They say the third time is a charm, though in the case of Dune I have my doubts. Regardless of what I think, Variety confirms that Peter Berg (The Kingdom) is attached to direct another version of Frank Herbert’s award winning epic sci-fi novel about the fight over a desert planet.
David Lynch took a crack in [...]

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Tang Wei and Tony Leung in Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution
Speaking to reporters after winning Best Actor at the Asian Film Awards Monday night, Tony Leung came out in support of his blacklisted co-star Tang Wei. Wei recently had her advertisements taken off the air by China’s State Administration of Radio Film and Television following her [...]

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Named the Best Undistributed Film of 2007 in the IndieWIRE Critics’ Poll last year, earning a Best Actress award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival for Jeon Do-Yeon, and named by me as one of the best films I saw at AFI, South Korea’s official submission for the best foreign language Oscar, Secret Sunshine (Milyang), [...]

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone.
You know, it’s a pretty sad state of affairs when you watch three different movies over the course of a Saturday and the best of the lot is a tepid, cluttered up bastardization of a beloved Dr. Seuss story aimed at an audience 3 decades younger than you are. Such is [...]

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Regal Entertainment Group, the largest theater chain in the United States has decided to begin allowing so-called restricted trailers to run before films in its multiplexes and it’s expected that the other large chains will follow.
The so called “red-band” trailers contain content inappropriate for minors and only appear before R-rated and NC-17-rated films. Frequency of [...]

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