Ewan McGregor Latest Actor to Join Jane Got A Gun

Ewan McGregor Latest Actor to Join <i>Jane Got A Gun</i>

McGregor is the latest to join the tumultuous production.   read more

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Jack the Giant Slayer

<i>Jack the Giant Slayer</i>

It’s easy to imagine the film as a piece of Ikea furniture, with instructions reading “Insert herö-A and heröine-B into plöt pöint C.”  read more

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HBO Passes on Adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections

HBO Passes on Adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's <i>The Corrections</i>

“The Corrections”, Jonathan Frazen’s National Book Award winner, which was being developed for HBO, will not be going any further, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  read more

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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

<i>Salmon Fishing in the Yemen</i>

Imagine you’re watching a romance develop on screen between two sublimely understated actors. They avoid the contrivances of the clichéd way these things seem to go, and you begin to really root for them, despite the complication of their lives apart from one another. They seem earnest, and neither one of them does something to screw it up. Just as you’re getting really invested, you’re transported into the inner lair of a terrorist group plotting the assassination of a Middle Eastern Sheikh. You begin to worry about this idealistic man and the plans he has for the country and culture...  read more

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Watch a New Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Trailer

Watch a New <i>Salmon Fishing in the Yemen</i> Trailer

A new trailer for Salmon Fishing in the Yemen has been released. The romantic-comedy premiered at 2011’s Toronto International Film Festival, but will not receive a wide release until this March.  read more

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Perfect Sense

<i>Perfect Sense</i>

Perfect Sense is a film certainly worthy of appreciation, but a struggle to love. It promises an exciting premise—people around the world are starting to lose their senses, beginning with the sense of smell, and no one knows why. Caught in the middle of the mysterious pandemic are a pair of lovers, a chef and a researcher, who discover they need one another to make it through the chaos....  read more

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Haywire

<i>Haywire</i>

In his follow-up to Contagion, auteur Steven Soderbergh makes over the espionage thriller and puts an ass-kicking woman in the lead. That Haywire features a female action star isn’t in itself particularly innovative (see: Salt, Wanted). That the female action star isn’t Angelina Jolie, and that Soderbergh built the film around a mixed martial arts fighter in her first theatrically released film—well, that’s something one doesn’t see every day. In addition to her EliteXC and Strikeforce bouts, Gina Carano has appeared in TV’s American Gladiators and direct-to-DVD actioner Blood and Bone, but here she headlines a cast that includes A-listers...  read more

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Catching Up With Beginners Director Mike Mills

Catching Up With <i>Beginners</i> Director Mike Mills

The Beginners director spoke to Paste about Ewan McGregor’s insistent representation of himself, about his concerns in honestly depicting the gay community of his father, and about the power of a little dog who almost steals the film.  read more

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Beginners review

<i>Beginners</i> review

Hal came out of the closet at age 75 when his wife of 44 years was taken by cancer. Oliver, Hal’s son, accepted the announcement meekly but it wasn’t until Hal came down with terminal cancer himself that Oliver and Hal began to speak honestly. The conversation didn’t end when Hal was also taken.   read more

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Five More Actors Martin Scorsese Should Consider for His Frank Sinatra Biopic

Five More Actors Martin Scorsese Should Consider for His Frank Sinatra Biopic

It’s hard to keep up with the seemingly endless films Martin Scorsese has brewing (a George Harrison documentary, a Mafia flick dubbed The Irishman and a 3D kids movie, The Invention of Hugo Cabret), but, for more than a year now, our favorite living director has also been piecing together a biopic on romanticized singer/actor Frank Sinatra....  read more

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