I recently saw the trailer for Bright Star (see trailer below), which is about the poet John Keats and his love and poetic inspiration Fanny Brawne. It looks pretty good, especially the fact that it's based on a true story. Being a fan of period pieces — with Ang Lee's Sense & Sensibility being my …
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F. Gary Gray just said via Twitter that he's going to the very first screening of his new thriller tonight. Regina Hall, Bruce Mc Gill, & Gerard Butler will be there. "Tonight's the very first screening of "Law Abiding Citizen". It's finally finished & I feel really really good," he tweeted. The film is also …
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Hate advertising? Make better ads. – that's director Doug Pray's statement on its official site. As an interface designer who once yearned to be in advertising, this is absolutely fascinating. Lee Clow, George Lois, Hal Riney, these are advertising rock-stars whose career everybody in my mass comm class drool over. It's been said that Lois …
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Nine seems to be the lucky number in Hollywood this year. There's that recent sci-fi indie-blockbuster set in South Africa, the animated feature film voiced by Elijah Wood and Jennifer Connelly set in post-apocalyptic world, and just in time for Thanksgiving, there's NINE the musical! The description on Apple trailers' page says: NINE is a …
Goodness, I'm getting buzz-overload here with all these sci-fi stuff... but hey I'm not complaining =) First there's District 9, then Avatar, and now, all the mystery surrounding Christopher Nolan's Inception just got a potent boost thanks to the awesome teaser trailer that's just released about an hour ago. The bootleg got leaked over the …
If you've seen Office Space, then you know Mike Judge is great at comedies set in the workplace. The trailer had me in stitches even after repeated viewings! Extract stars Jason Bateman (Juno, Arrested Development) who plays Joel, the owner of a bottled beverage factory. He is one step away from selling his flavor extract …
Wooo hooo! Finally a GB film to get excited about. I just finished watching it, twice, and y'know what, I like what I saw. Ok, so the fact that ze Butler is in almost every scene is a big factor, but this trailer went from meh to yowza about halfway through and kept getting even more …
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