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Why J.J. Abrams Being Perfect for ‘Episode VII’ is Terrible for ‘Star Wars’
J.J. Abrams is a no-brainer for Star Wars: Episode VII. He’s proven himself as a popular storyteller of science fiction by working with, among others, a giant international franchise that takes place...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Coward’ Magnificently Engages the Brutality of WWI Trenches
Why Watch? From the lush shots in the opening minutes of David Roddham‘s film, it would be easy to assume Coward was an attempt to look on the bright side of war. It’s not. Neither is it the Saving...
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Brad Bird’s ’1952′ Is Now Titled ‘Tomorrowland,’ We Still Don’t Know Anything...
Oh, Disney, you little tricksters. As most people who are interested in Brad Bird‘s upcoming mystery project for the Mouse House have attempted to use its first title – 1952 - to build theories as to...
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Paul Giamatti In Talks to Gore ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ as The Rhino
When you think of a hulking, monstrous man who charges into every situation with his head down and attempts to fix every problem in his path by smashing it, you tend to think of Paul Giamatti, am I...
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Girls: Catching Up With ‘I Get Ideas’ and ‘Bad Friend’ Or, Lena Dunham’s Show...
Apologies to our loyal readers, as your faithful Girls recappers/chatterers have just returned from playing in the snow and lung-crushing altitude of the Sundance Film Festival, an outing that kept...
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Now You Don’t Have to Listen to Your Friends Bitch About That ‘Star Wars’ 3D...
While the news that Disney chose J.J. Abrams to direct their first go-around with the Star Wars franchise, Star Wars: Episode VII, hasn’t been universally accepted as good news by everyone, it’s hard...
View ArticleVideo: Check Out Casper Van Dien Playing Himself in ‘Noobz’
As it turns out, Casper Van Dien is a pretty cool guy. At the very least, he’s the kind of actor that has a sense of humor about himself and his Starship Troopers-based legacy. In Noobz, he gets to...
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Of Course ‘Justice League’ Depends on How Well ‘Man of Steel’ Does
This probably comes as no surprise, but according to Variety, the Justice League movie over at Warners will depend on Man of Steel‘s box office performance. It’s encouraging (if not obvious) though,...
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Our ‘All Superheroes Must Die’ Drinking Game Will Make You Lose Your Cape
Superhero movies aren’t just massive blockbuster juggernauts like The Avengers and The Dark Knight. They can also be made on a more modest, independent budget. All Superheroes Must Die (also known as...
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Jet Li Returns to the Present to Give Martial Arts Fans the Gift of ‘Badges...
I’ve railed before about the over-abundance of period martial arts films and the lack of their modern-day counterparts especially when it comes to truly talented screen fighters like Donnie Yen and...
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Why There Should Be an Academy Award for Music Supervision
A few weeks back, Matthew Perpetua of Buzzfeed wrote a post arguing that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences should consider an award for “Best Use of an Old Song,” citing the memorable...
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Steven Soderbergh Threatens to Retire Again, Speaks Out Against Industry...
It’s difficult to remember the first time Steven Soderberg talked concretely about retirement, but it was probably back in 2011 when he claimed he’d do two more movies and then call it quits. This was...
View ArticleSFotD: Sundance Filmmaker David Lowery’s Amusingly Animated ‘My Daily Routine’
Why Watch? Filmmaker David Lowery just wowed audiences at Sundance with his Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, so it seems fair to assume that we’ll be hearing his name a lot more in the coming months, so why...
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‘The Place Beyond the Pines’ Poster Will Not Let You Forget Ryan Gosling’s...
Have you guys heard about this movie? The one where everyone’s darling, Ryan Gosling, has a facial tattoo and also rides a motorcycle and is also a bank robber and also Bradley Cooper and Eva Mendes...
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‘The Big Sleep’ Has the Big Pedigree, But ‘Laura’ Is Better Film Noir
Film from the ’40s is perhaps best remembered for all of the dark and moody crime dramas it produced that kicked off the film noir genre. Hundreds of films full of fog, dicks, and dames have been made...
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Sundance 2013 Review: Tight and Tense ‘A Teacher’ Clips Along Mercilessly
This year’s Sundance Film Festival was rife with films about inappropriate sexual relationships, especially already-shocking May-December dalliances made still more inappropriate by uncomfortable...
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Casting Couch: Eva Green Is Sin City’s ‘A Dame to Kill For,’ Steve Carell...
What is Casting Couch? It’s the casting column that’s basically been subsisting on news coming out of Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City sequel in recent days. Today he adds two more actors to his ensemble....
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‘Searching For Sugar Man’ Subject Rodriguez Might Finally Make a Third Album
Last year’s much-buzzed-about documentary Searching For Sugar Man told the story of Rodriguez, a talented though obscure folk musician from Detroit who put out two very poorly-selling albums in the...
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Justified: Raylan’s ‘Bird Has Flown’… And He Just Wants His Money
So, I guess Justified thought we were in need of some testosterone this week? Sure, why not. The title of this week’s installment is “This Bird is Flown,” and the meaning there is fairly obvious – in...
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Review: ‘Yossi’ is a Slow Burn Character Study That Sticks With You
A lovingly rendered slow burn of a character study, Yossi impresses its message upon viewers with a quiet fortitude. In this sequel to Yossi & Jagger, we find Yossi (Ohad Knoller), a 34-year old...
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