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LAFF Favorite ‘It’s A Disaster’ Picked Up By Oscilloscope, Obviously Not a...
Though it might often seem as if most of the wheeling and dealing that goes into the acquisition of festival films happens actually during festivals, there are plenty of worthy titles that end up...
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Review: ‘Sleepwalk With Me’ Is An Unexpectedly Hilarious and Accomplished...
Editor’s note: Festival favorite Sleepwalk With Me hits limited release this week, so what follows is a re-run of our Sundance review of the film, originally posted on January 27, 2012. Kate loved the...
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‘Passion’ Trailer: A New Cinematic Nightmare from Brian De Palma
The past decade hasn’t been too kind to Brian De Palma. The director’s past few films have been his most divisive and critically lashed efforts of his career. With disappointments like The Black...
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‘The Warped Forest’ Trailer Follows a Money Shot With Wonder, Beauty, and WTF
The job of a trailer is to convince viewers that they want to see the actual movie. You’d be forgiven for thinking they’re supposed to tell the entire story in 90 seconds as oftentimes that seems to...
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Eli Roth Is Ready to Invite You to ‘Thanksgiving’
When Grindhouse hit theaters back in 2007, its main attractions were Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s feature length segments of the anthology, Planet Terror and Death Proof. But after the...
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‘Lawless’ Star Reveals He’s Completed Work on Terrence Malick’s Next
Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett, Wes Bentley, Isabel Lucas, Joel Kinnaman, Imogen Poots, Freida Pinto, and Ryan O’Neal…with that cast, and others unmentioned, one would think Terrence...
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‘Cleopatra’ Loses Its Third Director (Sort Of); David Fincher Off Sony Project
Perhaps it’s time that we all faced facts – this Cleopatra remake just might not happen. In reality, it shouldn’t happen – after all, is anyone really demanding an Angelina Jolie-starring and...
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‘Butter’ Trailer Gives Us An Ensemble Cast Carving Butter (Not a Metaphor)
What exactly is Butter? Is it a mock-heroic portrayal of a small town woman’s overblown political aspirations? A domestic story about a man addicted to strip clubs? An inspirational tale about a...
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Director Neil Burger Might Get ‘Divergent’ With Next Big YA Adaptation
While it’s easy to scoff and snipe at the recent explosion of young adult novels making it to the big screen, it’s also a huge mistake to do so. Of course The Twilight Saga is to be thanked (blamed?)...
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Movie News After Dark: Zero Dark Awesome, Bicycle Movies, Breaking Buds and...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly column about movies that is comin’ at ya, like an adrenaline-crazed bike messenger doing 50 down Broadway… We begin this evening with a new image from...
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Chuck In HD! ‘Missing In Action 2: The Beginning’ Sends Chuck Norris Back In...
Scientists have worked tirelessly since the invention of Blu-ray looking for a way to capture the essence of Chuck Norris onto a high-definition disc. No matter how hard they tried though his fists,...
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‘Uncharted’ Loses Neil Burger, Gains ‘National Treasure’ Writing Duo
Ever since Neil Burger became attached to helm Uncharted well over a year ago there hasn’t been much movement on bringing the game to the big screen. With that lack of development, it comes to no...
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You’ll Get Jack Ryan in 2013 But Will Have to Wait on That Second ‘Dragon...
Apparently Sony is skittish after hearing about bacterially infected tattoo ink because the studio won’t be rushing the sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo out of the gate. Or, you know, maybe...
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Ellen Page to Star in Gay Rights Feature Adapted From Oscar-Winning Short
According to The Playlist, Incognito Pictures has agreed to finance Freeheld, a feature project starring Ellen Page as a woman denied the pension benefits of her female New Jersey police detective...
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Review: ‘Premium Rush’ Spins Its Wheels Toward Mediocrity
Wilee (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a NYC bike messenger, one of the best, and he couldn’t be happier. Sure, it’d be nice if his girlfriend Vanessa (Dania Ramirez) hadn’t broken up with him, if fellow...
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Hammer Films to Share New and Classic Films Through YouTube
Clicking aimlessly through the internet trying to figure out where you can see The Pirates of Blood River or The Satanic Rites of Dracula? Of course you are. What else would you be doing? Fortunately...
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The One Thing Every Director Needs
In The Words, Bradley Cooper stars as a writer who builds a bit of success off of another man’s work and sees that decision spiral outward (and downward). With Jonah Lehrer and Fareed Zakaria making...
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4 Screenwriting Tips to Help You Win the Four Stories Filmmaking Competition
You’ve only got 7 more days to enter the Four Stories Filmmaking Competition, which means you’ve either got to hustle or you’re still polishing and perfecting. Either way, we’ve decided to help out...
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A Guide To 21st Century Television Stock Characters
The precocious child; the old grump with a heart of gold; the plucky young woman, looking to make it in the big city all on her own, who spins around in the middle of a busy street with a big, stupid...
View ArticleWatch: ‘Batman: Puppet Master’ is an Outstanding Fan Film That Fits Easily...
Why Watch? Fan films are usually well-intentioned but terrible. It’s that rare fan film that stands out so far above its peers that it comes close to deserving mention amongst the studio-made efforts...
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