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Review: ‘A Dangerous Method’ Stimulates Comically and Thoughtfully, Not So...
Do not expect a body horror show from A Dangerous Method. Do not expect someone grotesque mental or physical transformation. Do not expect kinky or unbelievably outlandish sex scenes. Most of all, do...
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Feast Upon This Exclusive Art from ‘The Hammer Vault’
This month, the folks at Titan Books have released a book that cult film fans will be dying for, right in time for you to add it to your Christmas shopping list and satisfy the most hardcore of your...
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Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum: Trailer for ‘Jack the Giant Killer’ Sprouts Up
Did you not already get your fill of the Jack and the Beanstalk myth from this year’s Puss in Boots? Good, because Bryan Singer has his own (live-action) take on the tale, and the results look to be...
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Robert Redford May Discover ‘All Is Lost’ With J.C. Chandor’s Next Feature
Perhaps one of the biggest surprises of this year’s awards circuit is just how many awards and nominations filmmaker J.C. Chandor has picked for his debut film, Margin Call. Chandor’s star-packed film...
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Debra Granik’s Obsession With Bones to Continue With ‘Rule of the Bone’
A months old interview that The Calgary Herald did with author Russell Banks is getting some new attention today, because The Playlist found a nugget of exciting movie news in it that has generally...
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The ‘Salmon Fishing in the Yemen’ Trailer Looks More Interesting Than it Sounds
Director Lasse Hallström’s newest picture, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, is about an eccentric sheik who loves fishing so much he’s willing to pay obscene amounts of money to create a permanent river in...
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Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card: December 16, 2011
This week, Fat Guy Kevin Carr goes rogue and infiltrates his local IMAX theater. First, he scales the wall of the plus-sized building and slides in undetected through the air vents. He slowly lowers...
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Review: ‘Young Adult’ is the Ultimate Anti-Coming-of-Age Story
“Guys like me are born to like girls like you.” If you’re one of those guys – someone who finds unrelenting asshole women irresistible – Young Adult will leave you with a new crush. If you’re a...
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A Very Junkfood Christmas: Elves
Welcome back to Junkfood Cinema; home of the fried food advent calendar. As December marches on, here at JFC it’s beginning to look a lot like Type-II diabetes. We are back yet again to roast a...
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Channel Guide: 5 Promising Midseason Series
After all of the hype from the fall television premieres has died down, we are now in for the second wave of excitement that happens midseason. If all of the shows that begin airing in September are...
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Review: ‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’ Is the Most Thrilling Piece of...
Opinions vary slightly on Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible franchise, but they generally go like this: Brian DePalma’s film is fantastic, John Woo’s follow-up is an epic abomination, and JJ Abrams’...
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Interview: Tomas Alfredson and Gary Oldman Talk ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’
Tomas Alfredson‘s directorial follow-up to the beloved Let the Right One In is, on the outside, appears to be a drastically different film. Taken at face value, Let the Right One In is about a boy...
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Box Office: Sherlock Shipwrecks the Shipmunks
Yeah, Chipmunks. How do you like it when we change your words? Another week of movies. Another week of slight disappointments. Sherlock came out on top, but both Game of Shadows and Alvin and the...
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Short Film Of The Day: National Geographic’s ‘Panama + City’
Why Watch? It’s your two-minute vacation to Panama. Using distinctive camera angles, this brief journey takes colorful shards of life and cements them together to create a vibrating stained glass...
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How to Protect Your Home from Holiday Prowlers (The Kevin McCallister Way)
The holidays are a time for families, gift-giving, and general peace on Earth. Unfortunately, it’s also a time of high crime rates, robberies, and evil-doers who take advantage of the innocent. With...
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Review: ‘Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel’ Effectively Tracks...
Roger Corman’s career in show business spans nearly 60 years, so audiences may initially wonder what might be left to say in a documentary about the exploitation master. Yet Alex Stapleton’s Corman’s...
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Boiling Point: Don’t Cry for Hollywood
Dear reader, I come to you bearing the gravest of news. Hollywood is not making enough money. Tragic, I know, but there is something we can do. Something we must do. We must get out our checkbooks and...
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‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Official Trailer: No Bootleg BS
Wow. Wow is all there is. With all eyes on Christopher Nolan to find a fitting ending for the massive phenomenon that he’s turned into an even more massive phenomenon, the director and everyone...
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And Then Also That ‘Wrath of the Titans’ Trailer Came Out
Here’s a fun way to release some movie news or marketing on a day when no one will care about it – drop a trailer onto Apple within the very hour that they premiere the first official trailer for The...
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2012 Sundance Film Festival: Four More Titles Added to Already-Stellar Line-Up
With the 2012 Sundance Film Festival kicking off in, oh my, God, is that right? just one month, it’s time that the fest announce its straggler titles – four more picks joining the already-phenomenal...
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