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Double the Karpovsky: Watch Our Two Exclusive Clips from ‘Red Flag’ and...
You guys are fans of Alex Karpovsky, right? Oh, good, because we’ve got a double feature of exclusive clips from the writer/director/actor’s latest two films, the very funny Red Flag and the very...
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‘Simon Killer’ Trailer: It’s Really Too Bad About That Title
If Antonio Campos‘ Simon Killer didn’t, oh, have the word “killer” in its title, the film’s first trailer – a stylish and slick little diddy – would be far more interesting. As is, it’s two minutes of...
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Cats and Kids and Hating on ‘Argo’: the 10 Best Oscar-Related Movie Blog...
With the Academy Awards finally taking place tomorrow (can you believe that for a long time they were regularly held in April?), there wasn’t a whole lot going on this week around the movie...
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Come Be a Part of Our 2013 Oscar Live Blogging Pajama Party
An honest question: would you rather scroll through a bunch of Oscar experts’ probably practiced thoughts during the 85th Academy Awards, or would you rather share your opinions while carousing...
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Get Ready for Mondo’s 2013 Oscar Posters Series With a Gallery of Designs for...
Tomorrow, during the Academy Awards ceremony and telecast, Mondo will be unveiling new posters for sale tied to the Oscar-nominated films (visit the shop here). It’s their second year doing a special...
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Review: ‘Red Flag’ Spotlights the Wry, Dry Alex Karpovsky We’ve Come to...
Editor’s Note: This review originally ran during the 2012 LAFF, but we’re re-running it now as the film opens in limited theatrical release. There are few things that navel-gazing filmmakers like...
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Who We Predicted to Win the 2013 Oscars
Welcome back to Hollywood’s Prom Night, everyone. In a little over 24 hours, hundreds of the movie industry’s shining stars will take awkward photographs by a fireplace at their mother’s behest, cram...
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Fund This Film: Inspirational Batman Documentary ‘Legends of the Knight’
Do you wonder why so many people are sooooooo obsessed with Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies? The new documentary Legends of the Knight may not directly address that specific question, but it does...
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Review: ‘Dark Skies’ Forgets That Sometimes Less is Less
For better or worse the horror genre often seems to move in trends. From the bloodthirsty animal terrors and slasher films of the ’70s and ’80s to the J-horror remakes and (so-called) torture porn of...
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Movie House of Worship: Denver’s Sie FilmCenter
“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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‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2′ Officially Declared the Worst...
The 33rd annual Golden Raspberry Awards — or Razzies — were held yesterday in Santa Monica, and for the first time in the series’ history, the Twilight Saga took the top (dis)honor of Worst Picture....
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Watch the 1980 Documentary Version of ‘Argo’
If you’ve ever put your complete trust in a documentary, you might want to — no, you need to — take a look at Escape from Iran: The Inside Story. This 1980 film, produced by Les Harris for the CBC,...
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The Hypocrisy of ‘Snitch’: Why the Movie’s Departure From the True Story...
Editors note: this discussion features spoilers for the movie Snitch. Read at your own discretion. When you sit down to watch a Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson action vehicle like Snitch, you generally...
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Watch Ewan McGregor in His 1993 Film Debut ‘Family Style’
Short Starts presents a weekly short film from the start of a filmmaker or actor’s career. Twenty years ago, a young Ewan McGregor began his acting career with a short film made for Channel 4 called...
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6 Scenes We Love From ‘Falling Down’
What better way to celebrate Oscar night than to post about a movie that should have received a bunch of Academy Award nominations and didn’t get a single one. Yes, 1993 was a great year for film, but...
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The 2013 Oscar Winners
Editor’s Note: This article will be updated in real time as the winners come in during the Academy Awards broadcast. Please join us for our Live-Blog tonight (because we ask nicely), and while you...
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Meet the New ‘Amazing Spider-Man,’ Same as the Old ‘Amazing Spider-Man’
The fine folks over at Coming Soon have scored an official image of the Spidey suit from The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and the result is something big and bold albeit a bit familiar. Plus, if you’re...
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7 Great Criterion Films Featuring the Stars of ‘Amour’
Michael Haneke’s much-lauded Amour, which won Best Foreign Language Film last night at the Oscars, has at its center two powerhouses of modern European art cinema: Jean-Louis Trintignant and...
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The One Where I Suggest Renting ‘Holy Motors’ and ‘The Master’ But Buying the...
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. A Simple Life Roger (Andy Lau) is a movie producer who returns home to find that the woman...
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L’Atalante: Loving Something We Don’t Like and Dying For Your Art
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss...
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