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All posts by Jake Pitre
Birthday Wishes: Garry Marshall Directs Himself In ‘Garry Marshall’s Birthday’
In the sequel to Garry Marshall's Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve, Garry Marshall will direct himself today in Garry Marshall's Birthday. It has an all-star cast consisting of Ashton Kutcher, Jon Bon Jovi, Sarah Jessica Parker, Ryan Seacrest, Jeff Probst, M...
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Studio Ghibli’s ‘Princess Kaguya’ Trailer Is Long, But Beautiful
ayao Miyazaki may be retiring (again), but Studio Ghibli is not slowing down. The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Kaguya-hime no Monogatari) is based on a famous Japanese legend called The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, which is a proto-science fiction story about a girl...
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Birthday Wishes: Emma Stone & Ethan Hawke
Today is Emma Stone's birthday, turning 25, as well as Ethan Hawke's, turning 43. They don't really have anything else in common besides this shared birthdate, but I wanted to celebrate both of them - one with a bright and burgeoning career, the other with a s...
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Samuel L. Jackson Joins Stephen King Adaptation ‘Cell’
amuel L. Jackson will be starring in the next film adaptation of a Stephen King book, presumably the fifty-second, this time of his simple 2006 techno-horror, Cell. He will be opposite John Cusack in the lead role, with Tod Williams (Paranormal Activity 2) dir...
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Birthday Wishes: The Late Ruth Gordon
Ruth Gordon's birthday is today. Gordon may have passed away in 1985 at the age of 88, but she lives on in cinema, which is a particularly long-lasting print to leave. Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, Gordon was a versatile talent, winning an Oscar for acting an...
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‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ Trailer Insists Patience Isn’t Its Strongest Suit
The first trailer for Bryan Singer's First Class/originals mashup X-Men: Days of Future Past has debuted online, and it aims not for spectacle but is, according to Singer, "primarily a character piece" due to unfinished visual effects. Luckily, this seems to w...
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Sigourney Weaver Inevitably Joins Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Chappie’
It feels strange and wrong that its taken this long (three movies!) for Sigourney Weaver to appear in a Neill Blomkamp film. Chappie, which follows his 2009 Best Picture-nominee District 9 and this summer's Elysium, is about a robot named Chappie (voiced by Bl...
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Birthday Wishes: Groovy, Sam Raimi Turns 53
Strangely, the first Sam Raimi film I ever saw was the third in his Evil Dead franchise, Army of Darkness. This was shortly before the release of Spider-Man, and my father had enthused about Army of Darkness - in fact, it was and still is one of his favourite ...
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‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ Trailer Suggests It Is Definitely A Wes Anderson Movie
Wes Anderson is one of the more divisive directors working today, with a unique style that you tend to either love or loathe. This writer loves it unabashedly, and as such I was thrilled as I watched the trailer for his latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel. A...
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‘Fifty Shades’ Begins Testing to Replace Charlie Hunnam
Director Sam Taylor-Johnson and female lead Dakota Johnson have begun their search to cast the part of Christian Grey in their adaptation of E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey, following the departure of Charlie Hunnam.
A small group have been testing for the p...
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