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Review: ‘Oblivion’ Is Gorgeous Spectacle Painted With a Very Familiar Brush
Oblivion is many things. [pause for laughter from readers who've seen the film] It’s a thrilling mix of science fiction, action and discovery. It’s visually stunning and filled with beauties both CGI...
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Tribeca 2013 Review: Rock Doc ‘Mistaken for Strangers’ Sings With Heart and...
If you asked Matt Berninger what his younger brother, Tom Berninger, thinks of indie rock, he’d tell you it straight: “he thinks indie rock is pretentious bullshit.” Which is a bit of a problem,...
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Movie News After Dark: This Is The Darkest Timeline
Tonight on Movie News After Dark, Community is dead, the documentary is better, AMC is making sci-fi shows now and filmmakers are having their films taken away for no good reason. Everything is a...
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The Most Humongous Blockbusting Gigantic 2013 Summer Movie Preview Ever (w/...
It’s almost time for sunscreen, something you won’t need to purchase if you plan on staying in the cool, dark space of the movie theater from June through August. But what are you going to see? How...
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James Gunn on How ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Will Be Different From ‘Avengers’
A big team of superheroes, banding together to fight a larger evil force. There will obviously be more to Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, but the studio has got a winning formula that looks to be...
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Film Jockeys #19: Training For ‘Oblivion’
What happens when a legendary film critic brings is geriatric crankiness to an internet movie show? Film Jockeys follows the adventures of Carl Barker, his far-too-young production staff, the...
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Casting Couch: Will Smith Gains ‘Focus,’ David Cronenberg’s Next Casts Four,...
What is Casting Couch? It’s the casting news column that’s returning after a small vacation. There’s lots of stuff to catch up with, involving many of the most exciting actors working today, so let’s...
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Tribeca 2013 Review: ‘Byzantium’ Gets Lost in Its Own Seduction
Vampire movies are about sex. This has become practically a rule, and that’s totally okay. I have no problem with Taylor Lautner winning Best Shirtless Performance at the MTV Movie Awards. But if...
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4 Weirdly Specific Ideas Showing Up in Every Sci-Fi Blockbuster This Year
What with Iron Man 3, Oblivion, Elysium, Pacific Rim and the myriad other blockbusting sci-fi movies coming out, 2013 is shaping up to be a great year for the genre. If by “genre” you mean “these four...
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Tribeca 2013 Review: ‘Lenny Cooke’ Scores with Astonishing Footage
Imagine living every day of your life knowing that you are more famous for not amounting to anything than you are for your actual success. In Josh and Benny Safdie’s documentary, Lenny Cooke, the...
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Tribeca 2013 Review: ‘Oxyana’ is a Visceral Glimpse at Addiction
Oceana, West Virginia used to thrive via the coal mining industry. It was a town where you could leave your door open to your house overnight and wake up knowing you were safe. Then things changed as...
View ArticleSFotD: ‘Waste’ Fills the World with Amazing Pop-Up Paper Monsters
Why Watch? Dropping us into a world of vibrant creativity and trippy slackerism, this playful short from Anton Groves uses some fantastic design work to translate the hectic inner world of a loser...
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‘Star Wars’ Overkill, Gun Control and the Christopher Nolan of Silent Cinema...
It’s been a very crazy week in America. Not to make light of Monday’s tragedy at the Boston Marathon or any of the events since, but people have commented that following the developments has been like...
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Casting Couch: Jack Black and Will Ferrell Play ‘Tag,’ Cameron Diaz and Jason...
What is Casting Couch? A handy way to keep up with what all of your favorite actors are going to be up to in the coming months and years. Does that make you a stalker? Today we’ve got word on who’s...
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9 Big Questions Left Unanswered by ‘Oblivion’
Oblivion is the kind of science fiction movie that plays with a lot of other movies’ toys and forgets to clean them up afterward. Then we all step on a HAL 9000 doll in the middle of the night when...
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Tribeca 2013 Review: Emma Roberts Attempts to Move Into ‘Adult World’ With...
“Poet” as a career path isn’t exactly the safest or sanest route for the creative youth of America to take, but Amy Anderson (Emma Roberts) doesn’t appear to have taken that sort of thing (i.e. actual...
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Fund This Film: ‘Hotline’ Reminds Us of When We Got in Trouble for Calling...
Remember your first 900 number? Anyone who grew up in the 80s and early 90s called at least one hotline, probably without a parent’s permission. If you got in trouble for padding the phone bill with...
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Tribeca 2013 Review: ‘At Any Price’ Drowns In Cheese And Skewed Morals
At Any Price is truly a baffling film. At many times I found myself laughing, I found my mouth agape, I buried my head in my hands… And I hardly think that was the filmmaker’s intended audience...
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Review: ‘Unmade in China’ is an Absurd Tale of American Filmmakers Working on...
Documentaries about the production of a movie can go two ways. The film being filmed is completed without a hitch and the studio or distributor puts the “making of…” special on the DVD, or it’s a...
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Review: ‘Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay’ Is...
Magic, like many of the arts, seems to ebb and flow through our culture with its impact and essence growing and shrinking in importance from year to year. Of course, magic probably does far more of...
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