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Interview: Kevin Smith isn't the silent type
When you ask people who clearly are upset what's wrong, they typically will reply "nothing," because they don't want to talk about it — or they will take the opposite approach and tell you exactly what's got them down, starting from beginning to end...
Tags: Red State (movie), Movies, Zack and Miri Make a Porno (movie), Heroin, Arts and Culture
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McDonagh sets violently funny 'Seven Psychopaths' in epic desert ★★★
Brutal and often very funny, "Seven Psychopaths" is writer-director Martin McDonagh's answer to "Barton Fink," a crimson yarn that, like that Coen brothers film, imagines what happens in a worst-case-scenario when a Hollywood scribe comes down with...
Tags: A Serious Man (movie), Sam Rockwell, Criminals, Seven Psychopaths (movie), Michael Pitt
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'Zero Dark Thirty' a first draft of history ★★★★
To consider what director Kathryn Bigelow has accomplished in "Zero Dark Thirty," imagine the events depicted by the story if they'd been given the "Argo" treatment. Not to take anything away from that rousing true (-ish) story of hostages freed and...
Tags: The Hurt Locker (movie), Movies, Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Ehle, Chris Pratt
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Stars pick the directors they want to watch
Let's say there's a row of beautiful movie theaters, and the marquee of each one reads, "New film by (name of filmmaker here)." And let's say there's no other information about the film itself. Which one would you choose? We offered this dilemma to some...
Tags: Inception (movie), Movies, Fred Armisen, The Impossible (movie), The Woman in Black (movie)
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Toronto's Hollywood juggernaut can't swamp indie pleasures
In "Argo," one of the leanest satisfactions of this year's massive Toronto International Film Festival, director and star Ben Affleck anchors a movie based on the true story about how Central Intelligence Agency operative Tony Mendez faked his way into...
Tags: Michael Haneke, Tom Hanks, Sony Corp., Movies, Joe Wright
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Set an evening aside for Goodman's 'Matinee'
John Goodman is everywhere right now. Such has been the case for this popular actor for a long time, but at the multiplexes presently he's a valuable ensemble member in two worthwhile pictures, "Argo" (in which he plays a real-life Hollywood makeup artist...
Tags: Flight (movie), University of Chicago, Key West, John Goodman, Central Intelligence Agency
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CIA Memo Shows Mark Boal Changed 'Zero Dark Thirty' at Agency's Request
ReutersMay 07 (TheWrap.com) - "Zero Dark Thirty" screenwriter Mark Boal acquiesced to CIA requests to change material in the film that would have reflected poorly on the agency, according to a newly declassified memo. The drama's depiction of the role torture...Tags: Freedom of Information Act, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Politics, Espionage and Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
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'Great Gatsby' Tracks for $40M Debut, But It's in a Tight Spot, Old Sport
ReutersMay 06 (TheWrap.com) - "The Great Gatsby," likely the priciest costume drama ever made, will be in a tight spot at the box office when it opens Friday. The latest tracking and analysts' projectons have the film, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey...Tags: Man of Steel (movie), Movies, The Hangover (movie), Epic (movie), Jack the Giant Slayer (movie)
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Hollywood bets big on blockbusters, starting with 'Iron Man 3'
Summer is the season for blockbusters at the box office, and this year Hollywood is going all in. Midway through a year of declining attendance and ticket sales, the major studios are betting heavily on big-budget spectacles that can fatten the bottom...Tags: Jerry Bruckheimer , Services and Shopping, Labor Day, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., John Carter (movie)
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Ben Affleck, Jimmy Kimmel, Vince Vaughn to Be Honored at Guys Choice Awards
ReutersMay 02 (TheWrap.com) - Never mind the Oscars; "Argo" director Ben Affleck is about to achieve the true pinnacle of show-business achievement: the Guy of the Year Award. Affleck will be crowned as the year's alpha-dude at the Guys Choice awards, Spike TV'...Tags: The Walking Dead (tv program), Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Daniel Day-Lewis, Human Interest, Breaking Bad (tv program)
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Anticipating the Oscars: These might contend
My Academy Awards predictions — and honestly, why not start now, a month before the nominations are announced? — carry an odor akin to Paul Rudd's cologne in "Anchorman": 60 percent of the time, they're right every time. This week the awards...
Tags: Skyfall (movie), The Hurt Locker (movie), Jennifer Lawrence, Life of Pi (movie), Silver Linings Playbook (movie)
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Ben Affleck to receive honorary doctorate from Brown University
Good Ben Hunting! Ben Affleck is getting an honorary degree from Brown University. Is this life imitating art? The Academy Award-winning producer and philanthropist, 40, is set to receive the honorary degree from the Providence, R.I.-based...
Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ben Affleck, Movies, Education, Tougaloo College
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