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As big fans of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, we were excited to see The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the prequel that will subsequently launch a new trilogy. Helmed by Peter Jackson, the director behind Lord of the Rings, Th...
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Killing Them Softly writer-director Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) has said he sought to bring out the relevance of George V. Higgins’s 1974 novel Cogan’s Trade about the criminal un...
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The story behind Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock’s most popular movie and a cinematic masterpiece, has a good deal of drama built into it. Once he decided he would adapt Robert Bloch’s gruesome book into a film, the esteemed director ...
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Before Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) signed on to direct Life of Pi, the film based on Yann Martel’s 2001 fantasy novel by the same name, a few other notable directors came and went. First, it was M. Night Shyamalan ...
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Fresh out of a mental institution where he was sent after an over-the-top jealous outburst, Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) moves back into to his family home. While his parents welcome him back, their son’s return to everyday li...
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Ostensibly a Christmas movie, Rise of the Guardians, an animated 3D flick based on the William Joyce book series, has a pretty good twist. While it refers to both Santa and Jack Frost, it throws a few other magical childhood he...
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We’re not sure how 1984’s Red Dawn became a cult hit. The film’s cold war theme undoubtedly played into popular fears about a Soviet invasion. And the fact that a group of fearless teens survive and give the communists some ser...
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It’s often the case that film festival favorites don’t live up to the hype. A case in point is James Ponsoldt’s Smashed, a movie that won the “U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Independent Film Producing” at th...
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When the first James Bond film was released, it was at the height of the Cold War, which created incredible tension between the Western World and the Soviet Union and its communist allies. In this context, it made sense that We...
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Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph shows us what happens when a video game villain gets tired of playing the bad guy at every drop of a quarter. In Fix-It Felix, Jr., an old school Donkey Kong-like arcade game, Ralph (John C. Reilly) is p...