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Review: Blindness
Lets face it, not every film can be a winner, no matter how badly you want it to be good. This particular theory was one that I was reminded of this week as I screened Fernando Meirelles’ latest film...
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Jarmusch’s ‘Limits of Control’ Trailer is Confusing in Cowboy Hats
Since I quit sniffing baboon blood to get high, the only thing I have left that’s on par is this new trailer for Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control. It seems fairly par for the course considering...
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Review: Letters to Juliet
The Joe Cocker song “Up Where We Belong” — not to mention thousands of other love ballads, sonnets and poems — says the same essential thing as Letters to Juliet and says it better, in less than 100...
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Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card: May 14, 2010
ROBIN HOOD Studio: Universal Rated: PG-13 for violence including intense sequences of warfare, and some sexual content Starring: Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, William Hurt, Mark Strong and Mark Addy...
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Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna Move Into ‘Casa de Mi Padre’ Con Will Ferrell
There are few things better in this life than realizing something ridiculous is real. It’s like the first time you found out chocolate chip pancakes weren’t some elaborate ruse invented by your parents...
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Johnny Depp Drops Out of Pancho Villa Biopic, Replacements Rumored
Depp was once believed to be a lock for playing the titular character in Emir Kusturica’s upcoming film The Seven Friends of Pancho Villa and the Woman With Seven Fingers, but delays on the project and...
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Reel Sex: Movie Sex Exposes the Flaws
The last few weeks have been emotionally exhausting and utterly surreal for me, and visiting with some of my favorite movies for advice has been a big help in moving forward. Of course this isn’t the...
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Trailer: Will Ferrell Doesn’t Speak American in ‘Casa de mi Padre’
In a week where a trailer was released where apes take over the planet, I think that this trailer for the upcoming Will Ferrell comedy Casa de mi Padre is still the coolest, weirdest thing I’ve seen....
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Will Ferrell’s Ridiculous ‘Casa de mi Padre’ Will Finally be Released March 2012
Last April, an amazing trailer hit the web that was subsequently taken down. While it lasted, it showed Will Ferrell playing a character named Armando Alvarez in a ridiculous Spanish-language film that...
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Michael Peña To Fight For Labor Rights as Cesar Chavez
Not to be hyperbolic, but this is the kind of role that earns Oscar nominations. Iconic public figure? Check. Oscar nominated screenwriter? Check. An actor capable of pulling off a rounded, difficult...
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Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card: March 16, 2012
This week, Fat Guy Kevin Carr dresses up in skinny jeans and bling-bling (‘cause that’s what the kids nowadays are wearing, right, dawg?) so he can sneak into his old high school and pose as a...
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Review: ‘Casa De Mi Padre’ Proves Will Ferrell’s Second Language is Hilarious
To Say Will Ferrell is an incredibly polarizing figure in comedy is to just point out something all our mothers already knew. Is he a comedy genius, or a man-sized enfant terrible? Is he one step...
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Review: Shabby Tearjerker ‘A Little Bit of Heaven’ Is (Slightly) Better Than...
Kate Hudson seems doomed to never get a chance to repeat her Almost Famous glory, stuck in a rut of endless romantic comedies, from the passable (Alex & Emma, How to Lose a Guy in 1o Days) to the...
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‘The Loneliest Planet’ Trailer Is Packed With Paranoia and Pretty Pictures
The advertising for The Loneliest Planet seems to be selling it on the fact that, while you’re watching it, you’ll have no idea what’s going to happen next. If this is the strategy, then so far...
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Casting Couch: George Clooney’s Next Nabs Bill Murray and Daniel Craig, Ti...
What is Casting Couch? Proof that not everyone’s tracking Hurricane Sandy’s path on Twitter. Some are still out there casting movies. The big casting news over the weekend was all of the big names...
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Casting Couch: Colin Firth and Michael Fassbender Team Up, Saoirse Ronan Will...
What is Casting Couch? It’s where you go to make sure Elijah Wood is adding another new job to his calendar every day. Turns out, today he kept the streak alive, read on… Colin Firth and Michael...
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Review: ‘The Loneliest Planet’ Takes the Road Less Traveled and Gets Lost in...
Is it a bad idea to test your love? It could be argued that a life spent together is one long test, and obviously arranged tests like hiring someone to try and seduce your partner is a recipe for...
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‘No’ Trailer Uses an Ad Campaign to Take Down a Dictator
Augusto Pinochet was not a good guy. He rose to power in Chile through a military coup, and he’d go on to amass nearly 300 criminal charges throughout his brutally corrupt reign. Through increasing...
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Review: ‘No’ Is a Cleverly Filmed Celebration of Freedom in Advertising
Editor’s Note: This review originally ran during the 2012 NYFF, but we’re re-running it now as the film opens in limited theatrical release. The revolution will not only be televised, it will have...
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Casting Couch: Diane Keaton and Morgan Freeman to Finally Eliminate Their One...
What is Casting Couch? It’s a rundown of recent news about actors getting new jobs. Today it’s mostly focused on handsome young fellows like Gael Garcia Bernal, Hayden Christensen, and Dylan O’Brien....
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