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Test Your Film Knowledge with the Steven Soderbergh Obscure T-Shirt Guessing Game
As we mentioned earlier, recently-retired director Steven Soderbergh has launched an odd new website hocking everything from tote bags to photos to the promise of Singani, a favorite Bolivian liquor of the Oscar-winner.
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10 Essential Vegas Movies In The Hungover Spirit Of 'The Hangover Part III'
Las Vegas is one of those distinctly American creations: it was designed and built by a gangster, in the middle of a deathly desert, as a utopian celebration for bad behavior, gilded excessive-ness, criminal activity and off-color kitsch. It's a place where you can stay in intricately themed hotel/c...
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Immersed in Movies: Sizing Up 'Epic'
Blue Sky's biggest achievement on Epic was going naturalistic for a more believable animation style. However, scale was the biggest challenge in delineating the human and microscopic forest worlds, according to producer Michael Travers, production designer Greg Couch, and animation supervisors Galen...
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How 'The Dark Tower' Inspired 'Arrested Development' & More From Rolling Stone's Piece On The Show's Creator Mitch Hurwitz
If the hairs on the back of your neck are standing up it probably means you have Spidey-senses. It also means that the new season of "Arrested Development," available streaming instantly over Netflix, is about to drop on Sunday. We are so close to new episodes of the iconic cult series, about a fami...
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Shadow and Act3 commentslike0tweet0
Leaving a Legacy: Black Film Movements
Impressionism, expressionism, realism, surrealism, neo soul, abstract, Bauhaus, nouvelle vague, minimalist, Dogme 95, cubism, rococo, alternative, and vérité. These, and many more, represent the schools of thought created in various art forms. For as long as humans have recognized the importanc...
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Why 'Star Trek Into Darkness' Suggests J.J. Abrams Needs To Leave His Mystery Box Alone For A While
In 2007, J.J Abrams gave a TED talk about the mystery box; principally, a Tannen's Mystery Box he was bought by his grandfather from a magic store when he was a child. Abrams, in a typically articulate, engaging and funny address, talked about how the box had come to represent, for him, infinite pos...
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Ranking The 'Fast And Furious' Franchise Films From Best To Worst
This weekend sees the sixth (!) film in the "Fast and Furious" franchise, "Fast and Furious 6" (or, according to director Justin Lin, just "Furious Six") race into theaters. Once thought as a kind of also-ran franchise in the Universal canon, it has quickly become one of the studio's most important ...
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Watch the 10-Minute Cannes Trailer for Osamu Tezuka's "Buddha 2"
This past week, at the Cannes Film Festival, Toei has unveiled this ten-minute preview for their anime epic Buddha 2: Endless Journey. Based on Osamu Tezuka's classic manga series, the second part of a planned trilogy, the feature is scheduled to be released theatrically in Japan in February 2014.
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The Best & Worst Of 'Star Trek Into Darkness'
This past Friday saw the release of one of the more hotly-anticipated blockbusters of a packed summer; J.J Abrams' "Star Trek Into Darkness." The film was already on the radars of many, thanks to its well-liked 2009 predecessor, but sci-fi geeks everywhere became doubly keen to see when it was annou...
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A Feminist Analysis of Rodham - the Feature Film About Young Hillary Clinton
The script Rodham by Young Il Kim has been one of the scripts on the recent Blacklist -- it came in 4th -- that has made significant buzz before it even starts production. While we hoped when the buzz began that there would be some women on the team, we were none too pleased to read that James Pons...
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