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Being unreasonably easy to scare, I'm a soft touch when it comes to horror movies and basically refuse to have anything to do with them at this point, but "The Exorcist" is one movie that's never bugged me. But it has scared the hell (heh) out of every Catholic I know; it's the...
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Greenpeace is a good organization that's kind of itchily annoying, the same way a college activist getting you to sign a worthy petition is -- a point driven home quite literally when Bruce Willis was whacking activists with golf balls from his oil rig in "Armageddon." That image might...
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Alan Polsky wanted to tell me a story about how Werner Herzog held a gun to his head and shattered his brother Gabe's eye socket with the butt of the pistol in the middle of shooting "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," but that was just wishful thinking. "We wanted things to...
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In his long and storied career, Sir Ben Kingsley has played Lenin, Dmitri Shostakovich, Simon Wiesenthal, Meyer Lansky, Moses and Sweeney Todd. Thanks to his half-Indian background, he's also frequently been a go-to generic Middle Easterner: one of his first parts was as a Pakistani cab-driver in...
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There's too many stupid movies these days based on comics, video and board games and theme park rides, but I'll skip the dearth of originality preamble and, well, just pass go and collect $200. That's because there's a new movie based on "Monopoly" in the pipeline and there's...
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David O. Russell ("I Heart Huckabees") and Tony Kaye ("American History X") are both fearsomely talented directors and, from most accounts, extremely difficult human beings; their projects attract trouble on a regular basis. Both had the bad luck to get tied up with Capitol Films...
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Chuck Klosterman's "Fargo Rock City" might be my favorite book about music, because it does the one thing great music writing should do: it sucks you in even if you don't care about the actual tunes at hand. In my case, I could care less about the collected musical legacies of Tesla...
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"Amelia" looks like the kind of splashy biopic that might as well come with the title suffix "Oscar Bait," but the reviews are rolling in, and it's looking like the awards thing won't be happening. All the cultural activity surrounding "Amelia" is turning out to...
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"Sin Nombre" director Cary Fukunaga is in "advanced negotiations" to direct a new "Jane Eyre," according to Variety. Which makes perfect sense, since there've only been 15 previous film adaptations and near as many TV versions, in addition to all of the ballets, musicals...
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Wes Anderson's "Fantastic Mr. Fox" had its world premiere at the London Film Festival this week. A boatload of reporters were there -- 250 print, 35 broadcast/online -- some on 20th Century Fox's dime. After wading through the many reports, here's what I've learned: The London...
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Richard Kelly might be one for two in terms of the movies he's had in theaters so far, with "Donnie Darko" arguably the only real cult classic of the decade and "Southland Tales"... not. But one thing he has been consistent with are the dense, enigmatic websites that support his...
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Anne Thompson at indieWIRE believes "Where The Wild Things Are" is too expensive to succeed commercially, and I think she's probably right. Standard movie math says a studio film needs to gross two and a half times its budget before it can start being profitable; in that case, "Where...
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As someone who dug the way this year's "Star Trek" reboot dug up memories from a few years of a wasted youth (let's not talk about it), I'm none too thrilled at this piece in the LA Times that suggests that for the sequel, J.J. Abrams & co. are considering adding topical political...
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Biopics about Important Men ironically tend to be Very Mediocre. So the fact that Toronto opening night film "Creation," a Charles Darwin drama directed by Jon Amiel (who once helmed the original "The Singing Detective" but lately has turned out the likes of "The Core")...
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Unless she changes her schtick, Diablo Cody, last year's fresh face of screenwriting success, could become next year's Shane Black or Joe Eszterhas, screenwriters who were briefly brand names until too many of their films tanked. In Cody's case, the rise/fall cycle's accelerated by the...
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