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Review: ‘This Means War’ Is a Tender, Affecting Gay Romance
Depending on how you interpret it, This Means War is either another insipid, aggressively convoluted candy-colored flick from that auteur of nothingness McG, or one of the great unrequited male love...
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Berlin Film Festival Review: ‘Death For Sale’ is Wasted Youth in a Desperate...
In Death For Sale, the three best friends that anyone could ever have falter under the weight of their petty crime lives and the economic reality facing twenty-somethings in Morocco. They’re lost...
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The Reject Report’s Spirit of Vengeance Means War
There’s a lot of anger in that headline, which should be noted since this is the week of Valentine’s Day and all that. Three new films find release, and while the Reese Witherspoon rom-com doesn’t...
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42 Things We Learned From the ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ Commentary
A lot of thought went into what quotes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail would be used for this intro. In the end, though, it was decided that you all probably know this film by heart, anyway. If...
View ArticleShort Film Of The Day: The Frozen Upside Down World of ‘Fishing Under Ice’
Why Watch? Finnish filmmaker Juuso Mettälä heads under a frozen lake to get all of his shots for a gravity-defying short film that toys around with fluid motion and perspective to beautiful results....
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‘I Am Legend’ Sequel Deal Set, But Don’t Call It a Prequel
The news that Warner Bros. has just made deals with Akiva Goldsman and Overbrook Entertainment to bring us an I Am Legend sequel is not surprising (as it’s been chattered about for years now), but it...
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Movies to See Before the World Ends: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The Mayans, the wise race of ancients who created hot cocoa, set December 21st, 2012 as the end date of their Calendar, which the intelligent and logical amongst us know signifies the day the world...
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Foreign Objects: Declaration of War (France)
There are few things in life as devastating and traumatic as having to watch your child confront a life-threatening illness. I assume so anyway. My own kids were booted out of the house at the age of...
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Junkfood Cinema: Slaughter’s Big Rip-Off
Welcome back to Junkfood Cinema; enjoy a bowl of our Sugar-Coated Pimp Smacks. We recently asked blaxploitation icon Isaac Hayes to write a theme song for this week’s entry. He politely declined, as...
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For Sure, Like Totally! MGM and Paramount Pick Commercial Director to Helm...
We’re going to get this out of the way and, like, totally quickly – I love Valley Girl. Unironically. I think it’s hilarious and weirdly romantic and that Nicolas Cage has never, ever looked better...
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Michael Fassbender to Work in the Weird World of ‘Irish Myths’
Over the past several years there has developed a sort of holy trinity of young actors whose careers I’m watching develop with great glee. Every time any of them come out with a new project, you can...
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Is Dwight Yoakam Exiting ‘The Lone Ranger’ a Bad Omen?
There’s some more bad news for director Gore Verbinski’s seemingly cursed venture The Lone Ranger. This film, that Verbinski is making with Disney, has been in development for quite a while now, and...
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Review: ‘Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance’ Offers Nicolas Cage in Fine Form
It’s easy to predict one’s response to Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. You either accept the idea of a flaming-skull Nicolas Cage sucking the souls out of leather jacket-clad baddies, or you don’t....
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Sebastián Silva’s Juno Temple and Michael Cera-Starring Thriller Finds...
When I first heard about Sebastián Silva’s next movie, Magic, Magic, I had yet to see any of the director’s work, but I was excited at the cast he had assembled, because it was made up mostly of hot...
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Merch Hunter: The Lizard, A Walking Dead Head, Monty Python’s Killer Bunny...
The merch world has been ablaze recently with talk of the annual Toy Fair, which as ever has teased some fantastic products set for release within the next year or so, with big news coming for the...
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Netflix Resurrects DVD-Only Plan; So Much for Focusing on Streaming
Looks like Netflix is again going back on a controversial decision, but perhaps too late to salvage any customers it might have lost in the first place. Last year, Netflix cut its bread-and-butter...
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Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card: February 17, 2012
This week, Fat Guy Kevin Carr takes the week off because the studios didn’t screen the new releases anywhere near him. In fact, he was specifically told not to come to one particular screening. And...
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Movie News After DRINKING: Ghost Rider, Mondo Oscar Posters, Stuff, Things,...
What is Movie News After Dark DRINKING? It’s what happens when Neil leaves and Kate Erbland and I joke about me doing this column drunk and then don’t realize that’s probably a bad idea until the next...
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Interview: McG Talks Populist Filmmaking, Absorbing Movies, and ‘This Means War’
This Means War is, as McG puts it, exactly what you think a McG movie is. It’s as commercial and open as a movie can get, something the director has no shame about. Plenty scoff at the idea of loving...
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Trailer for ‘Cherry’: A Girl Gone Wild, Plus Bonus Coked-Out James Franco
If this first trailer for Cherry is to be believed, stumbling into a career in pornography is shockingly easy – all it takes is one dirtbag boyfriend and one impressionable teenage girl. In Cherry,...
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