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Exclusive Clip: Sick Birds Die Easy
News | Dustin Jansick | January 28, 2014What happens you send a filmmaker, an Oxycotton loving conspiracy theorist, an alcoholic musician and his girlfriend, and a shit ton of acid into the jungles of Africa? You get Sick Birds Die Easy, an experimental documentary that blurs...
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‘The Shining’ Without Delbert Grady is Spooky as Hell
News | Bernard Boo | January 27, 2014Taking a cue from Garfield Minus Garfield, special effects artist Richard Trammell’s digital removal of Tyler Durden from a classic Fight Club scene has been creeping us out since he released the clip last week. Now, Trammell’s followed it up with...
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Trailer: Blue Ruin
News | Amy Priest | January 27, 2014Blue Ruin is a thriller focusing on the life of a curious man who returns home to claim vengeance upon hearing the news of a recent release of a prison inmate. After proving himself to be an amateur assassin,...
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Sundance: Sony Pictures Classics Picks Up ‘Love Is Strange’
News | Bernard Boo | January 24, 2014Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all North American, German, and Scandanavian rights to Ira Sachs’ Love Is Strange starring John Lithgow and Alfred Molina. The film made its world premiere at Sundance to wide praise. Here’s the plot synopsis, via SPC:...
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Trailer: The Grand Budapest Hotel
News | Amy Priest | January 23, 2014Wes Anderson, known for his distinctive visual and narrative style in such films as Moonrise Kingdom, Fantastic Mr Fox and The Darjeeling Limited, will be releasing his latest quirky comedy The Grand Budapest Hotel. The adventures of an infamous...
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Tarantino Sidelines ‘Hateful Eight’ Following Script Leak
News | Bernard Boo | January 22, 2014In some disappointing news, Quentin Tarantino has sidelined his recently announced supposed next project (and 9th feature film), an ensemble western called The Hateful Eight, when the script was leaked. Though he hasn’t ruled out making the film in the...
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2014 Screen Actors Guild Award Winners
Awards | Dustin Jansick | January 18, 2014Tonight marked the 20th anniversary of the Screen Actors Guild Award show, an award ceremony that has become a great precursor to help predict how the acting categories could turn out for the Oscars. The biggest reason for this...
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Magnolia and Paramount Link Up to Distribute ‘Happy Christmas’
News | Bernard Boo | January 16, 2014Today, Magnolia Pictures and Paramount Pictures announced that they will collaborate to bring Joe Swanberg’s Happy Christmas to theaters and home video worldwide. The film, which premieres at Sundance this Sunday, is written and directed by Swanberg and stars Anna...
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2014 Oscar Nominations
Awards | Dustin Jansick | January 16, 2014This morning the official announcement of nominations for the 2014 Oscars came in with Gravity and American Hustle on top with an impressive total of 10 nominations each. Not far behind was 12 Years A Slave which hauled in...
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Starz Digital Picks Up ‘Mistaken For Strangers’ and ‘Trust Me’
News | Bernard Boo | January 15, 2014Starz Digital Media, the digital distribution subsidiary of Starz, has picked up the rights to two Tribeca standouts: Tom Berninger’s Mistaken For Strangers, a docu-comedy based on Americana rock group The National, and Trust Me, a comedy helmed by and starring...
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2014 Spirit Award Predictions
Awards | Dustin Jansick | January 15, 2014If my predictions of the 2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards hold true (nobody hold their breath), 12 Years A Slave would walk away the big winner with a projected total of 5 awards. I believe the rest of the...
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Sam Berns, Subject of ‘Life According to Sam’, Dies at 17
News | Bernard Boo | January 14, 2014Life According to Sam subject Sam Berns, 17, died on Friday in Boston, Massachusetts, reports The New York Times. Sam’s death came as a result of complications of the rare disease progeria, which he had lived with his entire...
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Armond White Goes Too Far, Voted Out of NYFCC
News | Bernard Boo | January 13, 2014After years of prodding, he’s finally woken the sleeping giant…and it’s pissed. Several witnesses have accused Armond White, contrarian film critic and now former member of the New York Film Critics Circle, of vicious heckling directed at 12 Years a...
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Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’ Added to Sundance 2014 Lineup
Film Festival | Bernard Boo | January 13, 2014A special preview screening of Richard Linklater’s ambitious new project, Boyhood, has been added to the Sundance 2014 lineup. The film, also known as the “12 Year Project”, is an unprecedented undertaking: for the past 12 years, Linklater has made...