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Paolo Sorrentino is heading to Cannes with his newest film Youth (La giovinezza) and it certainly is getting its fair share of marketing along the way thanks in large part to a May 21 release date in Italy as a second trailer has arrived today. The film has yet to be picked up for domestic release, but I expect all that to…

The first two official pictures from James Franco‘s Child of God have arrived and both feature Scott Haze as Lester Ballard, the film’s main character. That said, the film is now set to premiere at the Toronto Film Festival and is based on the Cormac McCarthy novel. Set in mountainous Sevier County, Tennessee in the 1960s, Child of God tells the story of Lester…

We are now less than a week away from the 2014 Oscars and I’ll be posting my final predictions soon enough and asking for you to place your votes on each category as well leading up to the March 2 festivities. But in the meantime, Bovada (via Slashfilm) have posted updated Las Vegas odds on all 23 categories…

The terraforming of the planet seen in the opening sequence of Prometheus gives credence to Darwin’s theory of evolution. As David (Michael Fassbender) says just before contaminating Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green), “Big things have small beginnings,” and, from the sacrificial Engineer, tiny cells will soon result in a thriving ecosystem. Darwinism, however, is not the only theory at…

Cinematographer Will McCrabb tweeted out (via i09) the above photo offering a look at the uncensored exploding head of Paul Freeman‘s Belloq in Raiders of the Lost Ark before the MPAA made Steven Spielberg censor it with flames to cover up the gore. As the video below from Slate.com illustrates, it makes no sense why the MPAA would decide to censor this when the…

I am not sure if I wanted to have Will Smith seen as a bum all throughout Hancock or if I wanted to actually see him in some king of superhero outfit. I guess it doesn’t matter now as Cine21 brings us our first look at Smith in a superhero uniform from the film. I know there are a…

I know, this is the Internet and the immediate reaction to such a question as I pose in the headline is, “Hell no! Censorship sucks! Down with the man!” But this isn’t that kind of a conversation. I’m with you 100%. I hate censorship, but there is something to be said for the creativity censorship…

Barry Levinson is back at Toronto after delivering the dull eco-horror-thriller The Bay back in 2012 (my review here), this time with Al Pacino in The Humbling based on Philip Roth‘s final novel. Today, after the film has already premiered at the Venice Film Festival, the first trailer has arrived ahead of its North American premiere here in Toronto. The film tells the story of a…

It was long speculated and recently confirmed that enough titles would be submitted for consideration in the Best Animated Feature Film category for there to be five nominees this year. This is something that hasn’t happened since 2003 when Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away took home the award and not only are there 16 contenders, which is the magic number…

12 Years a Slave Fox Searchlight Pictures Directed by Steve McQueen Starring Michael Fassbender, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt, Adepero Oduye, Paul Dano, Taran Killam, Benedict Cumberbatch, Garret Dillahunt, Paul Giamatti, Sarah Paulson, Alfre Woodard, Michael Kenneth Williams, Quvenzhané Wallis, Lupita Nyong’o & Ruth Negga NOMINEES Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) American Hustle Columbia Pictures Directed by David O. Russell Starring Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner, Amy Adams, Louis C.K., Alessandro Nivola, Elisabeth Röhm, Michael Peña, Jack Huston & Robert De Niro…