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Go Into Hiding and Get Drunk with Denzel Washington in ‘Safe House’
Back in February, Safe House became the second movie of the year to crack $100 million. (The first, sadly enough, was The Vow, but who really wants to think about that?) With this film, Denzel...
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Murray, Herzog and Gosling: How Movie Stars Make Fame Interesting in the...
A few weeks ago, as the indie group Here We Go Magic traveled through Ohio, they encountered a tall, skinny hitchhiker who they quickly recognized to be the inimitable filmmaker/public...
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Test Your Movie Knowledge with Evan Seitz’s Keen Animated Videos
Evan Seitz creates excellent animations with minimalist flair. His work is hypnotizing both because the images seem to blossom from the middle of the screen – constantly attacking the viewer – and...
View ArticleWatch: ‘Measuring the Universe’ Offers a Beautifully Streamlined Physics Lesson
Why Watch? The full title should end with “About How We’re Incredibly Small But Definitely More Than A Little Bit Clever.” So we’re this speck on another speck that only seems enormous to us because...
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Blog of Thrones: ‘Valar Morghulis’ Isn’t the End of Things, It’s Merely the...
As HBO’s “Previously on Game of Thrones” reel runs to its completion and the theme rises, it’s hard not to be wistful upon the closing of the second season of this cult hit of a show. For those of you...
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Would ‘Hook’ Be a Classic On Par With ‘The Wizard of Oz’ If It Were Released...
Despite the fact that we’re getting pretty close to its 75 year anniversary, The Wizard of Oz is just as recognized and celebrated today as it’s ever been, and we’ll probably still be showing it to...
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Two By Two: Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’ Brings Logan Lerman and Douglas Booth...
Darren Aronofsky‘s Biblical epic Noah has been through enough chatter over the years to sink even the heartiest of souls, so it’s high time the filmmaker buckled down and began casting the rest of the...
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Ain’t That a Shame: Jon Favreau Reportedly Frontrunner for ‘Jersey Boys’...
Pardon me? In one of those weird twists of Hollywood casting (and crewing?), Variety reports that a well-regarded director (Jon Favreau) is the frontrunner to helm a beloved property (the cinematic...
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Which Superhero Might Lead Marvel’s Next Secret Project?
Joss Whedon’s The Avengers capped off the supposed first phase of Marvel’s cinematic superhero domination in spectacular fashion. It currently sits as the third highest-grossing film of all time (not...
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That’s It, Steve McQueen’s ‘Twelve Years a Slave’ Has the Best Cast of the Year
Seemingly not content to follow up his critically lauded Shame with a cast that only includes such names as Chiwitel Ejifior, Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Paul Dano, Taran Killam, Scoot McNairy,...
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Horror Legend Clive Barker Has Been Dug Up to Re-Write and Direct ‘Zombies...
Despite the fact that none of these movies that pit two famous movie creatures against each other and none of these B-movie tributes that present material that’s self-aware in its schlockiness have...
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‘Django Unchained’ Teaser Trailer Preview: At Least Some People Get Shot...
As is becoming scarily prevalent, Entertainment Tonight has nabbed a very cool first look at a film that most of their viewership probably don’t give a flying you-know-what about, but thems the...
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Movie News After Dark: Magic Crotch, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Star Trek...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly celebration of all that is good and right in the world. Mostly movie and television related stuff. A lot of love for Doctor Who and Game of Thrones, but...
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Review: ‘Prometheus’ Is Big, Bold Entertainment That Values Grand Ideas at...
Expectations can be dangerous things. Ridley Scott‘s twentieth feature film is a return to a genre that he hasn’t visited in thirty years, but it’s also one that’s simultaneously been quite good to...
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Horror Buff Tom Holland Will Come Out of Retirement to Fight Stephen King’s...
It’s been 16 years since Tom Holland‘s last feature film, Thinner, hit screens. It came at the end of a career of writing work like Class of 1984 and Psycho 2 and directing Fight Night and Fatal...
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‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Trailer Features All Your Favorite Video Game Characters
As it turns out, the ghosts from Pac-Man and Zangief from Street Fighter are part of an Anonymous support group and help each other through the hard times of being the villain. It’s a thankless job,...
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Kevin Smith’s ‘Spoilers’ Democratizes Movie Criticism
In 2010, after the release of the largely panned Cop Out, Kevin Smith tweeted a short but passionate polemic against movie critics (that most loathsome subsect of the human species who sit up in their...
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Rumor: Joe and Anthony Russo Will Direct ‘Captain America 2′
When it rains comic book movie news, it positively pours. After being named on the directorial short list (which also reportedly included F. Gary Gray and George Nolfi) for Captain America 2, brothers...
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6 Filmmaking Tips From Ridley Scott
Of the directors we’ve covered in this feature, Ridley Scott might be the most forward. He’s brash an unorthodox, and when speaks, you get the sense that he threw his filter in the trash years ago. At...
View ArticleWatch: ‘The Girl and the Fox’ is a Fantastical Animated Fairy Tale
Why Watch? Pay close attention to the outstanding lighting design in this animated short from Base14. It’s a combination of exaggeratedly detailed backgrounds and comic-strip-simple characters, but...
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