Alejandro Stepenberg

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Favorite Movies: The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Dark Knight, Dead Man, The read more Devil's Backbone, Drive, Excalibur, Field of Dreams, Gladiator, The Great Escape, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Hook, Insomnia, Jason and the Argonauts, Kingdom of Heaven, Let the Right One In, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Michael Clayton, Michael Collins, Munich, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Pan's Labyrinth, Pirate Radio, The Princess Bride, Remember the Titans, The Seventh Seal, Some Like It Hot, The Tree of Life, Trick 'r Treat.

Likes: Deadwood, Carnivale, Firefly, that smell after the rain, Tom Waits, film read more scores, Bioshock, Kingdom Hearts, pie, Ireland, wine, drinking wine in Ireland, Shakespeare, Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker, Calvin and Hobbes, thinly-veiled sexual euphemisms, Monty Python and bad puns.

The UnPopular Opinion: Silent Hill

Posted 14 years ago

THE UNPOPULAR OPINION is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATHED. We’re hoping this column will...

Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges follow-up Seven Psychopaths now has three brand new stills

Posted 14 years ago

Martin McDonagh’s IN BRUGES was brilliant for far more reasons than I have room or time to write about here, keenly capturing moments of brilliance, humor, darkness, violence, rage, terror, poetry, romantic possibility, moral discovery, and existential dilemma all with...

Marvel working with ABC to develop a TV series set in the universe of The Avengers

Posted 14 years ago

Before you get too worried – Marvel isn’t looking to let loose another “Heroes” on the world (though if they tried I think they’d have a much better idea of what they were doing). Should an AVENGERS-related television show ever...

Director Marc Webb may have a way to return to Spider-Man

Posted 14 years ago

When last we heard, director Marc Webb was encountering a few obstacles that lay in the way of his return to the Spider-Man franchise – namely, that Fox Searchlight claimed Webb still owed them one movie from a previous deal...

These two new Skyfall trailers herald Bond’s triumphant return to cinemas

Posted 14 years ago

Every time I see a piece of promotional material for SKYFALL, Bond’s return to cinemas shoots straight to the top of my most anticipated list for the remainder of 2012. Every singly bloody time. Everyone involved, from the cinematographer to...

Sing-off flick Pitch Perfect lays down four colorful character banners

Posted 14 years ago

The tagline “get pitch slapped” is so bad that it’s good. Good like I kept cracking up in the theater long after the trailer had ended and MAGIC MIKE had begun. Then I continued cracking up, though I eventually did...

The Counselor picks up John Leguizamo and a first look at Brad Pitt

Posted 14 years ago

After the expansive (and expensive) experiments of ROBIN HOOD and PROMETHEUS, Ridley Scott is returning to a much more contained kind of storytelling with his next directing endeavor – a Cormac McCarthy-scripted piece titled THE COUNSELOR that tells the tale...

Breaking Dawn Part 2 releases eleven promo images that redefine smoldering intensity

Posted 14 years ago

There is so much smolder going on in these pictures. The photoshopping of course doesn’t help in the least, adding a glossy layer of strangeness that is uncomfortably hypnotic. Kristen Stewart, being the Kristen Stewart that she is, gets the...

Darren Aronofsky casts Cain and Abel for his Noah epic

Posted 14 years ago

It’s best to lay aside all expectations when it comes to the work of Darren Aronofsky, and NOAH is very quickly asserting once again (after doing so several times over before) that it is no different in that respect from...