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Trailer: ‘Dear Zachary: A letter to a Son About His Father’

Kurt Kuenne’s documentary, which chronicles the life and death of his dead best friend, Dr. Andrew Bagby, in an effort for his friend’s young son (who happens to be in custody of the woman who killed his father) to have to chance to see w

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Scott Rudin Walks Away From ‘The Reader,’ Sore Loser, Or Bigger Man?

Neither, actually, it makes him a fool for ever trying to work with Harvey in the first place. Anyone with even half a brain would have known that when Harvey Weinstein got his way so that Stephen Daldry’s “The Reader,” the final co-production

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Review: “Happy-Go-Lucky”

Mike Leigh is known for crafting volatile tonal structures encompassed by an often darkly lit thematic world in such a way that his particular style of filmmaking, that being the integration of comedy, drama, suspense, realism, effervescence all int

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DC Rumour Mill: Josh Brolin as ‘Jonah Hex,’ Ryan Gosling as ‘Green Lantern,’ When The Hell Did These Guys Become Potential Comic Headliners?

According to Jeff Wells, Josh Brolin (to be seen as George Dubya Bush in next weekends’ ‘W.’) has signed a deal to star in the Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor directed “Jonah Hex,” based on the DC comic of the same title released for the fi

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‘Cleavage’ Graces The Cover Of Page Six Magazine

When the twins look as good as that, it’s only fair they be named separately from their mamma. Of course, Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks’ cleavage is a star unto itself, much like her bountiful, bodacious bottom, and they each deserve to gra

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Eight Short Documentaries Make The AMPAS Shortlist

“Tongzhi in Love” Every year around this time, a whole bunch of Academy shortlists are announced pertaining to a whole bunch of films most of us have never heard of mainly of the “short” filmmaking variety, mostly because the

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Early Reviews Of ‘W’ Are About As Winning As This Administrations Current Approval Rating

Maybe Oliver Stone was right when he said he wasn’t sure whether his new film would succeed. Depending on your perspective, early reviews for Stone’s George W. Bush biopic, “W” are either mixed and slightly better than Bush&#

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Review: “Breakfast With Scot”

“Breakfast with Scot” is a gay-themed comedy/drama, based on the book by Michael Downing, that isn’t especially funny or insightful, and ends up being every bit as convoluted as its foundations that barely keep it from collapsing like the medio

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Cronenberg & Denzel ‘Circle’ Cold War Spy Thriller, Julie Taymor Gathers Cast For ‘Tempest,’ Forest Whitaker To Star In and Direct ‘What A Wonderful World’

I Only Realised How Scary Cronenberg Is Right Now, Blimey… David Cronenberg and Denzel Washington: those are two names we’d never figure we’d hear in the same film together. An odd pairing, no? Well, Cronenberg is in talks to direct, a

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Lame: ‘Waltz With Bashir’ Not Eligible For Best Documentary Film At Oscars

A change in already Arcane Academy Awards rules and politics have made it so Ari Folman’s animated look at the 1983 Beirut massacre, “Waltz With Bashir,” won’t be eligible to run in the Best Documentary Film Oscar category acc

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‘Jerusalema’ Is South Africa’s Official, Albeit Late, Best Foreign Language Film Submission

“Jerusalema,” shot entirely in Johannesburg – the tarnished City of Gold, tells the rags to riches story of “African Robin Hood” Lucky Kunene (played by the talented Rapulana Seiphemo) directed by Ralph Ziman. Opening in Sou

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In A Shockingly Unpredictable Move, Burton Casts His Wife In ‘Alice,’ Anne Hathaway Gets A Role Too

A while back, I reported that Tim Burton had found his Alice for his upcoming take on the beloved Lewis Carroll novel in the form of Mia Wasikowska down under, and later it was reported that the Mad Hatter role had been given to Burton’s long

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Mike Leigh Says Don’t Dismiss ‘Happy Go Lucky’s Protagonist As Just “Unadulterated-ly Happy”

Is he speaking to directly to Jeffrey Wells? At the New York Film Festival, director Mike Leigh insisted that simply writing off the “Happy Go Lucky” protagonist (Poppy, brilliantly played by Sally Hawkins, though the character is divisiv

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New Layout - Nay.

Yeah, so, I decided the new layout just didn’t work, I guess I liked the idea, but it wasn’t exactly functional, I mean, on days when I post for than three blog entries, then what? It looks cool and everything, but it isn’t practical and I am l

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New Still From ‘The Reader,’ Winslet Looks Fierce To Say The Least

Ah, this brings me back to the good old days where seeing stills from my most anticipated movies would drive me insanely wild. Doesn’t Winslet say so much in that picture, without saying anything at all? Very awesome. Kate Winslet is now firmly in

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NYFF, Negative ‘Changeling’ Buzz

Clint Eastwood, most probably the most highly regarded filmmaker alive even if my fondness of his films is temperamental, in my books, makes the kind of movies that get the label ‘Oscar contenders’ before we even see so much as a still from the f

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Shia LaBeouf is Fine After ‘Transformers 2’ Set Accident, Thank Gawd

Shia has been through the wars lately, what with his car incident, the constant smear-campaign for him to just drop dead, his chain smoking, *ahem* and now this latest accident on the dangerous set of Michael Bay’s “Transformers: Revenge of the

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Trailer: ‘Sunshine Cleaning,’ Which I Have Been Looking Forward To Since Forever But Seemed To Have Fallen Off The Face Of The Earth

Sunshine Cleaning is a dramedy starring Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin and Steve Zahn premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January this year, and fell off the theatrical radar all together. It tells the story about a 30-something maid Rose

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Rodrigo Garcia And His Three Big Shot Amigos Prepare For “Mother and Child”

Rodrigo Garcia’s (“Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her,” “Nine Lives”) $4.5 million female-focused ensemble drama, which he has been working on for seven years, focusing on the intersecting storylines of a fifty-year-old woman, the d

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Weekend Attractions (3 – 5 October ’08)

Lord. Help. Us. All. My Best Friends Girl. A while back, I made a personal note to see every film Lizzy Chaplan was in. I stuffed up when “Cloverfield” opened, and I sure as hell will stuff up here by not seeing that latest film from the folks t

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AFI Gets ‘Che,’ ‘The Wrestler,’ Rome Gets ‘8,’ We Get ‘Kung Fu Panda 2,’ Melissa Leo & ‘Elegy’ Get Oscar Pushes & More

Melissa Leo is the first actress out of the gate this year in terms of studio pushing towards Oscar glory, with screeners sent out for Courtney Hunt’s “Frozen River,” which I still have not seen, just the other day. “Elegy” followed, an

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Trailer: ‘Let The Right One In’ A Swedish Vampire Film People Are Raving About

The trailer for “Let The Right One In” has hit the web. The Swedish vampire film that seems to have captivated our geek buddies at Slashfilm (said with affection, because of them we want to see it now) and hey it’s not an American h

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“Don’t Vote!,” Half The Celebrities Of The World Say. Will Anyone Listen Though?

One of my biggest rules of blogging, never talk about politics, unless someone else who happens to be affiliated with the world of film or television has something to do with it. So, this clip sees the likes of Ellen DeGeneres, Forest Whitaker, Dusti

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Cut-Off Day Was Yesterday, Rounding Up This Years Best Foreign Language Film Submissions

Wednesday saw the foreign language film selectors taking off their thinking caps and resting on the hope that their official submissions for Best Foreign Language Film appeal to the temperamental Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Cinemati

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Goodfellas 3? Martin Scorsese & Robert De Niro Reteam For The Organized Crime Mob Film, ‘Paint Houses’

We say “Goodfellas 3,” cause “Casino,” was practically, part 2, no? [ed. someone is screaming heresy somewhere, but let's face facts people] Variety reports that Marty Scorsese and Bobby DeNiro are reteaming again for another

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Leaked: Enthusiastic Internal MGM Memo About ‘Valkyrie’ And Its Chances At Box Office Success

Pot-stirrer, Nikki Finke is at it again. The shit disturbing blogger of Deadline Hollywood has published an internal MGM memo about the public perception of Tom Cruise’s upcoming WWII Nazi film, “Valkryie.” The memo basically shows

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Blind Activists Protest Release Of ‘Blindness’

The Baltimore-based National Federation of the Blind is planning a protest of the Fernando Meirelles’ (”City of God”) latest film, “Blindness,” when it is released on Friday. President of the organization, Marc Maurer be

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The Comeback Kid? Mickey Rourke In ‘The Wrestler’: Art Imitating Life

The Village Voice recently sat down with Mickey Rourke to talk about the trails and tribulations he had gone through t0 make his portrayal of Randy “The Ram” Robinson in Darren Aronofsky’s recent Toronto International Film Festival

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Spielberg Almost Directed ‘Benjamin Button,’ Once Thought Of As A Martin Short Comedy? And Other Things You Didn’t Know About Its ‘Curious’ Genesis

We’re finally getting around to parsing this New York Times article on David Fincher’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” It doesn’t tell us much that obsessives around this film (like us) don’t already know,

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Is Kristin Scott Thomas A Lock For Best Actress For ‘I’ve Love You So Long’?

Everyone is raving about French film, “I’ve Love You So Long,” (”Il y a longtemps que je t’aime”), and if you’re to believe the hype, Kristin Scott Thomas is already a shoo-in for an Oscar nomination (somethi

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Trailer: ‘Filth and Wisdom,’ Madonna’s Directorial Debut, If You Care

Madonna’s directorial debut starring Eugene Hutz, Holly Weston, and Vicky McClure and featuring the music of Hutz’s band, because she is so bored in her occurrenceless life, tells the story about three roommates, all outward culminations of diffe

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Extended Trailer Clip Thing: ‘Australia,’ Can You Say ‘Pretty’?

Ha! Today is the day of trailers featuring random music that I actually can spot all by myself without someone else telling me. Here, in this latest clip from Baz Luhrmann’s sprawling pre-World War II epic of gorgeous proportions, featuring my abs

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Trailer: ‘Seven Pounds,’ Screw Will Smith, It’s Rosario Dawson That Has Me Interested

“Seven Pounds,” a story about one man who changes the lives of seven strangers, is a dramatic feature directed by Gabriele Muccino that sees Will Smith teaming up again with the makers of “The Pursuit of Happyness” that garnered him a Best Ac

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Review: “The Edge of Heaven”

“The Edge of Heaven,” by one of my favourite filmmakers Fatih Akin whose “Head-On” is a complete knock-out of a film, is a masterful example of potency that culminates when life’s intricacies are placed under a microscope to expose the most

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‘The Reader’ To Open on December 12, Lucky You If You Live In LA/NY

A join statement just came in from the biggest psychos in Hollywood, Scott Rudin and Harvey Weinstein naturally, stating that they spent a long, romantic weekend being weird and psychotic together has been released and says the men got down to the im

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Ding Ding Ding: Tina Fey As Palin, Round Two

I think this one is just as funny as round one, and it is always nice to see Tina Fey. Always, especially when she is embraced, literally and figuratively, by them Pakistanis while adorning the physical resemblance to one of politics biggest fools.

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Obituary: Paul Newman (1925 – 2008)

A confirmed Awards Daily report says that one of Hollywood’s true icons in every sense of the word who had been fighting a losing battle to cancer for a while now, Paul Newman, has finally lost the fight at the age of 83. This is the most devastati

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Trailer: ‘Benjamin Button’ Finally Hits the Web

The full trailer for David Fincher’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” has finally been released. /Film got a hold of it, and Apple.com has the exclusive HD version. This time around, we get a much larger look at Tilda Swinton&#

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Film Festival: Apollo Film Festival ‘08, The “South African” Sundance

Cutting edge, inimitably South African films have travelled abroad to win Oscars, Golden and Silver Bears and a golden Stallion. But nothing makes a film more relevant or poignant than seeing the flickering images of South Africa’s contemporary rea

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Ben Kweller Gets “Choke”-afied Video for “The Rules”

You may not have gotten the memo yet but Ben Kweller is the sweetest & most adorable guy in indie rock. His song “The Rules” is featured in the trailers and on the soundtrack for “Choke” and the movie folks have created a

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Depp Signs On For ‘Pirates’ 4, Ang Lee’s ‘Taking Woodstock’ To Blow Your Mind, & More

As if the third one didn’t seem like overkill, Disney has announced that there will be a fourth instalment of “Pirates of the Carribean” and even more shocking, Johnny ‘Caption Jack Sparrow’ Depp actually agreed to sign on yet again. At fir

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‘Valkyrie’ Poster and Trailer, Awesome and Mediocre Respectively

Click to enlarge The poster is certainly better than I would have expected, there is a certain emptiness to it, a simple straightforwardness, that almost makes me forget about all its production woes that have caused most people to take a negative v

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Weekend Attractions (24 - 29 September ‘08)

If This Movie Doesn’t Touch You, Go Ahead And Touch Yourself Choke. I loved this. Not everyone else will. Just know that. “Choke,” adapted from Chuck Palahniuk’s sardonic anti-novel, is an absurdist slap in the face for mainstream ci

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Review: “Choke”

What would Jesus not do? “Choke,” adapted from Chuck Palahniuk’s sardonic anti-novel, is an absurdist slap in the face for mainstream cinema. Actor-turned-director Clark Gregg crafts a perversely original world inhibited by troupe of addicts an

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‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Season 5 Premiere Preview, “Dream a Little Dream of Me”

Time flies when you’re having fun, especially with the cool kids of Seattle Grace Hospital. Season Five. I’m sorry, what? It’s been that long already? Seriously. But it has, and here were are. After an especially off-centre season four, and I s

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Bookworms? Hell No. Harvey Weinstein And Scott Rudin May Kill Each Other Over The Release Of ‘The Reader’

Two of Hollywood’s biggest psychopaths, err heavyweights, Harvey Weinstein and Scott Rudin (once named one of New York’s most insane bosses by Gawker) are at odds over the release date of the film, “The Reader.” According to t

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SJP’s “Butter” Gets Picked Up For Early ’09

Just the other day I was asking around town about Sarah Jessica Parker’s “Spinning into Butter.” Naturally, no one had heard much about whether or not it was going to be released and some hadn’t heard about it at all. A direct-to-DVD release

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Trailers: ‘Gomorrah’ & ‘Medicine for Melancholy’

Ha! This has turned into the “week of releasing trailers for films that I have missed in some capacity or another,” and it isn’t exactly fun. But hey, I love trailers and both of these films sound endlessly fascinating. Both have been picked up

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Emmys ‘08: In A Schocking Turn of Events, ‘Adams,’ ‘Men’ and ‘Rock’ Come Out Tops

At 8-11PM ET, the who’s who of the television and movie, sorta, world flocked to wherever it is that the Emmys are held while I dreamt of Mad Men and 30 Rock getting it on and making effortlessly stylish, endlessly intelligent babies. So kudos to e

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Trailers: ‘Revolutionary Road’ & ‘Ballast,’ Both Look To Be Must-Sees, For Different Reasons

I didn’t post the previous trailer because Mary Hart’s voiceover annoyed me. Nothing against the film, because lord knows how much I am looking forward to the Sam Mendes adaptation of Richard Yates’ gloriously sophisticated novel, starring Mend

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