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Wim Wenders to Give Architecture the 3D Treatment
A director that jumps between the world of fiction and the world of documentaries is a rare one, but Wim Wenders is no ordinary director. According to Christopher Campbell’s excellent interview over at...
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Boiling Point: The Year 2011 in Anger
Well here we are in the last week of December, coming up on another 365 days of anger at the entertainment industry. In 52 installments, I’ve been upset about a wide range of topics, criticized...
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Year in Review: The 22 Worst Films of 2011
There are two things you don’t want to watch getting made – sausage and the official Film School Rejects’s year-end worst-of list. Hideous, dirty, bloody, illegal stuff; many animals die in the...
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Why Watch? It’s weirdness wrapped up in the grainy elegance of the 1980s. This isn’t the surrealist Monkees film of the same name, but it might induce the same WTF reaction. In Benjamin Wong‘s odd...
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How Do You Judge a Year in Movies?
The ever-insightful Andrew O’Hehir has already called 2011 “Hollywood’s no good, very bad year,” in response to the lowest domestic box office take in three years, and that’s definitely one way to...
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Year in Review: The 11 Best Action Films of 2011
Some other sites or site runners may look down on lists, but those people are what are known as no-fun douche bags, because really, lists are awesome. They are short, easy to digest little morsels...
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New Batch of Official ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Images Give a Close-Up of Web...
The marketing machine behind The Amazing Spider-Man, the upcoming reboot of Peter Parker’s coming-of-age origin tale, hasn’t been giving us much to chew on lately. It was all the way back in July when...
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‘The Devil Inside’ Red Band Trailer Kicks Things Up a Notch
When the theatrical trailer was released for Paramount’s upcoming horror movie The Devil Inside, I responded to it by groaning and putting my face in my hands. There wasn’t anything in the footage that...
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Christina Hendricks Steps Back Into the 60s for ‘Bomb’
Some actors worry about keeping strict control over how the world perceives them and making sure that they don’t get typecast, but Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks seems to think that if you look that...
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Exploring The Twilight Zone #126: Living Doll
With the entire original run of The Twilight Zone available to watch instantly, we’re partnering with Twitch Film to cover all of the show’s 156 episodes. Are you brave enough to watch them all with...
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Year in Review: The Great Cinematic Heroes of 2011
There were some supposed protagonists I loathed this year — everyone in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, that asshole narcissist Hal Jordan, the annoying Jack Sparrow — but there were plenty who showed...
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Dominique Strauss-Khan Scandal Might Get Its Own Movie, Gerard Depardieu
We’ll probably never know what happened between the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Khan and the hotel maid who accused him of sexual harassment, Nafissatou...
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First ‘Magic Mike’ Pic: Matthew McConaughey Finally Goes Shirtless for a Movie
Color me shocked. After years of famously refusing to remove his clothing for films, Matthew McConaughey has finally given in and stripped down. Magic Mike must be a hell of a project to make him...
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‘Bad Ass’ Trailer: Danny Trejo Kicks Ass in a Fanny Pack
Anytime you can’t tell whether a trailer is for a real movie or a parodic lark, it reaffirms the need to give it a second or third look. That’s priceless for a lower budget movie based off an internet...
View ArticleShort Film Of The Day: Adam Wingard’s NSFW ‘Ultra Modern’
Why Watch? This year, the city of Talinn, Estonia created 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero, an experimental film project which saw a bunch of different directors from all over the world create a...
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Channel Guide: 5 Shows That Jumped the Shark in 2011
I’m not generally a fan of the phrase “jumped the shark.” I think it’s presumptuous; as if I personally decided the standards with which a show should continue, and how it should be evaluated. I know...
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Review: ‘The Flowers of War’ Finds Beauty and Heartbreak In One of Mankind’s...
Director Zhang Yimou is no stranger to epic period films that meld action with artistry to often stunningly beautiful effect, but films like Hero, House of Flying Daggers and Curse of the Golden...
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Over/Under: ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ vs. ‘Love Liza’
As 2011 crawls to a close and 2012 peeks its head over the horizon, many of us wayward souls find ourselves using the changing of the calendar as an excuse to make big changes in our lives and start...
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Exploring The Twilight Zone #127: The Old Man in the Cave
With the entire original run of The Twilight Zone available to watch instantly, we’re partnering with Twitch Film to cover all of the show’s 156 episodes. Are you brave enough to watch them all with...
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Weekly DVD Drinking Game: Final Destination 5
As the current year comes to a close, many people focus on the symbolic birth of the upcoming new year. But horror movie fans might be more inclined to focus on the death of the old one. In particular,...
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