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Interview: Tarsem Singh on ‘Mirror, Mirror’ and What Michael Bay Was Like in...
When you watch a Tarsem Singh film, you figure out pretty damn quickly that you’re watching a Tarsem Singh film. The auteur filmmaker isn’t the type to play it safe, and he’s clearly not afraid of...
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‘The Hunger Games’ Sequel Seeks New Director After Gary Ross Announces He’s Full
Per The Playlist, the rumors have now been confirmed. Gary Ross will not be returning for the Hunger Games sequel, Catching Fire. The film is set to begin production this fall (which should allow time...
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Nicole Kidman to Play Grace Kelly in Olivier Dahan’s ‘Grace of Monaco’
In some “oh, wow, I totally forgot they were casting that” news, Variety reports that Nicole Kidman has “beaten out some stiff competition” to grab the role of Grace Kelly in Grace of Monaco. That...
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Review: ‘The Hunter’ Goes Beyond Killing Tale to Solid Character Study
Editor’s Note: This review first ran as part of our SXSW coverage on March 11, but The Hunter is hitting limited theaters this week. The Hunter is a film of surprising scope and intimacy. On the...
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30 Things We Learned From the ‘National Lampoon’s Vacation’ Commentary
Holiday rooooooooooad. Come on. You know the words. It’s that time of year when the weather is starting to heat up, families are planning their yearly excursions to the greater parts of the world, and...
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Movies to See Before the World Ends: Children of Men
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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Movie News After Dark: Shatner Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts, A Gorgeous Cabin in...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly collection of links and stories from around the world of movies, television and other mixed mediums. It’s a column that has worked hard this week, and...
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Scenes We Love: Nothing Says Easter Like The Chariot Race from ‘Ben-Hur’
In our inaugural weekly edition of Scenes We Love, I wanted to find a perfectly topical scene, seeing as it is Easter Sunday. But as it turns out, there aren’t too many great scenes worth revisiting...
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10 Incredibly Cool Movie Easter Eggs To Hunt For
If you’re “too old” to skulk around all hunch-backed in your own yard looking for the painted eggs your little cousin hid for you, why are you holding that remote with the Pause Button at the ready?...
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Blog of Thrones: Who’s Going to Hold You When ‘The Night Lands’?
If only one could create an opening credits sequence for a blog post, the one for this particular column would be as informational and visually pleasing as that of Game of Thrones. If you’re paying...
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Not So Fast: Gary Ross Might Play With ‘Catching Fire’ After All
After Rob won Best Headline last week with the story about Gary Ross potentially leaving The Hunger Games movies over a money issue, it appears as if it’s all still on the table. He’ll be meeting with...
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Trailer for the ‘Looper’ Trailer Features Rian Johnson and Joseph...
When did this trailer for the trailer thing become the norm? Was I napping or something? We’re now advertising for advertisements? Maybe that’s what happens when you give iTunes the exclusive – they...
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‘Livid’ is the Next Foreign Movie to Get an English-Language Remake
From Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, the directors of the brilliant movie Inside, Livid was an unfortunately scattered follow-up that could have used some serious reigning in. Rob was right to...
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Chill Out: James Bond Even Drank a Mint Julep Once
In a world with nothing much of interest happening (apparently), the internet got all aflutter when it was announced that James Bond would drink a Heineken in Skyfall. People everywhere were freaking...
View ArticleShort Film Of The Day: The Nightmares Within Nightmares of ‘Halbschlaf’
Why Watch? Compelling camera work, tension ringing the doorbell at all hours of the night, and a chilling reality make this a fun/terrifying little flick. Ben (Nils Althaus) and Nina (Nina Buhlmann)...
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Science Attempts to Explain The Most Memorable Movie Quotes
Why do we remember “Nobody puts Baby in a corner” less than “We’ll always have Paris”? Do we remember it less? This rhetorical question, of course, comes from AFI’s list of 100 Most Memorable Movie...
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Morgan Spurlock’s Narrative Debut Finds Funding, Attaches Actors
Infamous big personality/camera hog Morgan Spurlock has made a cottage industry out of the documentary film. He first burst onto the scene with his 2004 feature, Super Size Me, which followed the...
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Austin Cinematic Limits: Catching Up With Mars, Jonny Mars
I first became aware of Jonny Mars during SXSW 2012, thanks to his role as Donnie in The Happy Poet. I have never been one to judge an actor on one performance, so it was not until I saw Mars the next...
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‘Glee’ Co-Creator Brad Falchuk to Rewrite New ‘Dirty Dancing’
If the attachment of High School Musical director Kenny Ortega to Lionsgate’s “musical reimagining” of Dirty Dancing didn’t clue you into the type of movie the studio is trying to make, then the...
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Greta Gerwig Spills Details About the Mysterious Movie She Wrote and Secretly...
Greta Gerwig is no stranger to screenwriting, as already in her young career she’s had writing credits on indie standouts like Nights and Weekends and Hannah Takes the Stairs. But, most recently,...
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