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Jennifer Lawrence tells Bradley Cooper the dirty things she did while depressed in this clip for Silver Linings Playbook

Posted 14 years ago

This clip from SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK is distracting on two different levels. Not sure if anyone noticed or not, but Jennifer Lawrence looks crazy good, especially as a brunette. Then her character talks about some down and dirty things she...

Directing round-up: Joe Carnahan teams up with Patrick Wilson; Francis Lawrence to complete The Hunger Games saga

Posted 14 years ago

According to Collider, director Francis Lawrence (CONSTANTINE, I AM LEGEND) is taking on the rest of THE HUNGER GAMES saga.  The filmmaker is currently shooting THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson, and has committed to...

Release date shuffle: Olympus Has Fallen, Zero Dark Thirty, The Guilt Trip, and Stand Up Guys

Posted 14 years ago

This is for those of you who, while at Halloween parties over the last few day, found yourself at a loss for new movie knowledge with which to impress the ladies and/or gents.  Let’s change that, shall we? OLYMPUS HAS...

Review: This Must Be The Place

Posted 14 years ago

NOTE: This review originally ran January 24th as part of our Sundance 2012 coverage. PLOT: When his father dies, a washed-up eighties pop star named Cheyenne (Sean Penn) leaves his Dublin estate, and his thoughtful wife (Frances McDormand) to travel...

Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel will take place 85 years ago

Posted 14 years ago

Wes Anderson is an acquired taste. If you don’t like your comedy dry and quirky, you probably aren’t a fan for his irreverent brand of white people problems. I love his films but have yet to be wowed since THE...

Gerard Butler vs. Nazis; set to star in WWII-set soccer drama The Death Match

Posted 14 years ago

Ah, Gerard Butler and his sports movies.  CHASING MAVERICKS didn’t bode so well at the box office and his next one, PLAYING FOR KEEPS, a much lighter soccor pic doesn’t look so hot either.  Regardless, Gerard is at it again,...

See Tippi Hedren’s screen test for The Birds and more in these clips from Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection (out now)

Posted 14 years ago

Alfred Hitchcock hit Blu-ray in a big way yesterday, with a fifteen film set titled Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection.  Featuring thirteen films never before seen on Blu-ray along with fifteen hours of bonus material and a brand new documentary...

The UnPopular Opinion: Heat

Posted 14 years ago

Michael Mann is probably the only director who has a catalogue of films that I love across the board. While they each of course have their own issues and certain elements which don’t quite work as well in execution as...

Review: A Late Quartet

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: When one of the members of a world-renowned instrumental quartet learns he is developing Parkinson’s disease, he decides to retire. After his announcement, the four musicians find themselves struggling to make sense of not only their professional lives, but...

Why didn’t Jeremy Renner take the lead in Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master?

Posted 14 years ago

Remember when Jeremy Renner had the lead in Paul Thomas Anderson’s THE MASTER long before Joaquin Phoenix came along? Or maybe this isn’t really how it was… In an interview with Graffiti With Punctuation, Anderson was asked about Renner’s involvement...

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