Dustin Jansick
660 articles written by Dustin Jansick
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The Master on Blu-ray & DVD February 26th
One of the most intriguing films of 2012 was without a doubt Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master. The film contains some of the best acting performances of the year, which led Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, and Amy Adams...
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I Am Not a Hipster
Director Destin Cretton won the Short Filmmaking Award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival for his short film, Short Term 12. He returns to Sundance in 2012, this time it is for his full-length film I Am Not a...
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2013 Golden Globe Award Winners
The Golden Globes Award show got off to a bit of a shaky start when the Teleprompters malfunctioned during Paul Rudd and Salma Hayek’s award presentation, leaving them in an awkward speechless moment. Despite a couple minor out of...
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Win: $25 American Express Gift Card for a Night at the Movies
Any film that has Bill Murray in some capacity has me excited, let alone when it is a lead role. In his new film Hyde Park on Hudson, he plays the historical President FDR. To celebrate the film in...
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The Sessions
Ben Lewin’s The Sessions collected attention at various film festivals throughout the year, under the film’s original name of The Surrogate. Because the film is based on a true story about a man who struggles in life because of...
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2013 Oscar Nominations
The nominations for the 2013 Oscars were announced this morning with Lincoln brining in the most nominations with a whopping 12, including most of the main categories. Almost every year at the Academy Awards the showdown for Best Picture...
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List of Movies Released in 2012
In 2012 there were a total of 873 films that were commercially released in New York City. That is an increase of 87 films above last year. Here is the total list of films sorted alphabetically. Additionally, the director’s...
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List of Movies Released in 2011
There were a total of 786 films released commercially in New York City in 2011. That is an increase of 132 films above last year. Below is the full list of films sorted in alphabetical order. For your convenience,...
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Gayby
A lot of sitcoms start with the same premise as Jonathan Lisecki’s Gayby, biological alarm clocks go off and suddenly everyone is infected with baby fever. This lightweight indie comedy takes that exact plot a couple steps further while...
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Win a Good Will Hunting Blu-ray and Focus Features Score Soundtrack
On behalf of Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land just hitting theaters, we are celebrating the 15th Anniversary of his Oscar winning film, Good Will Hunting. We will be giving two winners a copy of Good Will Hunting on Blu-ray...
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Watch: I’m So Excited Teaser Trailer
Oh, Pedro Almodovar. It was an embarrassment that the first film I saw from the legendary director was his 2011 puzzling thriller The Skin I Live In. That film ended up being my favorite films of 2011 and consequently...
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Way Too Indie’s Best Films of 2012
As the Way Too Indie Staff compiled their favorite films that had a U.S. theatrical release in 2012, there was some debate as to whether or not 2012 was an overall good year for films. I landed in the...
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Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas is a big film by all definitions; it contains an inordinate amount of characters spread out across hundreds of years, making the shear scope of the production epic. Not to mention the estimated budget of 100 million...
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Watch: Two teaser trailers for Upstream Color
Science fiction
geeksfans and film critics cheered when the announcement was made that Shane Carruth’s sophomore film, Upstream Color, will be premiering at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in January. Not much is known yet about his... -
Girl Model
Nowadays Toddlers & Tiaras and the like are mega successful TV shows that glamorize rather than exploit the modeling world, so it seems like great timing for a documentary to show the real side of modeling. Girl Model reveals...