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Our Second ActionFest Diary Knows All About The Raid, Donnie Yen, JCVD and...
If you’re just catching up, Junkfood Cinema auteur Brian Salisbury and I have driven across the country to attend ActionFest, a new film festival dedicated exclusively to the best in ass-kicking...
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‘Hunger Games’ Sequel ‘Catching Fire’ Calls Up ‘I Am Legend’ Director Francis...
After losing Gary Ross, Lionsgate put a bunch of names into a big bowl and finally pulled one out. Turns out, they can’t get enough of people named Lawrence. According to The Hollywood Reporter,...
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Review: Nonsenscial ‘The Lucky One’ Might Be the Worst Nicholas Sparks...
The latest cinematic adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks romance novel, The Lucky One is a messy, tone-deaf, and laughable movie outing, an embarrassment to director Scott Hicks (Shine, The Boys Are...
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Box Office Prediction: ‘The Hunger Games’ Set to Go Down in the Fourth
A chimpanzee, Zac Efron, Steve Harvey, and Katniss – Not Jennifer Lawrence – all have their palms on a brand new Dodge Challenger. Hemi. The last person with their hand on the car wins it, and,...
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Tony Danza Might Play Daddy for Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Darkly Comic...
Scientists still haven’t proven who the boss was, but Tony Danza is close to playing father to Joseph Gordon-Levitt‘s “porn-addicted, modern day Don Juan from New Jersey who sets out to become a less...
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Kevin Feige: ‘Ant-Man’ as Close as It’s Ever Been
Marvel, as it’s own studio, has been the production team that’s dreamed the impossible dream. In a few weeks, they’ll unleash a movie with more superheroes per capita than any before which also...
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Review: ‘Penumbra’ is as Bright as a Solar Eclipse
Editor’s Note: This originally ran as part of our Fantastic Fest coverage, but Penumbra is out in limited theaters this weekend (4/20). The “Crazy Religious” horror film can be one of the more...
View ArticleWatch: Stanley Kubrick’s First Film, ‘Day of the Fight’
Why Watch? It’s Stanley Kubrick‘s first movie. This newsreel short is swelling with history because of the iconic heights its creator would go on to. Perhaps someone smarter than I can “see” Kubrick...
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New ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ Posters Extoll the Virtues of the Summer’s Most...
You can keep your Avengers. You can have your Expendables. You can even take your Ridley Scott directed space operas and your Christopher Nolan-crafted epic conclusions — alright, so maybe The Dark...
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Guy Pearce Will Don a Lab Coat in ‘Iron Man 3’
Now that The Avengers is wrapped and ready to premiere, work is moving full speed ahead on the next installment of the Marvel heroes’ saga, Iron Man 3. Though the first two Iron Man movies were made...
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Movies to See Before the World Ends: Take Shelter
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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Don’t Worry, ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ Will Be a Hard-R
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter doesn’t exactly pop out as your typical summer blockbuster. To broadly compare it to this season’s offerings: it’s not based on a comic book, isn’t adapted from a toy...
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Brad Peyton Will Go From Directing Family Films to Directing That Fraggin’...
Director Brad Peyton had a nice little career going for himself, making movies that the whole family (read: anyone under 6) could enjoy like Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore and Journey 2:...
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Our Final ActionFest Diary Survives The Trip With The Endurance of Donnie Yen
If you’re just catching up with us, Junkfood Cinema head honcho Brian Salisbury and I have made the dubiously sane decision to trek 20+hours across the country to attend ActionFest, an upstart film...
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Glenn Ficarra and John Requa Want to ‘Focus’ On Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone...
The team of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa just keep on trucking. The pair, best known for scripts like Bad Santa and Bad News Bears, have lately turned their attentions to writing and directing films,...
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Movie News After Dark: Cougar Town, Famous Potheads, Lesbian Werewolves, Sin...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s still called Movie News After Dark, despite what the network says. We begin tonight with an example of one of the many great title cards from Cougar Town, a show...
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ActionFest Double Team Review: ‘A Gang Story’ is a Fresh Take on Familiar...
In an attempt to shake things up a bit and pay a bit of homage to the amazing fight sequences we saw at ActionFest, Brian and I will go back and forth on these reviews in a kind of point for point...
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Tribeca 2012 Reviews: ‘Sleepless Night,’ ‘Supporting Characters,’ and ‘Elles’
What’s always most exciting about film festivals is the range of different films available for watching and enjoying – all within the same period of time, and often in the same venues. That’s just as...
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ActionFest Double Team Review: Is ‘Goon’ The Best Indie Comedy Since ‘Super...
In an attempt to shake things up a bit and pay a bit of homage to the amazing fight sequences we saw at ActionFest, Brian and I will go back and forth on these reviews in a kind of point for point...
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Scenes We Love: Celebrate Earth Day with the Destructive Force of...
It’s difficult to read a statement like “Happy Earth Day” and not read it as “Happy Earth” Day. Which feels rather trite, as the Earth herself does not seem happy at all. In fact, recent years have...
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