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In 2009 a minimalistic sci-fi film called Moon found widespread critical success. It was, however, only released in 252 theaters and only garnered $5 million at the domestic box-office. This meant that while those that kept up-to-date on the latest movies on movie websites such as this one may now be familiar with writer-director Duncan Jones, the…

During last night’s “Treehouse of Horror” episode of “The Simpsons” the long-running animated show yet again paid tribute to Stanley Kubrick, though this time they went all out. While I didn’t seem to notice any references to Lolita, Fear and Desire or The Killing it’s easy to spot references to Eyes Wide Shut and A Clockwork Orange as the main inspiration along with asides to Full…

FX’s “Fargo” was conceived as something of a ten-episode “movie” more than a standard television series. In this sense it shares something of a kinship with HBO’s recently completed first season of “True Detective“. And, like “True Detective”, which is already developing a second season, the intent with “Fargo” is to feature one true crime…

nother Jane Austen adaptation is upon us as Pride and Prejudice is being brought back to the big screen after 65 years. In tradition of Emma, Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion an Austen novel always brings an audience, and when audiences get a taste of Pride and Prejudice they will be pleasantly surprised as it has not succumb to the Hollywood treatment. While the…

Tonight I watched the new Criterion Blu-ray release of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear and at the top of the film I was reminded of the influence it had on the opening of Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch as cockroaches were tortured by a young boy compared to the scorpion that was thrown onto a pile of ants…

Devin at CHUD points out the company, yU+Co, that created the opening credit sequence for Watchmen has made the sequence available at their official site. The sequence which features the vocals of Bob Dylan’s “Times They Are A-Changin’” has been loved by many of the critics and I am sure fans alike. I wasn’t as enamored with it as most were,…

Well folks, it looks like Christopher Nolan may have found his follow-up to The Dark Knight Rises in the form of the sci-fi film Interstellar, a script written by his brother Jonathan Nolan (The Dark Knight, The Prestige). Steven Spielberg was previously attached to direct and ironically enough the news comes the same day it is being reported Spielberg has postponed his own sci-fi project, Robopocalypse, indefinitely. The Hollywood…

One film sure to make a splash at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, whether it is liked or not, is Jake Scott’s Welcome to the Rileys starring James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart and Melissa Leo and I have your first five looks at the film. Yes, it’s because it stars the Twilight star Kristen Stewart, but it’s the role she is playing…

Jordan Prentice, Joey Gnoffo, Sebastian Saraceno, Lily Collins, Martin Klebba, Mark Provinelli, Ronald Lee Clark and Danny Woodburn from Tarsem Singh’s Snow White Tarsem Singh‘s Snow White feature is the Untitled Snow White, which is something Relativity Media is going to have to remedy soon enough as we inch closer to that March 16, 2012 release date, but for…

Starting on Monday, I’m going to preview 40 potential 2014 Oscar contenders with ten new previews each day and then the following week I’m going to open my 2014 Oscar predictions earlier than I ever have before. Inevitably there will be comments that read “The Oscars just ended, can’t we take a break?” and “How can you predict movies…