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Criterion September 2014 Releases Announced
News | Aaron Pinkston | June 17, 2014The Criterion Collection announced their September 2014 releases today, highlighted by David Lynch’s masterpiece Eraserhead and films from auteurs Roman Polanski and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Eraserhead David Lynch – Available September 16 If there was one film not previously released by the...
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Jillian Bell & Anders Holm From ‘Workaholics’ To Star In P.T. Anderson’s ‘Inherent Vice’
News | Aaron Pinkston | June 17, 2014From pop-up cameos and supporting roles in recent comedy hits Neighbors and 22 Jump Street, the cast of Comedy Central sleeper hit Workaholics have been crossing over to the big screen with great success. According to First Showing, two of the show’s stars, Jillian...
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LAFF 2014: Trouble Dolls
Film Festival | Ananda Dillon | June 17, 2014A cross between the millennial musings of Lena Dunham and the dimwittedness of Romy and Michele, Trouble Dolls is a female buddy comedy for today’s self-aware art hipsters, or more specifically those looking to poke fun at them. Written and...
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LAFF 2014: Eat With Me
Film Festival | Ananda Dillon | June 16, 2014Sunday at the Los Angeles Film Festival was a gorgeous day, so it’s fortunate that this year’s LA Muse category at the festival has afforded viewers a way to enjoy the city despite being inside a theater all day....
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LAFF 2014: The Last Time You Had Fun
Film Festival | Ananda Dillon | June 16, 2014A night-on-the-town movie for the pre-middle age crowd, The Last Time You Had Fun is out to show that divorce, kids, and growing disillusionment doesn’t mean life can’t still be lively. Mo Perkins’ comedy follows four adults, each in the...
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LAFF 2014: Echo Park
Film Festival | Ananda Dillon | June 16, 2014It used to be that indie cinema was the place to go to get fresh perspective on common film themes. Somewhere along the way indie films have formed their own grooves and well-worn paths, and every so often someone...
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LAFF 2014: Lake Los Angeles
Film Festival | Ananda Dillon | June 15, 2014The gap between the allure of American refuge and the actual plight of those who immigrate here empty-handed is movingly portrayed in Mike Ott’s Lake Los Angeles. Entirely in Spanish, the film is slow and intentional, with breakout performances by its two leads. The film...
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LAFF 2014: Frank
Film Festival | Ananda Dillon | June 15, 2014Saturday at the Los Angeles Film Festival has been full of laughers, but the quirkiest among them is likely Lenny Abrahamson’s Frank. The film first premiered at Sundance in January and will get a limited release in August. Following musician...
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LAFF 2014: Comet
Film Festival | Ananda Dillon | June 15, 2014First time director, Sam Esmail, may not have picked especially uncharted territory for his directorial debut Comet, which focuses on the rocky relationship of an oddly paired couple, but his storytelling technique reflects the perspective of an enlightened and...
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First Image: Tom Hardy Plays Dual Roles in ‘Legend’
News | Zachary Shevich | June 14, 2014Shooting for the new 50s & 60s-set period gangster piece Legend, starring Tom Hardy in dual roles. Based on the non-fiction John Pearson book “The Profession Of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins,” Legend stars Hardy...
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LAFF 2014: Inner Demons
Film Festival | Ananda Dillon | June 14, 2014The words “twist on the found footage genre” are among the most cringeworthy you’ll find in a movie review these days. If anyone has found any new way of twisting found footage it’ll probably be laughably implausible, and since the found...
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Trailer: The Interview
News | Zachary Shevich | June 14, 2014In Seth Rogen‘s 2nd film as director, he and writing partner Evan Goldberg are taking the act to one of the least funny places in the world, North Korea. In The Interview, Rogen plays Aaron Rapoport, TV Producer of...
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Josh Brolin Joins George Clooney in Coen Bros Film
News | Zachary Shevich | June 14, 2014As the Coen Brothers continue to put together their follow-up to last year’s Inside Llewyn Davis, the enticing details about Hail, Caesar! have begun to stack up. Now set to join George Clooney in the film’s main cast is...
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Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe to star in Shane Black’s Next Film?
News | Zachary Shevich | June 13, 2014Fresh off his biggest success ever at the box-office in Iron Man 3, director Shane Black is pursuing an Oscar winner & an Oscar nominee to star in his follow-up film. Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling are in talks...