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A new trailer for Darren Aronofsky‘s Noah has arrived and it comes equipped with the disclaimer we all heard about and Aronofsky, reportedly, wasn’t happy about not being consulted regarding its inclusion. In other recent news, The New Yorker has published a lengthy piece on the film in which Aronofsky doesn’t hold back when discussing the process of making the film, “The process sucked,” he…

Over the weekend I caught a trailer for InAPPropriate Comedy on television. I’d heard of it when I read Cracked’s least four anticipated movies of 2013, but I didn’t actually read what it was about. In fact, I saw the poster featuring Rob Scneider, Michelle Rodriguez, Adrien Brody and Lindsay Lohan and thought it looked fake. After all, a title like that couldn’t be…

Black Swan was not nominated for a Visual Effects Oscar on Tuesday morning. It didn’t even make the Oscar shortlist. Actually, it wasn’t even listed on the Academy’s shortlist of 15. Black Swan did earn an effects nomination from the Visual Effects Society for Supporting Visual Effects, which may explain why it wasn’t considered for an Oscar if the…

This weekend M. Night Shyamalan returns to theaters with the paranoid thriller The Happening starring Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel and John Leguizamo. It is his first film since 2006’s Lady in the Water, which didn’t connect with critics or audience members. As the director of The Sixth Sense his star rose high and in 2002 it seemed he couldn’t be stopped with…

“Frozen River” is the story of Ray Eddy, an upstate New York trailer mom who is lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling when she meets a Mohawk girl who lives on a reservation that straddles the US-Canadian border. Broke after her husband takes off with the down payment for their new doublewide, Ray…

The Hollywood Reporter seems to know something no one else knew as they report the sequels to Twilight (11/21) are a go as Summit Entertainment has brought on scribe Melissa Rosenberg to pen scripts based on “New Moon” and “Eclipse,” the second and third books in the franchise, respectively. The story of Twilight centers on the relationship between an average teenage…

Yesterday Matt Selman, a writer and exec producer on “The Simpsons”, wrote up a review of Watchmen on Time.com’s Nerdworld blog. I haven’t read the review but based on descriptions from others I understand it to be HIGHLY positive. Jeff Wells at Hollywood-Elsewhere refers to Sellman saying he is “a completely prejudiced and unreliable shill. He’s an invested pre-believer, a suck-up,…

Jacob T. Swinney, who brought us that fascinating side-by-side video essay recently, is back with a pair of videos examining the close-up work of Quentin Tarantino and Jonathan Demme. He opens his examination of Demme’s work in an accompanying written essay at indieWire writing, “The close-up may be one of the most beautiful and conventional shots in cinema. The shot is used…

Rishi Kaneria has put together this excellent 44-second video that simply takes profile shots from Quentin Tarantino‘s movies, sticks ’em in a circle and sets the beat to the tune of “Snare Liftoff” from Whiplash. Kaneria notes that “certain shots have been scaled, rotated or mirrored from their original format to create the effect seen in this video”,…

If you have been building that DVD collection and you can look over at your wall and admire the stacks and stacks of plastic cases don’t get too happy yet. The world of High Definition is preparing to take over, will you become a follower? If so, which government will you form your allegiance with?…