Lawless — Reviewed this week. (opened Wednesday, Aug. 29; R) The Oogieloves in the BIG Balloon Adventure — If you think the “full-bodied puppets” the Oogieloves look kinda reminiscent of the Teletubbies, it’s no accident: The latter’s American importer couldn’t get permission to spin them off into a feature film, so he just made...
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Tags: For Reels, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyra Sedgwick, lawless, Orlando Weekly, Steve Schneider, The Ooogieloves, The Possession, Tom Hardy
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What an incredibly, monumentally, stunningly boring week this was as far as film news goes. Between the blackouts in the Mid-Atlantic that knocked a bunch of web services offline and the 4th of July getting in the middle of everyone’s shit and Comic Con next weekend (and Scott Howson refusing to trade Rich Nash…...
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Tags: 2 Days in New York, 4D, Alexander Gellner's One Minute Puberty, Alison Pill, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Caroline Torres' 21 Years in 7 Minutes, Chris Messina, Chris Rock, Christopher Nolan, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Gael Garcia Bernal, Gary Oldman, guy pearce, Hani Furstenburg, Hellboy, Jerry Seinfeld, jesse eisenberg, Jessica Chastain, John Ford, John Hillcoa, Julie Delpy, Jurassic Park, Larry David, mark wahlberg, Mia Waskowska, Mila Kunis, Neil Labute, Peter Bagdonavich, peter jackson, Pixar, Ron Perlman, Seth MacFarlane's Ted, Shia LaBeouf, Steven Spielberg, The Dark Knight Rises, the hobbit, The Loneliest Planet, Tom Hardy, Why Stop Now
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Well, the first week of Cannes is over and if someone held a gun to your head and said “pick a frontrunner for the Palme d’Or”, you’d have to say it’s Jacques Audiard’s Rust & Bone, though it likely won’t win (going by the buzz, Marion Cotillard seems like a high choice for Best...
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Tags: 30 for 30, A Cat in Paris, Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love, Al Pacino, Alain Resnais' You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet, Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity, American Splendor, Amreeka, Angelina Jolie Leg, Anthony Bourdain's Bone in the Throat, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Ben Zeitlin, Bill Murray, Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral, Cannes Film Festival, Cherien Dabis, Christopher Plummer, David Bordwell, Duplass Brothers, E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial, Frederic Jardin, Friends with Money, George Lucas, Gimme the Loot, Hayao Mi, Hitchcock, Hong Sang-soo's In Another Country, Hyde Park on Hudson, Jacques Audiard, Jeffrey Wigand, Jessica Chastain, Jimi Hendrix, John Hillcoat's Lawless, Kara Hayward, Katy Perry, Lance Daly, Lisa Cholodenko, Lowell Bergman, Marion Cotillard, Megan Ellison, Michael Fassbender, Michael Haneke's Love, Michael Mann's The Insider, Michel Gondry, Mike Wallace, Moonlight Kingdom, MUBI, Natalie Wood, Nicole Holofcener, Orlando Bloom, Palme D'or, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Peter Hedges, Pixar's Brave, Russell Crow, Rust & Bone, Scarlet Johansson, Shari Springer Berman, Shia LeBeouf, Sleepless Night, Steven Spielberg, Studio Ghibli, Terrence Malick, The Avengers, The Do-Deca-Pentathon, The Good Doctor, The Hulk, the kids are all right, The Odd Life of Timothy Green, The We and the I, Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt, To the Wonder, Tom Hardy, Warren Beatty, Wes Anderson
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Justin has the Official All-Knowing Top Ten List covered in print this week (even though any list without Hugo nestled snugly into the top spot is clearly very wrongheaded and misguided), so I thought I’d take a different look at 2011 and run with the Underrated theme. It’s kind of a useless theme in...
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Tags: 50/50, Adriano Goldman, Alex Shaffer, Aliens, Amy Ryan, Andrew Haigh, Angelica Huston, Anna Kendrick, Attack the Block, Brendan Gleeson, Burt Young, Cage Fighting, Cary Fukunaga, Chris New, Disney, Don Cheadle, Don Hall, Eddie Marsan, Gavin O'Connor, jane eyre, Joe Cornish, Joel Edgerton, John Michael McDonagh, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Le Quattro Volte, Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Michelangelo Frammartino, MMA, Nick Notle, Olivia Colman, Paddy Considine, paul giamatti, Peter Mullan, Rocky, Seth Rogan, Stephen Anderson, The Guard, Thomas McCarthy, Tom Cullen, Tom Hardy, Tyrannosaur, unstoppable, Warrior, Weekend, win win, Winnie the Pooh
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Warner’s announced today that select theaters around the country will get a special screening of the first 6 minutes of Chris Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises on December 16th. And, hey, guess what? Orlando is on their list. The clip will be attached to the 70mm Imax print of Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol at...
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Tags: Bane, batman, Chris Nolan, christian bale, Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, Orlando Screenings, The Dark Knight Rises, Tom Hardy
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