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‘Jurassic Park IV’ Has a Release Date (But No Director, Plot, or Cast)
Universal Pictures has just announced that their Jurassic Park IV will hit theaters on June 13, 2014. And, yup, that’s pretty much it. Beyond that, we only know that Steven Spielberg will produce, it...
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‘Step Up 5′ Will Bring Back Former Stars, Include Big Dance-Off, Basically...
Because there is not an original idea left in Hollywood and also because Summit’s Step Up franchise has, over seven years and four films, morphed into one of the most dazzlingly insane and...
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The Oscars’ Nominations for the Best Film Story of the Week
No, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hasn’t set up a new category to honor writing about film. The Oscars of the title are my dog, Oscar the Groucho Marx Campbell (who is in no way...
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7 Upload! Win One of the Last Remaining ‘Up’ Series Box Sets!
This week, in the midst of celebrating the theatrical release of 56 Up (see my review), I heard some unfortunate news. Most of the Up series has recently gone out of print in the U.S. This should only...
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2013 Golden Globe Predictions: Movie Categories
The 70th Golden Globe Awards will be held tomorrow night, and I invite you to join myself and FSR’s awards guru, Daniel Walber, for live-blog commentary during the ceremony. We’ll try to keep it...
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Slamdance 2013: Back-Breaking Exclusive Trailer for ‘To The Bone’ Might Have...
Inspired by true events, Erin Li‘s Slamdance-premiering short, To The Bone, looks to cut precisely there. The film centers on a young family struggling to make it in America, and the unexpected...
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Review: ‘I Didn’t Come Here to Die’ Stresses the Importance of Volunteer Work...
I believe it was John F. Kennedy who famously said “Ask not what your country can do for you, but who you can kill for your country.” That might be a misquote, but the point is volunteering should be...
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Review: Yoshihiro Nakamura Blends Mystery and Music Once More with ‘The...
Yoshihiro Nakamura isn’t as high a profile Japanese director as folks like Takashi Miike or Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he truly deserves to be. His early career focused on horror, but the last few years...
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Movie House of Worship: Park City’s Eccles Theatre
“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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Where Can You Watch the 2013 Oscar-Nominated Films?
Once upon a time, the Oscar nominations were filled with titles unfamiliar to the regular Joe. Not unknown, necessarily, but at least not widely seen. But today, thanks to all kinds of home video...
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Of Course We’re Live-Blogging The Golden Globes While Playing Tina Fey’s...
Will Kathryn Bigelow or Ben Affleck make up for their Oscar snubs with a Best Director win? Will there be a Salmon Fishing in the Yemen sweep? Will Marion Cotillard and John Hawkes be wheeled out,...
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‘Argo’ and ‘Les Miserables’ Win Top Film Awards at Golden Globes
One of the big surprises of the 2013 Golden Globe Awards involved a sort of “Argo-f**kyourself” to the Academy Awards, as Oscar-snubbed Ben Affleck was named Best Director of the year. His film, Argo,...
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‘Trance’ Trailer Can Make James McAvoy Do Anything It Wants
Danny Boyle is back in March with Trance, a movie that sees James McAvoy forgetting where he put a stolen painting, the Vincent Cassel- led gangsters that want it and Rosario Dawson attempting to use...
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It’s A Good Day! The ‘Die Hard’ Franchise Returns to the R-Rating
It wasn’t the only thing messing with its mojo, but the PG-13 rating did exactly zero favors for Live Free or Die Hard. It was tough to see a character whose catchphrase involves the term...
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A Brief History of Slavery at the Academy Awards (or 5 Films That Prove Oscar...
After I saw Django Unchained for the first time, I jokingly tweeted that it was going to be funny when a bunch of white people get nominated for Academy Awards for this movie about slavery. Then the...
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Life’s Too Short to Watch ‘Branded,’‘The Possession’ or ‘To Rome With Love,’...
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. Wake in Fright John Grant (Gary Bond) is a civilized man doing a stint as a schoolteacher in...
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It’s Time to Give Tom Cruise a Break
Tom Cruise is in the entertainment news again, but not for the widely acclaimed and well received action flick Jack Reacher. No, the Hollywood powerhouse is once again being talked about because of...
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UPDATED: We Still Don’t Know Who Is Directing ‘Star Wars: Episode VII,’ But...
UPDATED: THR reached out to Snyder’s reps, who told them: “While he is super flattered because he is a huge fan, Zack is not involved in any way with the new Star Wars. He is currently in post on his...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘SEC’ is an Aerial Drone Love Affair
Why Watch? What (or who) is SEC? You’ll have to watch this charming short film from The Netherlands to find out. In the movie, a mysterious man sends a camera-equipped helicopter out into the world to...
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‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ Teaser Poster Is Basically ‘The Hunger...
Who wants to participate in gruesome, bloody, terrifying hand-to-hand combat on live national television again? No, no, we’re not talking about last night’s Golden Globes, we’re talking about The...
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