Watch the Trailer for Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator
Earlier today the first trailer surfaced for Sacha Baron Cohen upcoming satirical film The Dictator. Larry Charles, director of Cohen's previous two films Borat and BrĂ¼no as well as Bill Maher's Religulous will be directing again. Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley and John C. Reilly star alongside Cohen, who plays the titular dictator of a middle eastern country, who "[heroically] risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed" according to the official tagline. read more
Found in: Movies, NewsKazakh Director Plans Response Film to Borat
Jagshemash! One of our favorite films of 2006 may be making an unlikely comeback.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsThe 30 Best Fight Scenes in Movie History
I haven’t been in a fight since 10th grade (unless you count an attempted mugging in Kenya where I fended off some unarmed teenagers with a bag of water bottles), and I’d very much like to keep that streak alive. But at the heart of every good story is a struggle, and some times that struggle gets physical. We devoted a whole issue to exploring violence in the arts last year with philosophical nuance, but this list just celebrates a good fight. Sometimes it’s good vs. evil, sometimes it’s more complicated. We celebrate the underdog, the outnumbered and outsized finding... read more
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