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‘On the Road’ Trailer: Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, and Kristen Stewart Are...
We’ve already seen a couple of trailers for Walter Salles‘ adaptation of Jack Kerouac‘s Beat classic On the Road, but the latest to hit may be the most arresting one yet. Thanks to sharp editing and a...
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‘About Cherry’ Red Band Trailer: James Franco Helps A Young Girl Get Into...
On the long list of professions people are surely curious to learn more about, you’d have to think “pornography” is near the top of the list. The taboo explicit sex genre has been at been the focus of...
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‘Price Check’ Trailer: Ugly Betty’s Boss Gets a Raise From Parker Posey
Parker Posey is one of those actresses you can count on to turn in an arresting performance even in the clumsiest of movies. So if nothing else, Michael Walker‘s Sundance comedy Price Check has that...
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‘Room 237′ Trailer: Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ Has Its Secrets Revealed
“Phenomenal…An Absolute Must-See.” That’s a quote taken from my review of the amazing documentary Room 237 and used in its first trailer. Truer words can’t be spoken. Directed by Rodney Ascher, the...
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‘On The Road’ Review: Jack Kerouac’s Classic Gets The Big Screen Treatment
On the Road is one of those books people live their life by. It changes perception. People read and reread it, discuss its particulars, and keep a copy in their luggage when they decide to act on its...
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The Entire Run of Jon Favreau’s ‘Dinner For Five’ is on YouTube
Before the days of Twitter, which allows access to the daily opinions of some of our favorite filmmakers on an immediate basis, many of us relied on Jon Favreau for connection to one part of the film...
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Sundance Acquisitions: ‘Austenland’, ‘The Look of Love’, ‘The Spectacular...
A few days after the kickoff the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, deal-making is in full swing. The well-reviewed drama The Spectacular Now, by Smashed director James Ponsoldt, is headed to newish...
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‘The Shining’ Documentary ‘Room 237′ Will Be Out March 29
Good news, Stanley Kubrick fans. The fantastic and fascinating documentary Room 237 directed by Rodney Ascher will be released by IFC Films on March 29. The film, which premiered at last year’s...
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‘Byzantium’ Trailer: Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan, Stained With Blood
If you’re attracted to the idea of a fable-like vampire tale but don’t want to forego big splashes of blood and big, baroque emotional arcs, then Neil Jordan‘s Byzantium might be one to see. The film...
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‘Room 237′ Trailer: What Mysteries Still Live in the Overlook Hotel?
An audience favorite film at Sundance and Fantastic Fest 2012 was Room 237, the documentary from Rodney Ascher that attempts to detail and unpack the various secrets of Stanley Kubrick‘s The Shining....
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‘Simon Killer’ Trailer
Sometimes it takes a long time for distributors to settle on a release plan for films they buy at Sundance. A couple of big 2012 titles are just now being teased to the public, for example. Take The...
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‘Simon Killer’ Domestic Trailer: A Tense, Pulsing Buildup to a Breakdown
The producing team behind Martha Marcy May Marlene also put together Simon Killer, a film that follows a young man (Brady Corbet) as he skips off to Europe following a breakup, and gets involved with...
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‘Frances Ha’ Trailer: Explaining How We Do Things We Don’t Actually Do
What is Frances Ha about? I’ve watched this trailer a couple times, and can’t quite tell you. Not because this is an Upstream Color situation, where the trailer is rather obscure, and the film it...
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‘Room 237′ Poster Echoes Original ‘The Shining’ One-Sheet
One of the better movie posters ever made is the Saul Bass design for Stanley Kubrick‘s The Shining. The eye-catching yellow sheet with a horrified, pixelated face was one of the strangest things I’d...
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‘Yeah!’ Enters The Online Movie Streaming Game With Pop Up Features
Have you ever flipped your TV to a movie and been delighted it was one of those presentations with facts that pop up on the screen? If so, you might want to know about a new site just launched that...
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New ‘Welcome To The Punch’ Trailer Released; Read Buzz From UK Release
Films like Guy Ritchie’s Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch and Matthew Vaughn’s Layer Cake represent a very particular kind of British crime drama. They’re modern, they’re slick, they have...
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/Film Interview: ‘Room 237′ Director Rodney Ascher
There’s no denying that Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is a film begging for discussion. A story that seems straightforward on the surface is littered with curious scenes and subliminal suggestions,...
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Watch the First Episode of Marc Maron’s New TV Show Online
This week, comedian turned podcaster Marc Maron will debut his brand new IFC show, Maron. The show gives an exaggerated spin to his meteoric rise to fame via the world of podcasting, much in the way...
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‘Berberian Sound Studio’ Trailer: Beware the Sound of Fear
Berberian Sound Studio started doing the festival rounds last year, but IFC is going to release it in the US this summer. Toby Jones plays a movie sound designer working on an Italian horror film, and...
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‘Ain’t Them Bodies Saints’ Teaser Poster Debut
David Lowery‘s film Ain’t Them Bodies Saints was one of the best films of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. IFC will bring it to theaters in August, and the film is screening in Cannes this weekend....
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