom Six and Dieter Laser Patch Up Their Differences, Will Join Together for...
While we were not in any way, shape, or form stressing over the apparent legal battles between Human Centipede director Tom Six and star Dieter Laser (still the greatest name in Hollywood), it looks...
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Celebrate Nicolas Cage’s Birthday the Traditional Way: By Tweeting Us...
This week is a banner one for Sir Nicolas Cage (what? he hasn’t been knighted yet? who cares!), as today marks Cage’s birthday and the day before the home video release of his Stolen on DVD and...
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Madman Frank Darabont to Unleash His Next Monster With ‘Godzilla’ Rewrite
Though Frank Darabont’s translation of Robert Kirkman’s “The Walking Dead” comic book from the page to the small screen for AMC was a process full of tumult—given that Darabont famously fired his...
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Casting Couch: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Gets More High-Profile Offers, Julia...
Today was basically Godzilla day on the Internet. All sorts of news regarding Legendary Pictures’ reboot of the big green guy’s film series broke, and some of it involves casting. THR broke the news...
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Movie News After Dark: We’re Back Like the Dowager Countess
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly quarrel with the boundaries of good taste. It’s a nightly column that took some holiday time off, but it now back for its third (we think) season of...
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Mark Romanek Won’t Go Mickey Mouse With ‘Cinderella’
I would love to meet the executives at Disney who ever said, “Never Let Me Go and One Hour Photo? This guy Mark Romanek wreaks of Disney goodness!” Nobody at the studio probably said that, sadly, but...
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‘The Last Stand’ Red Band Trailer Ditches Comedy For Transcendent Violence
Despite the stellar filmography of The Last Stand’s director Jee-woon Kim and the excitement surrounding its star Arnold Schwarzenegger’s return to acting, the film doesn’t seem to be building all...
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Dispense Some Drunk Justice with a ‘Dredd’ Drinking Game
The 90s were good in some ways. Other ways, not so much. The odious Sylvester Stallone version of Judge Dredd was one way the 90s kind of sucked. Fortunately, we have a new Judge available on DVD and...
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This Is Shorty: Why Are We Afraid of Long Comedies?
Self-indulgent. Nevel-gazing. Structureless. Plotless. These are some of the shared criticisms that have been leveled at Judd Apatow’s This Is 40, but many of these denunciations have been articulated...
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‘Girls Against Boys’ Trailer Can Be Very Persuasive
Remember that time Fatal Attraction was told from Glenn Close’s character’s perspective as a revenge thriller? Me neither, but Girls Against Boys looks like a slick enough attempt at channeling Alex...
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We Will Remember The Alamo
A fledgling movie geek, still wet behind the ears and eyes, arrives in a town called Austin and heads to a movie theater he read about online. The first Alamo Drafthouse he ever visited was the...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Eric Goes West’ Earns Its Buzz By Doing A Lot With a Little
Why Watch? It’s not hard to imagine why this short film is going around like free whiskey. It’s shot with an eye for detail and interesting angles while pulling off some difficult scenes in difficult...
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Brad Pitt Close to Snacking His Way Through the Crucifixion in ‘Pontius Pilate’
Pontius Pilate, like Benedict Arnold after him, lived in a time of great political and social unrest. Big things were happening, many sides were battling against each other, feelings were running...
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Directors Guild Apparently Not Fans of Tarantino, Russell, or P.T. Anderson...
As the gears of Hollywood grind steadily onward to Thursday morning’s Oscar nominations, other voting bodies are rushing to get their awards nominations out while people still even remotely care (or,...
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