Red Lights
Skepticism is championed until it’s suddenly and inexplicably not in Red Lights, Rodrigo Cortés’ muddled follow-up to Buried. Unlike that prior effort, an efficiently compact and constrained thriller about a man who awakens inside an interred coffin, Cortes’ latest is a sprawling mess both narratively and thematically. It takes as its focus two scientists, Margaret (Sigourney Weaver) and Tom (Cillian Murphy), whose careers are split between lecturing about the non-existence of paranormal activity and going out into the field to debunk charlatans who claim to hear voices and commune with the dead. Casting Weaver as a literal ghost buster is... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsThe 20 Best Acting Performances of Sundance 2012
Sundance isn't just a place where great directors are born and grow, it's also the home of some of the best acting performances of each year in film. Paste film editor Michael Dunaway and contributing writer Jeremy Matthews each pick their 10 favorites. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayWhat Does the Third Trailer Tell Us About Christopher Nolan's Inception?
Click through for all three trailers. You'll still be confused, though... read more
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Since the late '90s, one of the main ways for a young filmmaker to get noticed and, with any luck, make his or her way into feature films... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesCast begins solidifying for Christopher Nolan's Inception
Although details about the plot are still tightly under wraps, Christopher Nolan continues to cast Inception, a film Warner Bros. calls a "contemporary sci-fi/action story, set within the architecture of the mind." Leonardo DiCaprio signed onto the project as the lead a month ago, and now Ellen Page, Cillian Murphy (of Batman Begins' Scarecrow fame) and Marion Cotillard have reportedly joined the cast as well.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsThe Edge of Love
While he plays a major part in the film, The Edge of Love is not a Dylan Thomas biopic... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsTrailer Stash: X-Men Origins: Wolverine, (500) Days of Summer, Public Enemies, more
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Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VOn the Waterfront: Kevin Drew Directs Feist in Short Film
Midway into Feist’s 2007 breakthrough album The Reminder is a bewitching ballad called “The Water.” The track moves slowly, as if water itself, and its emotional resonance inspired Broken Social Scene... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesKevin Drew talks Feist song short-film adaptation
After three years of directing music videos... read more
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