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Trippy trailer and poster for female assassin pic Violet & Daisy starring Saoirse Ronan and Alexis Bledel

Posted 13 years ago

In what looks like a female version of THE BOONDOCK SAINTS, the teenage assassin fantasy pic VIOLET & DAISY, starring Saoirse Ronan and Alexis Bledel, looks like a compelling mixture of different genres. The catch? It's the first features from...

First trailer and poster for David Gordon Green’s Prince Avalanche with Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch

Posted 13 years ago

Director David Gordon Green is an odd, but compelling mix. He’s directed some hilarious comedy (PINEAPPLE EXPRESS, Eastbound and Down) and moving drama’s (SNOW ANGELS, ALL THE REAL GIRLS), but hasn’t been consistent with either. Perhaps that’s not such a...

Review: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A young Pakistani man, Changez (Riz Ahmed), leaves his family in Lahore to study business at Princeton. From there, he graduates to a large Wall Street firm, and seems to have it all, including an admiring boss (Kiefer Sutherland),...

Review: Mud

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Two boys happen upon an outlaw in hiding and help him repair a boat and elude the men who are hunting him. REVIEW: Jeff Nichols is quickly becoming one of my favorite new directors. His 2007 debut, SHOTGUN STORIES,...

Review: It’s a Disaster

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: A group of friends (Rachel Boston, America Ferrera, Julia Stiles, David Cross, Jeff Grace, Erinn Hayes, Kevin M. Brennan, & Blaise Miller) meeting for their monthly couples brunch discover that a series of dirty bombs have been set off...

Watch the trailer for controversial Korean crime drama Pieta

Posted 13 years ago

PIETA, which beat THE MASTER for the grand prize at last year’s Venice Film Festival, is finally getting a North American release thanks to Drafthouse Films. Despite getting acclaim across the globe, PIETA failed to qualify for the Academy Award...

Review: Simon Killer

Posted 13 years ago

This review originally ran as part of our Sundance 2012 coverage. PLOT: Reeling from a bad breakup, a recent college grad, Simon (Brady Corbet) heads to Paris, where he hooks up with a prostitute (Mati Diop), who takes him in....

Review: Upstream Color

Posted 13 years ago

This review originally ran as part of our Sundance 2013 coverage. PLOT: Kris (Amy Seimetz) is an ambitious exec who, after a chance encounter at a nightclub, wakes up after several days to find she’s lost her job, along with...

Get reunited with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy in the first trailer for Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight

Posted 13 years ago

The third part of director Richard Linklater‘s relationship spanning series, BEFORE MIDNIGHT, starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy as bickering romantics who cross paths and exchange dialogue that dives deep into the heartbeat of two people struggling to love and...

Review: Wrong

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: When Dolph Springer’s beloved dog Paul disappears, he comes to the realization that his pet has been kidnapped. Soon, he is on a strange journey looking for Paul after he discovers who may have taken his dog. He persists...

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