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Encapsulated Cinema: Detention, No Mercy, and The Dark Knight Rises

Encapsulated Cinema: Detention, No Mercy, and The Dark Knight Rises

Todd Rigney July 28, 2012

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

Director Joseph Kahn’s Comedy Detention Head to DVD This July

Todd Rigney June 5, 2012

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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Detention (2011) Movie Review

Detention (2011) Movie Review

Brent McKnight April 4, 2012

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

Splattery New Poster for Director Joseph Kahn’s Horror Flick Detention

Todd Rigney March 26, 2012

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 Finally Gets Released, Plus New Clip

Nix February 21, 2012

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 Picks Up Joseph Kahn’s Detention

Nix June 15, 2011

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

Trailer for Joseph Kahn’s Detention. Like Scream, But with More Fake Teen Angst

Nix March 2, 2011

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

Another Image from Joseph Kahn’s Detention

Nix February 2, 2011

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

Detention (2011) Movie Preview, Images, and Videos

Nix January 2, 2011

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

First Look at Joseph Kahn’s Time-Traveling Horror-Comedy Detention

Nix October 25, 2010

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

Josh Hutcherson and Dane Cook Must Survive Murder in Detention

Nix July 30, 2010

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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