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Review: ‘Chronicle’ Has Fun As ‘Unbreakable: The High School Years’ But...
Found footage films are often called (by me at least) the new 3D for a few reasons. They’re clearly enjoying a surge similar to the one enjoyed by 3D films for the past couple years. They’re cropping...
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The Reject Report in Black
That’s right. We’ve officially gone from grey to black. This means the evil side of the Reject Report is about to rear its ugly head and its taking names. First up, Daniel Radcliffe. He’ll have some...
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Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card: February 3, 2012
This week, Fat Guy Kevin Carr heads out to the drab English countryside to settle a woman’s estate only to find the place haunted. Fortunately, Kevin had already crawled down a mysterious hole and...
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Box Office: ‘Chronicle’ Writes Its Own Success Story
It was a close race, one that could get switched around when the actual numbers hit on Monday, but, for now, the combination of teenage superheroes and the found footage technique has given Chronicle...
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Box Office Prediction: ‘Act of Valor’ Will Take the Box Office By Force
Four new movies are hitting theaters this weekend, all of them fixed with their own pros and cons. In one corner, we have Amanda Seyfried, Jennifer Aniston, and Tyler Perry. In the other corner, we...
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This Week In DVD: John Malkovich and Albert Nobbs Join Forces Against a Pack...
Welcome back to This Week In DVD! After a couple of sparse weeks we’re rewarded with a bevy of worthwhile DVD releases suitable for your viewing pleasure including a Criterion edition of Being John...
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Movie News After Dark: More ‘Chronicle’ Found Footage, Oodles of Marvel...
What is Movie News After Dark? This week, it is like the idiotic parents’ suburban Pasadena home in Project X. The responsible party is taking some time off, so he has handed the keys to some of us on...
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Could Back Room Dealings Give ‘Daredevil’ a New Director and Marvel the...
Ever since Marvel Comics created its own movie studio and started making its own movies, much ado has been made about the other studios holding rights to some of their characters. How long does Sony...
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The Cynic’s Oscars: Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard for Most Original Screenplay
“In a perfect world, ‘The Cabin in the Woods’ would be a lock for a Best Original Screenplay nomination.” – Joey Magidson, The Awards Circuit It must be frustrating to write for an awards blog (aka an...
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Max Landis Lays His Own Odds on That “Really Dark” Sequel to ‘Chronicle’
After the massive success of Josh Trank‘s Chronicle (a success so profound that the director has now been entrusted with the new Fantastic Four, a Venom film, and possibly The Red Star and Shadow of...
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How Realistic Is Found Footage?
Magnet Releasing While some horror fads like Asian remakes and torture porn burned out their popularity relatively quickly, one fad continues to dominate the genre: found footage. Part of the reason...
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‘Chronicle’ Director Josh Trank Hired to Helm Standalone ‘Star Wars’ Movie
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation The obvious initial reaction to hearing that Josh Trank will direct a standalone Star Wars movie: could it be shot as a found footage film? That’s because we so...
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