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Why ‘Premium Rush’ Is The Long Lost Sequel To ‘BMX Bandits’
Welcome back to Junkfood Cinema; training wheels are sexy, dammit. You cycled your way through all the worthwhile content on the Internet, and fifteen minutes later you wound up here. Every week we...
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See Ethan Hawke Get Tortured in ‘Sinister’ Before Any of Your Friends Do
If you’re looking forward to Scott Derrickson‘s Sinister, then you may want to get in on this chance to catch his restrained horror film sooner rather than later. The movie had its “surprise” premiere...
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Hugh Laurie Will Not Play ‘RoboCop’ Role He Was Never Confirmed For in the...
Earlier this summer, word hit the wire that Hugh Laurie was in talks to play the villain in the upcoming remake of RoboCop, and there’s a reason why that news was never confirmed – because it’s not...
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Review: ‘Neighboring Sounds’ Breeds Paranoia, Mistrust and Growing Unease
The Brazilian city of Racife is like any other urban locale. It’s a big, bustling mix of upper and lower class residents, there’s a sense that anything could happen here and the place is never truly...
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Indie Auteur Lisa Cholodenko to Tackle a Murder Mystery
Director Lisa Cholodenko’s latest film, and her biggest success to date, was the domestic drama with paternity issues The Kids Are All Right. Starring names like Mark Ruffalo, Annette Bening, Julianne...
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Robert Redford Sells ‘The Company You Keep’ Before It Plays Any Festivals
The latest directorial effort from screen legend Robert Redford, The Company You Keep, was all set to make a big splash and impress distributors at the upcoming deal-making feeding grounds that are...
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‘Candy Store’ Trying to Entice Brad Pitt and Christoph Waltz to Come Inside
Stephen Gaghan isn’t exactly a household name, but he’s a creative type whose work you’re likely familiar with. Not only does he have a hefty screenwriting résumé that includes titles like Rules of...
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Adrien Brody Latest Actor to Move to ‘Motor City’
Let’s take this moment to recount the many actors who have been attached to star in Albert Hughes‘ Motor City. First, Dominic Cooper was set as the lead, then he left and Jake Gyllenhaal looked poised...
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Movie News After Dark: Stan Lee Nude, Sherlock Series 3, When Harry Met...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s the ongoing saga of one man’s quest to catalog every great movie and TV-related link the blogosphere has to offer. It happens on weeknights, just before bed time,...
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‘Chinese Zodiac’ Trailer Showcases What Might Be Jackie Chan’s Most Thrilling...
Though his recent action-heavy output hasn’t really been blowing anybody’s hair back, Jackie Chan is undeniably a legend of action cinema, and there are quite a few reasons why his next release,...
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Director George Nolfi to Pucker Up With Facebook Thriller ‘XOXO’
With social media infiltrating the minutiae of daily existence, it’s only inevitable that the prevalence of such things would seep into the multiplex. And, of course, movie theaters near you will soon...
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Rumor: Batman to be Rebooted First By ‘Justice League’ Movie in 2015
According to Batman On Film, there is a rumor floating around that Justice League will be used as a launching pad for a rebooted Batman franchise. It may be a rumor, but it feels like common sense....
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‘The Citizen’ Trailer: 9/11 Through the Eyes of a Middle Eastern Immigrant
“What brought you to this country?” “I wanted to be an American.” In Sam Kadi‘s The Citizen, Ibrahim (Khaled Nabawy) wins the citizenship lottery and immigrates to the United States on September 10,...
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Our Citizen Kane: Rupert Murdoch Biopic In Development
Just last week, Landon and I discussed the risk Orson Welles and RKO took in making Citizen Kane, likening it to a major studio making a fictional movie based on Rupert Murdoch at the height of his...
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Live in Austin? Vote For FSR in the Chronicle’s Best of Ballot
Considering our exhaustive coverage of SXSW and Fantastic Fest; our nomination of Alamo Drafthouse CEO Tim League for a Nobel Peace Prize; and our weekly spotlight on Austin filmmaking from Don...
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Watch: An Incredibly Dull Clip for ‘Spring Breakers’
Youthful angst. Is it a worthwhile topic? Maybe, but the ratio of excellent examinations to abject failures is a daunting one. Every writer who’s ever felt isolated in high school (read: every writer)...
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6 Filmmaking Tips From Frank Darabont
There’s only a 7 year gap between Frank Darabont delivering A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and delivering The Shawshank Redemption. He wrote the script for the first and wrote and...
View ArticleWatch: ‘Ever Dark’ is a Low Budget Experiment in Frantic Tragedy
Why Watch? There’s little room for joy in Quinn da Matta‘s experimental short about trying to impress your father beyond the point of reason. That can usually be a stumbling block; not showing what...
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Ryan Gosling’s Inevitable Directorial Debut Is a “Modern Day Fairytale”...
And you thought the most lasting piece from Drive was that tragic scorpion jacket hanging in your closet and all those College jams blasting out of your stereo! Turns out, the modern noir from...
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Sarah Polley Finally Reveals Which Family Her Documentary Debut Chronicles:...
Last month, a press release revealed that multi-hyphenate (and multi-talented) Sarah Polley had lensed her very first documentary feature, Stories We Tell, which had been previously kept somewhat...
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