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Who Would You Pick To Play The Remarkable Bessie Stringfield In A Film?
Here we go again with fantasy movie making. But who can you blame? Like my recent piece about Bass Reeves (HERE) there so many untold stories about extraordinary people that beg for big screen treatment, you wonder why do they keep making black rom-coms with Paula Patton or Taye Diggs?
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5 Things You Might Not Know About 'Star Trek Into Darkness'
This week, one of the most hotly anticipated (and deliberately mysterious) movies of the summer movie season boldly goes into theaters nationwide. "Star Trek Into Darkness" is director J.J. Abrams' follow-up to the ridiculously entertaining 2009 "Star Trek" reboot, which introduced audiences to a yo...
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Flashback To Will Smith's Feature Debut As Crippled Homeless Man In 'Where The Day Takes You'
Often when discussions are had about Will Smith's early acting career, and the dramatic turns he made that were counter to his immensely popular "Fresh Prince" image, and which many consider some of his best acting work, his performance in Six Degrees Of Separation is the film th...
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From Best To Worst: Elmore Leonard Movie Adaptations
Today sees the release of a sparkling new Criterion version of "3:10 To Yuma," the perpetually-underrated 1957 Western that's somewhat overshadowed by the more recent 2007 remake. Even those who have seen the earlier version may not be entirely aware that it's based on a short story by a man that we...
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Greta Gerwig on Her and Noah Baumbach's Personal Connection to 'Frances Ha,' Her Transition to Directing and What Makes a Good Director
Having starred in films by Whit Stillman, Woody Allen and Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig has officially become something of indie film's collective muse. After first turning heads with her raw, naturalistic performances in the "mumblecore" movement that she had a hand in spawning, she made a seamless t...
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John Boorman, Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight & Ned Beatty Talk 'Deliverance,' Casting, Marlon Brando & More
The 2013 TCM Classic Film Festival recently wrapped and we're still catching up on a number of great events that we got to sit in on. One of them was a screening of the '70s classic “Deliverance,” hosted by TCM host Ben Mankiewicz. Organizers managed to wrangle director John Boorman and three-quarte...
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Katie Aselton and Mark Duplass Talk Showing Off Action Star Chops Via Their Dark Thriller 'Black Rock'
"The Freebie" writer-director (and indie darling) Katie Aselton is back after her well-received debut with a film that couldn't be further from her winning romantic comedy. Boasting a screenplay by her husband and co-star on FX's hit series "The League," her second feature "Black Rock" centers on a ...
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Eastward Ho! How Marvel's 'Iron Man 3' Met China UPDATE
UPDATE: As new "Iron Man 3" scenes were added for specifically Chinese audiences upon the boffo film's release, the re-release of Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained," featuring three minutes cut from the original (including nudity scenes), is flopping in China. The film originally hit Chinese the...
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The 5 Most Ridiculous Things About 'The Great Gatsby,' Old Sport
Opening a bit bigger than expected this past weekend and getting ready to explode confetti over crowds at Cannes later this week, Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby, Carey Mulligan as Daisy and Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway, is totally ridiculous. It’s a rococo ...
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'Frances Ha' Breakout Mickey Sumner On Shooting Guerrilla Style for Noah Baumbach and Playing Patti Smith in Upcoming Film
Noah Baumbach's "Frances Ha" is full of big surprises. When it premiered at Telluride last September it seemed to materialize out of nowhere, having been shot in secret quite successfully the previous year. Another welcome surprise of the film is the unheralded arrival of young British actress Micke...
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