November 2007 - Posts

Neglected, animated.
Wed, Nov 7 2007 3:40 PM

We'd rather not start on Oscar talk yet, because there'll be plenty of time for it in the upcoming months...

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Odds: Tuesday - The deaths of Harry Potter, mumblecore.
Tue, Nov 6 2007 6:22 PM

In the new British TV movie "My Boy Jack," Daniel Radcliffe plays Rudyard Kipling's son, Lieutenant Jack Kipling, and dies...

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Inspired by the motion picture.
Tue, Nov 6 2007 5:52 PM

Jay-Z's album "American Gangster," which hits stores today, was inspired by the Ridley Scott film. Way inspired, if Rob Sheffield...

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Going commercial.
Tue, Nov 6 2007 4:47 PM

We really wouldn't have guessed from just watching them that those AT&T "Seamless World" commercials (the "Philawarepraguecago" and other multi-location...

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In the works: David O. Russell and Jackie O.
Tue, Nov 6 2007 2:39 PM

In the works: David O. Russell's follow-up to "I Heart Huckabees" (as if that's an act that could ever be...

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IFC News: "War Dance," Corbijn, Coens.
Mon, Nov 5 2007 4:23 PM

This week on IFC News: Aaron Hillis interviews Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine, the directors of doc "War Dance"...

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Odds: Friday - Strike! And, oil!
Fri, Nov 2 2007 5:55 PM

The writers strike is on, reports the Hollywood Reporter. We're not the first to say it, nor, we're sure, will...

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Critic wrangle: "American Gangster."
Fri, Nov 2 2007 5:09 PM

We're going to attempt to do this short and sweet from the plus side down, as there's plenty of praise...

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Critic wrangle: "Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten."
Fri, Nov 2 2007 4:01 PM

A few confessions regarding the impossibility of critical impartiality due to Clash fandom precede reviews of "Joe Strummer: The Future...

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Critic wrangle: "Fat Girls."
Fri, Nov 2 2007 3:23 PM

22-year-old Ash Christian wrote, directed, stars in and takes a bit of a critical beating for "Fat Girls," his film...

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Odds: Thursday - "Cloverfield" named, that Tarzan yell.
Thu, Nov 1 2007 6:32 PM

The hype machine formerly known as "Cloverfield" now has a title. That title is... "Cloverfield." We feel empty inside... why?...

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Leading men (and women).
Thu, Nov 1 2007 5:46 PM

Two grumpy pieces on how one should be famous in the British press: Jan Etherington at the Telegraph has a...

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In the works: Jarmusch does crime, Gilliam fantasy.
Thu, Nov 1 2007 4:48 PM

Jim Jarmusch's next film is tentatively titled "The Limits of Control," and will "center on a secretive, mysterious outlaw (Jarmusch's...

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Real life gangsters.
Thu, Nov 1 2007 3:19 PM

We don't expect so much from Sir Ridley Scott these days — we know, we know, that 17-hour director's cut...

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