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Dark Shadows Begins Shooting Next Fall
While this is only incremental news, Sci-Fi Wire sat down in a roundtable with Dark Shadows producer Graham King, who confirmed that Tim Burton’s remake will begin shooting sometime next fall. Burton is currently...
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Not Just Another Teen Vampire Movie
At least this one, according to Heat Vision, will focus on the Dracula legend and not young women and the angsty, metrosexual vampires who love them. It’s an action-oriented movie called Vlad, which is...
Read More »Philip Seymour Hoffman is Finally the Master of PT Anderson’s Film
I don’t know if Paul Thomas Anderson has it out for religion; There Will be Blood weaved religion into its plot subtly but then unleashed a flourish of violence, living up to its title...
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Inglourious Basterds (2009) DVD Review
It’s a strange quirk of circumstance that I happened to watch Inglourious Basterds and Downfall on subsequent days. Actually, they make for odd bedfellows. One of them is about the fall of the Nazi...
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Downfall (2004) Movie Review
It seems to me that there is a metaphor embedded somewhere in Downfall, transforming what is at first glance just another World War II film into a provocative account of the final days of...
Read More »Keith Arem Goes From Call of Duty to Frost Road
There has been very little immigration between the worlds of videogames and films, but that doesn’t stop Keith Arem, director of the game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, from trying to direct a...
Read More »Trailer Number Three For Nine
With only twenty-five days until release, the third trailer for Nine finally reveals some of the story. Usually a music isn’t that contingent on story – the one prerequisite is that it’s cute or...
Read More »Reports of the Silver Surfer’s Death Greatly Exaggerated
Somehow, an interview Collider conducted with J. Michael Straczynski got contorted into reports that the Silver Surfer spinoff was effectively dead. Something was clearly lost in the translation since Straczynski took the time to...
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Alec Baldwin Quits While He’s Ahead
“I consider my entire movie career a complete failure,” says Alec Baldwin, the man who has just about acted in more films, sixty-five, than ER has episodes. The quote is taken by Reuters from...
Read More »Joe Wright Was Directing My Fair Lady, And Now He’s Not, And Now John Madden Is, And That’s The Way It Is…BOOM
Hall-of-Famer John Madden announced his stunning retirement earlier this year, leaving the NFL without its most famous ambassador for the first time since before cavemen could paint on walls, but Variety is announcing that...
Read More »Ben Kingsley Stars in Taj
Of all the great qualities of cinema, its ability to evoke empathy is probably its best. I have never been to India, but it’s easy to gain an appreciation for the country when the...
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John Hillcoat Finds The Promised Land
The Wettest County in the World by Matt Bondurant reminds me of a joke from Mad Men: having gone to Niagra Falls on a honeymoon, one of the characters sends back a postcard that...
Read More »The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Pictures
With seven novels, it’s difficult to tell just how far the movies will take the The Chronicles of Narnia series. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is the third film and the first with...
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New Daybreakers Trailer
Most of the horror related to vampire movies is predicated upon the fact that their presence is sparse and unexpected so that they have to hide in the dark. Daybreakers is one of those...
Read More »Good Things Come in Threes: New Nine Posters
Even if you have absolutely no interest in Rob Marshall’s Nine, the posters should be of interest to everybody, for reasons that are explicitly clear. There are three posters that basically all use the...
Read More »The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond Trailer
Having recently heard about this movie for the first time, I wondered why it seems so much like a secret. The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond is made from a Tennessee Williams screenplay that...
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Poster For Eli
In the future, apparently, everybody wears leather or robes or heavy jackets. It’s not necessarily a fashion statement; it’s just that all others clothes were incinerated during the apocalypse. I blame Mad Max for...
Read More »Clip and Poster From The Lovely Bones
The Lovely Bones is Peter Jackson’s first full length feature film spent in the director’s chair since King Kong, after having spent so many years invested in high budget fantasy and action films. He...
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So Much Depends Upon David Fincher
David Fincher has several films on his docket at the moment, but one of his more anticipated projects is The Goon, which is based on a comic book about a brawler who works for...
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