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Four Can't-Miss Films at SXSW

Four Can't-Miss Films at SXSW

The second half of the South by Southwest Festival is generally focused on the music side of things. But Paste Film Editor Michael Dunaway points out four films that you really shouldn’t miss. Coincidentally enough, they’re all from first-time feature directors. Your ears need a break anyway, so go see a great film!...  read more

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Please Give Review

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Release Date: April 30 Director/Writer: Nicole Holofcener Cinematographer: Yaron Orbach Starring: Catherine Keener, Rebecca Hall, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Sarah Steele Studio/Run Time: Sony Pictures Classics, 90 mins. Whining and Pining in New York Nicole Holofcener’s fourth film begins with some of the saddest breasts ever committed to film, as a radiology technician (Rebecca Hall) administers a series of mammograms. It’s the film’s cleverest sequence, a comic desexualizing of human flesh. It’s also a feint, as Holofcener is not interested in any of the boob’s symbolic virtues. Her story is about that most tedious of subjects: white, liberal,...  read more

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Gossip Girl Star to Join Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner in Ben Affleck's The Town

<em>Gossip Girl</em> Star to Join Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner in Ben Affleck's <em>The Town</em>

Gossip Girl starlet Blake Lively has been cast opposite Ben Affleck, Jon Hamm, Rebecca Hall (Vicki Cristina Barcelona), Chris Cooper and Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) in The Town, a crime thriller that will also mark Affleck’s second feature as a director. ...  read more

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Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

In his most delightful subversion yet, septuagenarian...  read more

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