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All posts by Colin Biggs
‘Labor Day’ Trailer Suggests There Is More to the Story
The trailer for director Jason Reitman‘s upcoming Labor Day debuted online today in lieu of Paramount's Christmas Day release. The Christmas day slot is a coveted one and if Juno, Thank You for Smoking and Up in the Air have proved anything it's that any film ...
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Easy Movie Costumes for Halloween
Halloween is just a day away and, for choosy movie buffs, picking which character to be is a difficult decision. Fandango amassed some survey data for what the most popular costumes for this year would likely be and the big winners are unsurprisingly featured ...
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Another Take: ‘The Counselor’ Is Still Worth Watching
Sitting at 35% on Rotten Tomatoes The Counselor has taken a lot of flak from critics for being too talky and overly dark, but the film is certainly not indecipherable, it just asks its audience to go places, places that audiences may not be willing to delve in...
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A.V. Club’s Jesse Hassenger Questions the Importance of Review Aggregators
Headed to the theatre this weekend? Were you intending on seeing The Counselor? Prior to purchasing tickets, I bet you logged on to Rotten Tomatoes before making the final decision. And there it sat a 35% rotten rating like a sore thumb on a new releases list ...
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‘The Immigrant’ Trailer Finally Lets Us See Some Footage
The Weinstein Company will release James Gray's The Immigrant next year, but we have our first peek at the film thanks to Elle. James Gray's latest film debuted at Cannes Film Festival to good word of mouth due to the performances from stars Marion Cotillard, ...
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Blue is the Warmest Color Feud Starts Up Again
Things have not been good with Blue is the Warmest Color since winning the Palme d’Or over the summer. Scandals about the treatment of the two lead actresses have overtaken much of the good word that was spreading around and now, with the U.S. release of the f...
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‘The Conjuring’ Blu-ray Giveaway
PartnersHub and Warner Bros. are teaming up to celebrate the DVD/Blu-ray release of James Wan's The Conjuring, to win the giveaway (1 Blu-ray of the film), read below.
As a fun tag-on, Warner Bros. offers 5 Things to know about the film:
1) The Conjuring is ...
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’12 Years A Slave’ Dissenters Serve As Another Reminder that Oscar Season Is Here
It happens like clockwork every year. A film comes out of a festival sitting on a cloud boosted by the word of critics that are left speechless post screenings. The filmmakers receive standing ovations, Oscar pundits run off to their hotel rooms to write their...
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‘All Is Lost’ Grips Viewers and Refuses to Let Go
Robert Redford's new film, ALL IS LOST, is brilliant.
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Bong Joon-ho Not So Pleased with Cuts to ‘Snowpiercer’
A few months ago The Weinstein Company announced that the U.S. theatrical release of Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer would be significantly shorter than the overseas finished product with 20 minutes cut from the film's 126 minute runtime. In August, Bong seemed unp...
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