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First Poster And Trailer For Environmental Thriller The East
Brit Marling has become something of a staple at the Sundance Film Festival over the last few years. Her two previous films—“Another Earth” and “Sound of My Voice”—both premiered there, and her with her...
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Nicole Kidman Is A Bad, Bad Mother In The First Stoker Clip
The first clip from Park Chan-wook’s “Stoker” has hit the web in preparation for the film’s March 1 release date. Dominated by Nicole Kidman playing a horrible, horrible parent, she delivers a menacing tirade...
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Mama (2013) Movie Review
On the surface “Mama”, the new ghost story produced by Guillermo del Toro, has a number of things going for it. Two strong leads—including a gothed-out Academy Award nominee in Jessica Chastain, and “Game...
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Gangster Squad (2013) Movie Review
“Gangster Squad” is a film a lot of people may take the wrong way. Most of us thought we were in store for a gritty, violent gangster pic, and while there is plenty of...
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Only God Forgives Teaser May Be Short But It Will Pummel You
Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Only God Forgives” is one of my most anticipated movies of 2013. Described as a Muay Thai revenge western, how can it not be on the list. The follow up to...
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Colin Farrell And Noomi Rapace Contemplate Revenge In The First Dead Man Down Trailer
The last time Noomi Rapace and director Niels Arden Oplev teamed up was for the original adaptation of Steig Larson’s “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”. That story has some grim moments, the kind...
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New On Blu-Ray: The Wild Geese (1978)/Ashanti (1979)
Since its inception a few years back, Severin Films has been on point, tracking down and unleashing cool and obscure genre fare that you won’t find anywhere else on DVD. And they’re back at...
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Get Creeped Out By The First Six Minutes Of Maniac
“Maniac”, the remake of William Lustig’s 1980 slasher of the same name, hacks its way into theaters sometime in the spring of 2013, courtesy of IFC. Our very own James Mudge named it as...
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Eerie New Clip From Body Mod Horror American Mary
Jenn and Sylvia Soska (AKA the Twisted Twins) made quite a splash this past year with their body modification horror film, “American Mary”. The story dives into a shadowy world where people go to...
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Brent’s Top Ten Movies Of 2012
I couldn’t think of any clever or interesting takes on the end of the year list, so I’m going to stick with the old standby: the top ten (or so). These aren’t necessarily intended...
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Django Unchained (2012) Movie Review
Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 spaghetti western, “Django”, is legendary as the film that launched 100 unofficial sequels. This is obvious hyperbole and urban legend—to date only 30-something are accounted for—but it still spawned a crap...
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Les Misérables (2012) Movie Review
Having never read Victor Hugo’s novel, nor seen the legendary stage production, the vast majority of what I know about “Les Misérables” comes from an episode of “Animaniacs”. That said, I do love a...
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This Is 40 (2012) Movie Review
At this point you know exactly what you’re getting into when you sit down to watch a Judd Apatow movie. You’ll start out with some raucous, improvised humor—think frequent use of the word vagina...
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Crazy New Red Band Trailer For John Dies At The End
The more that comes out about Don Coscarelli’s “John Dies at the End”, the more awesome it seems, and this includes the new red band trailer. This manic video makes the movie look as...
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) Movie Review
It’s impossible for me to talk about “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” without first discussing the delivery mechanism. Over the past few months there has been much back and forth over the fact that...
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Robots And Monsters Duke It Out In The First Pacific Rim Trailer
You had me at giant monsters fighting giant robots. Anything beyond that is just frosting on the badass sci-fi cake that is Guillermo del Toro’s “Pacific Rim”. And if this first trailer for the...
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Check Out The Official Trailer For Indie Comedy Junk
Those wacky bastards behind “ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction” are at it again. Moving away from the undead comedy ranks, the team of Kevin Hamedani and Ramon Isao has taken aim at the film...
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The Soska Sisters’ body modification horror film, “American Mary”, made a sizeable ruckus at film festivals this fall. Capitalizing on that buzz, we now have a bloody new trailer to tease you and lure...
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Tom Cruise Talks Football In The First Oblivion Trailer
Even after the apocalypse people still like football. At least that’s the impression that you get from the first trailer for Joseph Kosinski’s (“Tron: Legacy”) new sci-fi jaunt, “Oblivion”. And star Tom Cruise, in...
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