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Move Over Frankenstein and Snow White, Dueling Lego Movies Are the New Hotness
The future of the Lego film franchise isn’t yet written in stone, but what’s certain is that there are a number of studio execs out there really excited at the prospect of making movies about...
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‘The Woman in the Fifth’ Trailer Shows Ethan Hawke the Dark Side of Life in...
The basic premise of The Woman in the Fifth is that Ethan Hawke is playing an American writer who moves to Paris and strikes up a romance with a mysterious widow played by Kristin Scott Thomas. After...
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Movie News After Dark: Lizard Creeps, TDK Rising, Wes Anderson Bingo and Game...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly movie news column in a hurry. It’s late for a very big date. With you, dear reader. It’s always been you. Our top story tonight, The Amazing Spider-Man...
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Review: ‘Men in Black III’ Is a Semi-Return to Form
Men in Black II is one bad sequel. Everything the first film got right the second film painfully got wrong. Will Smith played Will Smith, the funny-for-two-minutes pug from the first film sang because...
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Review: ‘The Intouchables’ Is a Genuinely Inspirational Story of an Unlikely...
On the surface, The Intouchables sounds like another trite, feel-good movie about a mismatched pair of unlikely friends, who come together to inspire each other despite overwhelming odds. Or, maybe...
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Paul McCartney Video ‘My Valentine’ Featuring Johnny Depp and Natalie Portman...
Harvey Weinstein. This guy. He’s crazy like a fox, and not all of his moves can be understood ahead of time, which is why he often prevails. In the case of the music video for Paul McCartney‘s “My...
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‘Moonrise Kingdom’ Finds the Sweet But Sad Beauty In Young Romance and...
It’s the summer of 1965, and a storm is heading towards New Penzance Island. The small dot of land is home to a few permanent residences, but it’s also a seasonal destination for a troop of Khaki...
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‘No, Mr. Thor, I Expect You To Die’: Mads Mikkelsen Might Villainize ‘Thor 2′
Blood-crying Bond villain and skull crusher Mads Mikkelsen is in talks to play a villain in Thor 2 according to Variety. Great news or greatest news? The impeccable actor is fresh off of a strong...
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Von Trier’s ‘Nymphomaniac’ Synopsis Gets Strangely Erotic
So, here’s the official synopsis for Lars Von Trier‘s forthcoming Nymphomaniac which features Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgard and an overtly suggestive title: “Nymphomaniac is the wild and...
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Warners Gets Its Own Mysterious Sci-Fi Project with ‘The Wind’
Paramount and J.J. Abrams are planning a super secret sci-fi project, but they’re not the only ones in the game. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warners is staying in the science fiction business...
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Review: ‘Hick’ Is Misery Porn at Its Emptiest
Hick is an ugly piece work. The worst kind of bad. It’s a movie that believes it has something to say, but has nothing – a nothingess that comes after 90 minutes of misery. It’s a vapid mess about a...
View ArticleWatch: ‘Sympathy for a Dreamer’ Is a Sweet, Surprising Father/Son Trip to the...
Why Watch? Grant Jordan‘s short film takes a common dramatic twist and twists it to great effect. Sympathy for a Dreamer tells the story of a man beleaguered by the loss of his wife who takes trips to...
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Cannes Review: David Cronenberg’s ‘Cosmopolis’ Is An Impenetrable Fog of...
Though it is faintly vulgar to talk of any actors in terms of only one project, who would have thought a couple of years ago that the two lead actors from Twilight would both feature In Competition at...
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‘Invisible War’ Trailer Promises The Biggest Military Cover Up in History...
Fair warning – the trailer for Kirby Dick‘s newest documentary The Invisible War is fairly intense. It covers an impossibly difficult subject – the widespread sexual abuse in the US military. The raw...
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Review: ‘Chernobyl Diaries’ Fails to React or Something Atomic Like That
A well-made horror film can be one of the most enjoyable cinematic experiences a film buff can experience. If the film manages to hook you in the first act, drawing you into its web of a story, it can...
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Peter Bodganovich’s Triumphant Return to Movies About Theater Will Focus on...
It only took legendary filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich over three decades to write another film about the ins and outs and ups and downs of the theater – and who can blame him after the massive bomb that...
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‘Maniac’ Red Band Trailer Sees Elijah Wood Using His Otherworldy Qualities...
About a week ago a teaser trailer leaked to the net for Franck Khalfoun’s remake of the William Lustig horror film, Maniac. It gave us a glimpse of a knife-wielding, psychotic Elijah Wood, but wasn’t...
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‘Conan the Barbarian’ Reveals What Else Is Best In Life
Welcome back to Junkfood Cinema; the Riddle of Steel…is that Shaq should not play superheroes. You’ve entered a mythic realm of swords and sorcery, of Tangos and Cashes, of Mikes and Ikes. Every week,...
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Will Kevin Hart Risk a Legendary Career By Becoming Kevin James’s ‘Valet...
Blink and you may have missed it, but Kevin Hart is now pretty much the biggest comedian in the world. Though he’s not yet a household name in some Middle American holdouts, at some point in the last...
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Oliver Stone’s ‘Savages’ Smokes Up a Slew of Great Behind-the-Scenes Pictures
The other day, I labeled Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter as the “wild card” of the summer, and if there’s any other film which comes close to its riskiness (or more so?), it’s Oliver Stone‘s...
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