Out in Theaters: BEFORE MIDNIGHT
Throughout it's 109 minutes, there is not an ounce of narrative fat asking to be skimmed off nor is there any pandering to a broad and blasé audience. The tender…
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ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND CONTINUES Trailer Channels 80's Racism and Fro-Hair
Bringing back together the bodacious foursome of Brick, Champ, Brian and Ron, Anchorman: The Legend Continues finally unleashes a trailer that actually shows some plot points. Fast-forwarding a decade into the 1980’s, everyone’s favorite sex-panthery news team is back to re-up a decade mostly devoid of one-liners. With all the original cast returning with Will...
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THE LEGO MOVIE Gets Lego Trailer
Gimmicky though it may seem, the Lego people have decided to move outside of the toys and video game platform and try their hand at a feature film. This first trailer offers a look at the legoverse which seems to have somehow ascertained the rights to a handful of franchises seeing how they throw DC...
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Trailer for Scorsese and Leo's THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Adapted from the personal memoirs of Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street is a true story of excess, greed and goopy morals in the corporate world that’ll play all out in the fifth collaboration from Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio. Undercut by Kanye West’s “Black Skinheads,” this first look seems more like a...
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Out in Theaters: MAN OF STEEL
Contrasting Man of Steel to Bryan Singer's Superman Returns, it is head and shoulders superior. DC Comics continues along the path set out for them by Nolan where a sense of reality is…
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Wrapping Up the Seattle International Film Festival
46 Days and 447 Films From Thursday, April 25 (with an official start date of May 16) to Sunday, June 9, the Seattle International Film Festival has screened 447 films, 31 of which I had a chance to watch. From opening with Joss Whedon’s Shakespearean piece Much Ado About Nothing, which I called “a...
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SIFF Review: THE BLING RING
“The Bling Ring”Directed by Sofia Coppola Starring Israel Broussard, Katie Chang, Emma Watson, Leslie Mann, Claire Julien, Taissa Farmiga Crime, Drama 90 Mins R In a funny way, The Bling Ring is Sofia Coppola‘s most accessible film to date. As cognizantly distant and empty-headed as the teens-on-a-tear at the center of the film are, Coppola...
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Trailer for Weinstein Sci-Fi SNOWPIERCER
Look past the grimy quality of this trailer for Snowpiercer and you might see a standard sci-fi. But why then are the Weinsteins picking this up for distribution? Well let’s just say they say faith in the director. Adapted from a French graphic novel, Joon-ho Bong‘s Snowpiercer follows a group of survivors as they race...
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Indulge in Slo-Mo, Ripped Dudes, and Cersei Lannister in 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE Trailer
As long as you expect more of the same with 300: Rise of an Empire, you’ll be sure to be in good hands as this sequel looks to deliver more slo-mo sword swinging, impractically beautiful (and doubtlessly nude) women amidst comic book-esque landscapes and impossibly muscular men doing implausible physical feats. While the original crew...
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Naomi Watts is Princess Di in DIANA Trailer
Naomi Watts has been circling an Oscar for a while now and this biopic may be her best shot at scoring gold. Chartering the final two years of the iconic “princess of the people,” Diana draws from the novel “Diana: Her Last Love” by Kate Snell which brings Diana’s secret love affair with Pakistani...