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Eli Roth’s Upcoming Disaster Movie, ‘Aftershock,’ Creates Bidding War
Unless you happen to be from Chile, you might not have ever heard of director Nicolas Lopez. But chances are you soon will. After creating the top grossing Chilean films in both 2010 and 2011 with Que...
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Sundance 2012: Experience the Interactive Storytelling of ‘Bear 71′ With New...
As mentioned in my interview with Franz the Bear, this year’s Sundance Film Festival not only featured films, documentaries, shorts, and memorable performances from established talent (John Hawkes) to...
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Trailer for ‘Take This Waltz’: Michelle Williams Succumbs to Moments in...
It will be perhaps my greatest cinematic accomplishment of the summer if I can somehow manage to walk out of a viewing of Sarah Polley‘s Take This Waltz without feeling an abject loathing for Michelle...
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Abel Ferrara and Gérard Depardieu to Dramatize the Dominique Strauss-Kahn Sex...
Director Abel Ferrara is no stranger to making movies about creeps – he did direct the original Bad Lieutenant after all – so he’s probably as good a choice as any to make a dramatization of the...
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Redbox Moves to Take Over the Home Video Market
Redbox kiosks have their good points and their bad points. On the one hand, you can’t beat renting newish home video releases for just a buck a night. That price beats any of the brick and mortar...
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Movie News After Dark: Community Goes Street Fighter, Jean Dujardin Gets...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly collection of movie and television news that throws caution to the wind, but never ever pees into the wind. That’s just not smart, friends. We begin this...
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‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Trailer Teases An Untold Story
The new trailer for Marc Webb’s Amazing Spider-Man reboot has just hit the web… and it doesn’t look bad at all! The film stars Andrew Garfield as the titular and angst-filled hero and Emma Stone as...
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First Look: The Video Game Worlds of ‘Wreck-It Ralph’
In Wreck-It Ralph, a villain (voiced by John C. Reilly) whose job is to bust up 8-bit buildings finds himself longing for more. It’s just like that time Donkey Kong started writing poetry and...
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Producers Deny ‘Blade Runner’ Will Be ‘Alien’ Prequel
“It is absolutely patently false that there has been any discussion about Harrison Ford being in Blade Runner. To be clear, what we are trying to do with Ridley now is go through the painstaking...
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‘Machete Kills’: Robert Rodriguez Will Fuck With the Wrong Mexican Again
It’s official. In a stunning turn of events that almost certainly mean it’s Opposite Day, Robert Rodriguez will make a movie he promised he’d make. Jokes aside, Deadline Michoacan is reporting that...
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James Wan’s ‘Warren Files’ Casts Creepy Kids
In 2010, Patrick Wilson got haunted in Insidious. In 1999, Lili Taylor got haunted in The Haunting. Now the two are heading back into the haunted house together with Vera Farmiga and Ron Livingston in...
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Culture Warrior: The First Oscar-Worthy Same Sex Kiss and The Academy’s...
The Oscar montage reel is a genre on its own. It’s transparently demonstrative of the overall function of the Academy Awards. These montage reels summarize and make explicit what the annual ceremony...
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We’re Bringing the Berlin Film Festival To You
So you can’t afford the plane ticket (or you’re afraid they’ll show Mr. Popper’s Penguins on your cross-Atlantic flight). So you can’t stand to wait outside in freezing temperatures. So you can’t...
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Austin Cinematic Limits: Spirited Away With Totoro and Friends
Co-founded in 1985 by Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki, Japan’s Studio Ghibli is famous for its masterfully crafted animated films. A retrospective series of newly struck, 35mm...
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Why Watch? In 1988, Pixar’s Tin Toy won the Oscar for Best Animated Short. The studio’s history after that is well known, but one of the shorts that it beat out for gold was just about as symbolic as...
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Over/Under: ‘Brokeback Mountain’ vs. ‘Weekend’
Brokeback Mountain had the highest opening weekend per screen average in 2005, and it went from opening in only five theaters to playing wide all over the world by the end of its run. Then, when award...
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Valentine’s Day Will Have to Soldier On Without ‘This Means War,’ Film Pushed...
It looks like your Valentine’s Day movie-going options might now be limited to The Vow, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Safe House, and maybe Rampart if you and your significant other are feeling...
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10 Truly Terrifying Horror Movie Jump Scares
If you’re anything like me you probably would take a good psychological scarring over some dick in a mask jumping out at you any day of the week – at least when it comes to horror films. Nowadays it...
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This Week In DVD: February 7th
Welcome back to This Week in DVD! Some great, good and sadly deficient releases await you including The Sunset Limited, Knuckle, season two of Rocko’s Modern Life, the second to last Twilight film and...
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Amy Adams Will Be ‘An Object of Beauty’ for Steve Martin Adaptation
Steve Martin‘s talents extend far beyond just stand-up comedy, acting, sombrero-wearing, and banjo-playing, as the multi-hyphenate has also dabbled in the writing world, including a swim with fiction...
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