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Encapsulated Cinema: Detention, No Mercy, and The Dark Knight Rises
Detention (2011) “Torque” Director Joseph Kahn’s genre-bending head game “Detention” is the millennial “Scream”, except a lot more scatter-brained and unfocused. The film chronicles the adventures of several high school students, all of whom...
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Director Joseph Kahn’s Comedy Detention Head to DVD This July
I’m not sure how, but I missed director Joseph Kahn’s horror/comedy “Detention” when it enjoyed a limited theatrical run back in April. And that’s a shame, because I’ve heard nothing but great things about...
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This review was originally written on June 6, 2011 from a screening at SIFF. “Detention” opens in theaters this Friday. Is it time to start wistfully longing for the 1990s already? Since “Take Me...
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Splattery New Poster for Director Joseph Kahn’s Horror Flick Detention
Now that Josh Hutcherson is in an insanely profitable motion picture that has catapulted him to instant stardom, why not cover one of his movie’s that been sitting on the proverbial shelf for a...
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Joseph Kahn’s Detention Finally Gets Released, Plus New Clip
Joseph Kahn’s “Detention”, the former music video director’s big-screen follow-up to his badly received motorcycle actioner “Torque” (a film that I personally liked, but then again, that may just be the former rider in...
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Sony Pictures Picks Up Joseph Kahn’s Detention
Sony Pictures has announced that they’ve picked up former music video director turned movie director Joseph Kahn’s wacky time-traveling comedy/horror/slasher film “Detention” for worldwide distribution. Raves Sony’s Scott Shooman about the pick-up: This is...
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Trailer for Joseph Kahn’s Detention. Like Scream, But with More Fake Teen Angst
Wow. I don’t know what’s funnier — that director Joseph Kahn is dissing his own film (“Torque”) in this trailer for “Detention”, or the fact that “Detention” is coming out at the same time...
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Another Image from Joseph Kahn’s Detention
Along with their announcements of films that will be showing (some premiering) at their festival later next month, SXSW also has full pages that include synopsis and images from some of their movies. One...
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Detention (2011) Movie Preview, Images, and Videos
Starring: Josh Hutcherson, Dane Cook, Shanley Caswell, Spencer Locke, Aaron David Johnson, Walter Perez, Erica Shaffer, Parker Bagley, Alison Woods Directed by: Joseph Kahn Release Date: April 13, 2012 It’s another year at Grizzly...
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First Look at Joseph Kahn’s Time-Traveling Horror-Comedy Detention
Director Joseph Kahn has released the first image from his upcoming movie “Detention” via Twitter. You remember Kahn, right? MTV music video director extraordinare turned director of “Torque”? He hasn’t done anything since that...
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Josh Hutcherson and Dane Cook Must Survive Murder in Detention
It wasn’t all that long ago that a lot of film executives got it into their heads that it was a clever idea to give guys who made their bones directing 5-minute flashy music...
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