This week: Cannes, More PR Nonsense from Netflix, Jax and Clay Together Again Bro, and Paris Hilton Cries Delicious Tears.
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Tags: Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Dance of Reality, Alex Gibney, Alexander Payne, Alexey Balabnov, Angelina Jolie, Ari Folman's The COngress, Bradley Manning, Cannes, Catching Fire, Charlie Hunnam, Charlie Kaufman, Claire Denis, Coen Bros, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Cosmos, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Disney, Donnie Yen, Drew Struzan, Emma Watson, Europe Report, Ghost in the Shell, guillermo del toro, Inside Llewyn Davis, james franco, jean-pierre jeunet, jennifer lawrence, Jeremy Saulnier's Blue Ruin, Jerry Seinfeld, Jia Zhangeke's A Touch of Sin, julian assange, Justin Marks, Katniss Everdeen, Koreeda Hirokazu, Merida, michelle yeoh, Nation Treasure, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Netflix, Pacific Rim, Paris Hilton, Pedro Almodovar's I'm So Excited, Pixar's Brave, Ron Perlman, Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale Station, Sofia Coppola, The Bling Ring, The Catcher in the Rye, The Young and Prodigious Spivet, Toy Story, Un Certain Regard, Wikileaks, Yeun Wo Ping
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Between offending Sarah Palin fans, the start of principal photography on House of Cards Season 2 and the supposed Great Purge of titles that hit this week, Netflix had an interesting week. Sarah Palin is not worth talking about — ever, and we know nothing about House of Cards yet. Streamaggedon, as it was called, is...
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Tags: Anette Benning, Badges of Fury, Disney, Emma Watson, Fast Six, Girl Most Likely, Harmony Korine, Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises, House of Cards, Jet Li, John Ford, John Williams, Kiki's Delivery Service, Kristin Wiig, Larry Clark's Kids, Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac, Mark Hamill, mickey mouse, Netflix, Oscars, Quentin Tarantino, Short films, Sofia Coppola, Star Wars, Studio Ghibli, Terrence Malick, The Bling Ring, The Hangover, The Tree of Life, Voyage of Time, Warner Archive Instant, William Friedkin
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I don’t know if it was the “big” news of the week, but in an interview with Comic Book Resources this week, Hellboy creator and artist Mike Mignola quashed any hope of a third Hellboy movie. I’m not necessarily disappointed that there won’t be a Hellboy 3 (I really hated Hellboy 2, aside from Ron Perlman as HB),...
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Tags: Adrian Tomine, Alan Zweibel, Donkey Kong, Elysium, Emma Watson, ESPN 30 for 30, Hellboy, Honus Wagner T206, I Give it a Year, jerry beck, Jodie Foster, Mario Bros, Matt Damon, Mike Mignola, Nintendo, Oldboy, Rian Johnsong, Rob Schneider, Rogert Ebert, Ron Perlman, Shane Carruth, Shigeru Miyaomoto, Sofia Coppola, Spike Lee, Steve Carell, The Bling Ring, The Way Way Back, To the Wonder, Upstream Color, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Wizard of Oz, Wong Kar Wai's Grandmasters
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I think even people who have been living under a rock are aware of the passing of Roger Ebert earlier this week from complications due to a reemergence of the cancer that took his jaw and his ability to speak, but never took his voice. I can’t quite remember the last time I’ve seen...
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Tags: 42, Anna Karina, Anne Hathaway, Asghar Farhadi's The Past, Band of Outsiders, Bryan Singer, Chadwick Boseman, Disney, Emma Watson, Gene Siskel, Jackie Robinson, Jean-Luc Godard, Juno Temple, LucasArts, Lucasfilm, Michelle Obama, Nicholas Hoult, nicolas winding refn, Only God Forgives, Paul Newman, Rhianna, Roger Ebert, ryan gosling, Seth Rogan, Sofia Coppola, Terrence Malick's To the Wonder, The Bling Ring, The Brass Teapot, This is the End, Tony Raynes, Wesley Snipes, x-men, yasujiro ozu
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It’ll be a light roundup this week. Not related to St. Patrick’s Day, I just spent most of the week curled in the fetal position, whining and whimpering between coughing fits because I had the flu. I didn’t look at the real news much this week aside from the new Pope, never mind movie...
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Tags: 50 Shades of Gray, Audrey Tautou, Blade Runner, Chiara Clemente, Christopher Doyle, Django Unchained, Emma Watson, Ennio Morricone, Harmony Korine, Jules Stewart, K-11, kristen stewart, Matteo Garrone: The Player, Michel Gondry, Mood Indigo, Quentin Tarantino, Redbox Instant, Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out, Spring Breakers, Una Furtiva Lagrima
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Ugh, day light savings time, I hate you so much. I feel completely out of sorts for the entire day every time you happen. I feel like today is a wasted day even though that’s irrational. Anyway, it’s another week and another slate of film festivals to talk about. I’m at neither one of...
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Tags: A Year in the Life of Wayne;s Phone, Alex Winter, Andrew Bujalski, batman, Blade Runner, Blue Jasmine, Brian Poyser, Calvin and Hobbes, Cate Blanchette, danny boyle, Dear Mr. Watterson, Disney, Emma Watson, Eric Heisserer's Hours, Geni Rodriquez, george clooney, George Lucas, Good Ol Freda, Goro Miyazaki, Hayao Miyazak, Hemlock Grove, House of Cards, Jayne Mansfield, Joe Swanberg, John Milius, Julianne Moore, Lucasfilm, Lukas Vojir, Michael Haneke, Michel Gondry, Napster, Netflix, Park Chan-wook, Paul Walker, sally hawkins, Shane Carruth, Sofia Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Steve Coogan, Stoker, Superman, sxsw, The Beatles, The Bling Ring, The Flaming Lips, The Rolling Stones' Tip of the Tongue, Trance, Upstream Color, Wayne Coyne, What Maisie Knew, Woody Allen
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I usually don’t have any interest in box office numbers since they’re reported all wrong (by gross dollar amount instead of by admissions sold), but this weekend was striking. Five big new releases and all of them did pretty poorly, though when you look at what they are, it’s not really a surprise. Trouble...
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Tags: 42 Movie, A Bittersweet Life, Alex Gibney, Alfonso Cuaron, amy adams, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, bruce willis, Cameron Crowe's Singles, Chris Nilan, Clint Eastwood, Daniel Day Lewis, Dark Tower, Dredd, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, House at the End of the Street, ILM, JJ Abrams, joaquin phoenix, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Justin Timberlake, Knuckleball!, Logan Lerman, Looper, Mae Whitman, Matt Damon, Park Chan-wook, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Philip Seym, Rian Johnson, Star Wars, Stephen Chbosky, Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, Stoker, the hobbit, The Last Enforcer, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Trouble with the Curve, War Horse
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It was a hell of a rough seven days, days that saw the end of Tony Scott, Phyllis Diller, Jerry Nelson and Neil Armstrong. For our purposes here, Tony Scott was the biggest loss, but personally, while I liked the other three, I admired the hell out of Neil Armstrong as much for his...
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Tags: amy adams, Apollo 11, Art Institutes, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Bone Brigade, bruce willis, Carrie Remake, Chloe Moretz, Crimson Tide, Criterion, Die Hard, Dreamworks Animation, Emma Watson, Fast Six, For All Mankind, Hitchcock, Howard's End, Jerry Nelson, joaquin phoenix, John McTirnen, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Looper, Merchant Ivory, Michael Winterbottom, Neil Armstrong, ParaNorman, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Phyllis Diller, Pixar's Brave, Quvenzhané Wallis, Stacy Peralta, Steven Soderbergh, Taking of the Pelham 123, The Girl, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Tony Hawk, tony scott, Top Gun, unstoppable
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I’ve been a few steps behind everything this week between setting up a new computer and the beginning of Euro 2012. Every year I bitch and moan about how horrible international football is, and about what a pain in the crack friendlies and qualifiers are (a high percentage of Arsenal players seem to come...
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Tags: 35mm, Andrew Dice Clay, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Audrey Tautou, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Ben Zeitlin, Danica McKellar, darren aronofsky, David Cronenberg's Comopolis, Disney's Wreck-It-Ralph, Douglas Booth, E.T., Emma Watson, Euro 2012, Fanny and Alexander, Fernando Meirelles's 360', Fred Savage, Harold and Maude, Jason Reitman's Labor Day, Kevin Arnold, Logan Lerman, Lola Versus, Michael Doret, Michel Gondry, Mood Indigo, Moonrise Kingdom, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Pixar, prometheus, Promises Written in Water, Ridley Scott, Robert Pattinson, Ruseell Crowe, Stephanie Zacharek, The Girl and the Fox, The War of the Buttons, Turn Me On Dammit, Tyler J. Kupferer, Vincent Gallo, Wes Anderson, Winnie Cooper, Woody Allen
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Movie news seemed to take a bit of a deep breath to catch up after the madness that is Cannes finally finished. To kill the time, I finally caught Men in Black III. Oh boy. Chalk up another victory for infamous Hollywood Braincloud. The most interesting thing to come out of that will have...
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Tags: 5 Broken Cameras, Alan Horne, Anne Hathaway, Ariel Awards, Braincloud, Cannes, christian bale, Disney, Disney's Paperman, E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Fighting Elegy, George Lucas, Gillian Anderson, Glenn Danzig, Haley Joel Osment, jeremy renner, Joe Eszterhas, John Carter, Kaneto Shindo, Kara Heyward, Kuroneko, les miserables, Logan Lerman, Looper, Mars Needs Moms, Men in Black III, Moonrise Kingdom, natalie portman, Onibaba, Pastorella, Pixar, Rachel Weisz, Steven Spielberg, Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups, The Avengers, The Bourne Legacy, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt, Tim Burton's Frankenweenie, Una Noche, Wes Anderson, Wolverine, x-men
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