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Austin Film Festival 2009 Part Two

By Tim Basham on 3:50 PM on November 2, 2009

I don't know if festival programmers do this on purpose but sometimes you come across a documentary and a narrative that fit well together as companion pieces. This year the documentary Warrior Champions compliments the drama The Messenger. Melissa Stockwell in Warrior ChampionsWarrior ChampionsWhether they're embedded in Iraq for the Discovery Channel's acclaimed series  "Off to War" or filming about the drug wars and sky rocketing murder rate in Juarez, Mexico for the New York Times, Craig and Brent Renaud have never shied from the dangerous stories. But with Warrior Champions the filmmakers look at the other side of war by telling the story of America's paraplegic...  read more

Found in: Blogs, Festivus

Watch Some Hilarious Promo Footage of Roland Emmerich's 2012 With the Special Effects Removed

By Michael Saba on 9:52 AM on October 8, 2009

Director Roland Emmerich certainly loves himself some CGI-fueled spectacle. Independence Day, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow; for the last 15 years, almost all of his movies have banked heavily on a cornucopia of special-effects eye candy. And his upcoming disaster-porn movie 2012 looks to carry on that grand tradition of famous U.S. landmarks being destroyed by apocalyptic disasters. ...  read more

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Let's Get (Meta) Physical: Top 5 Top 5 Lists in John Cusack film High Fidelity

By Steve LaBate on 8:25 AM on November 21, 2008

Us music geeks love making Top 5 lists. It helps us deal with and understand this big scary world. Writer Nick Hornby understood this when he wrote the novel High Fidelity. As did John Cusack and director Stephen Frears when they made the movie version. Today, in Paste's List of the Day, we divulge our Desert-Island All-Time Top 5 Most-Memorable Top 5 Lists from the film version of High Fidelity....  read more

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War, Inc.

By Robert Davis on 2:19 PM on June 17, 2008

I wish I understood comedy enough to know why Dr. Strangelove makes...  read more

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John Cusack signs on for Roland Emmerich's 2012

By Meghan Jones on 7:52 AM on May 22, 2008

It seems John Cusack's film focus may be shifting from romantic comedies to the suspenseful and supernatural. What with his most recent films being Martian Child and the Stephen King-adapted 1408, it may come as no big surprise that he just got on board with...  read more

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Which John Cusack character would you most like to see date your mother?

By Paste Staff on 4:14 PM on December 3, 2007

"Grace is Gone," starring John Cusack, hits limited U.S. theaters this Friday. Which Cusack character would you most like to see date your mother? [843 votes total] Rob Gordon ("High Fidelity") (191): 23% Jake ("Must Love Dogs") (100): 12% Craig Schwartz ("Being John Malkovich") (31): 4% Eddie Thomas ("America's Sweethearts") (22): 3% Lloyd Dobbler ("Say Anything") (169): 20% Jonathan Trager ("Serendipity") (108): 13% John Kelso ("Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil") (40): 5% Martin Q. Blank ("Gross Pointe Blank") (114): 14% Bryce ("Sixteen Candles") (31): 4% Other (37): 4% Full Results Comments...  read more

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