“God Bless America,” the latest film from stand-up comedian Bobcat Goldthwait, has a story that could have been told from a compelling angle. Joel Murray stars as Frank, a middle-aged man with nothing to lose, who goes on a murderous rampage, offing “scum of the earth” targets like Bill O’Reilly, a spoiled girl featured on […]
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To promote the upcoming release of their new movie Brave, Pixar has partnered with AMC Theatres to bring back four of their most beloved films–Toy Story 3, Up, Ratatouille, and WALL-E–to multiplex screens. It will all go down on Memorial Day weekend, when each film will show at participating AMC locations for only $6 per
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Hello and welcome back to Box Office Beat, Critic Speak’s weekly box office predictions column. After missing the mark considerably for two weekends in a row–I lowballed the record-breaking run of The Avengers and overestimated Tim Burton’s anemic Dark Shadows–I am ready to redeem myself with better predictions this time around. Thankfully, I have three
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It seems that Ridley Scott recently realized that new film concepts haven’t really been working out for him. Sure, Black Hawk Down and American Gangster were terrific motion pictures, but think of all the screw-ups surrounding them on Scott’s resume (Kingdom of Heaven, A Good Year, Body of Lies, Robin Hood). Apparently determined to buck the negative career
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In 2011, he wrote an Oscar-winning portrait of Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Now, it’s Steve Jobs’ turn to get the Aaron Sorkin treatment. Sony announced today that Sorkin will adapt Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of Jobs, which was published shortly after the Apple CEO’s death last year. The project is being produced by Mark
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After years of drama, viewers will finally get to watch Kenneth Lonergan’s much-discussed and little-seen Margaret, just the way the filmmaker intended. Lonergan notoriously sparred with studio Fox Searchlight over creative differences, causing the film’s release to be dealyed for five years. Searchlight ended up forcing Lonergan to release a 2-1/2 hour cut, abbreviated from
Let’s be honest: legendary French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard has fallen off his rocker in recent years. While his 2004 effort Notre musique was a notable bright spot on his New Millenium resume, 2001’s In Praise of Love was tedium personified and last year’s Film socialisme… well, I don’t need to go on about that one. If
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I am of the opinion that Michel Gondry’s film adaptation of The Green Hornet last year was colossally underrated; too few understood that it was a parody, not a straightforward superhero film. But nonetheless, it’s good to see the French director return to his roots–low-budget, culture-centric filmmaking–with The We and the I, the trailer for which is embedded
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Now that The Avengers 2 has been officially green-lit by Disney and Marvel, speculation about the sequel has been rampant on the Internet. But bloggers and fanboys aren’t the only ones talking about the soon-to-be-made film — Avengers director Joss Whedon, who will presumably return for #2, had some thoughts of his own, which he shared at a
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It seems like all big blockbusters come with a viral video campaign these days, and Marc Webb’s “The Amazing Spider-Man” is no exception. Take a look at these glimpses of the Lizard, played by Rhys Ifans.
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