According to a new post from Steve Pond over at The Wrap, instead of simply voting for their favorite film for best picture next year, Academy voters will rank all 10 nominees in order of preference. If a single film receives more than 50% of the #1 votes, it will be the winner. If there [...]
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I can’t tell a lie. I’ve hated every scrap of marketing for Ricky Gervais’ upcoming comedy The Invention of Lying. I hated the laugh-free trailer and I hate this lethargic new poster (click it to see the whole thing). There’s nothing about it that says “this is a movie you need to see.” At all. [...]
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In advance of it’s North American premiere at the Toronton International Film Festival, Screen Daily is reporting that Bong Joon-Ho’s Mother (which we just trailered a couple of days ago and which is much anticipated here around the LiC head offices ) has been picked up for US distribution by Magnolia Pictures with a plan [...]
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News of sequels to Rambo and Bad Boys plus Disney buying Marvel fill me with ennui.
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The movies have taken a break from releasing anything I was interested in so I took a break from movies this weekend. It’s been awhile since I haven’t watched so much as a DVD between Friday and Sunday, but there it is. I may still pop in a DVD this evening – Blu-ray copies of [...]
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Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou’s “Take Out” tells the story of an illegal Chinese immigrant desperate to repay the cost of smuggling him into the country by working as a deliveryman for a tiny Chinese restaurant in Manhattan.
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Sorry to keep clobbering you with trailers, but things are kind of slow.
Slow or not, I’ve been looking forward to getting a feel for the latest film from Bong Joon-ho (The Host) for a while now and it’s good to finally see a trailer with English subtitles.
I have to say, I like what I’m seeing.
When [...]
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The trailer for Grant Heslov’s The Men Who Stare at Goats starring George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Ewan McGregor and Kevin Spacey.
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Alex Billington over at FirstShowing has snagged the new trailer from the official Agora website for your embedding pleasure. I’m using the YouTube version instead because I have better luck rescaling the size of their videos, but I wanted to give credit where credit was due.
You’ll remember that Alejandro Amenabar’s film stars Rachel Weisz as [...]
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In case you forgot it was a Michael Moore movie, here’s the new poster for Capitalism: A Love Story to remind you.
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