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Review: ‘Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps’ Is Messy But Still Entertaining

September 22, 2010 2:54 pm

As soon as that dopey 75th Anniversary version of the 20th Century Fox logo dissipates, the first sounds we hear in "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" are of a prison gate opening, and someone shuffling through ...

Interview: The Documentarians/Tricksters Behind ‘Catfish’

Drew

September 20, 2010 3:32 pm

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There's a movie, which opened in limited release this past weekend, that everyone is talking about that involves Facebook, but not Justin Timberlake. It's "Catfish," the emotionally engaging if somewhat questio...

Review: ‘Devil’ Has A Cool Conceit, But Not Much Else

Drew

September 18, 2010 3:18 pm

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"Devil" is the first in a projected series of movies from the diminishing-returns mind of M. Night Shyamalan under his dubiously named The Night Chronicles production shingle. Shyamalan came up with the story, ...

Review: ‘Catfish’ Is An Intriguing Documentary Thriller….Or Is It?

Drew

September 15, 2010 9:15 pm

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If you've seen the trailer for "Catfish," the Sundance splash that was netted by Brett Ratner and Rogue Pictures for over a million dollars, you get the gist: Nev Schulman, a young photographer in New York City...

Criterion December Releases: Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Cronos,’ ‘Videodrome’ On Blu & BBS Box On DVD

Drew

September 15, 2010 8:57 pm

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Criterion just announced its December slate, and while things are pretty thin, they are finally delivering a powerhouse they teased ages ago: Guillermo del Toro's debut feature, the vampire parable "Cronos."Out...

TIFF ’10 Review: ‘You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger’ Is Classic, If Familiar, Woody Allen

Drew

September 10, 2010 7:24 pm

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When trying to describe the new Woody Allen movie, you inevitably end up comparing it to an older Woody Allen movie. "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" resembles a number of the nervous auteur's previous film...

Pixar Making ‘Dr. Strange’ Movie? Don’t Bet On It

Drew

September 10, 2010 1:24 am

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Over at Bad Librarianship (via Cinemablend), cartoonish Brendan McCarthy was talking up his recent "Spider-Man: Fever" miniseries, which hits stores this week as a trade paperback (it's seriously brilliant - ev...

Pixar Unleashes Slew of ‘Newt’ Artwork (And Admits The Film Is Dead)

Drew

September 4, 2010 2:44 pm

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Back in February, reports surfaced of an insider scuttlebutt at Pixar that found production being canceled on "Newt," a romantic comedy about a pair of endangered amphibians, that was to have been the directori...

Exclusive: Roger Corman Hasn’t Seen ‘Piranha 3D’ Yet; Compares Christopher Nolan’s Career Arc To Those He Mentored

Drew

August 31, 2010 1:59 pm

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Roger Corman has had a hell of a year. The lovable, 84-year-old maestro/producer/ director and mentor of B-movie entertainment was the recipient of the Honorary Lifetime Achievement Oscar (where Quentin Tara...

Review: ‘Piranha 3D’ Is Three Dimensions Of Outlandish B-Movie Awesome

Drew

August 21, 2010 2:25 pm

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In "Piranha 3D," an outlandish and all together brilliant new shock-a-palooza from French director Alexandre Aja, Richard Dreyfuss, as a Matt Hooper-like schlub (he's dressed like the character and singing "Sho...

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