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Review: PETE'S DRAGON Doesn't Drag On
Does anyone remember Pete’s Dragon? I’m talking about the original version, an old-school blending of live action and cell animation delivering the titular human kid and cartoon dragon. By all appearances, it was the exact kind of thing that Disney...
Review: AMNESIAC, Michael Polish's Refreshing Take On A Hostage Thriller
Twin filmmakers Michael and Mark Polish occupy a special spot in the American indie landscape. Since their strong debut Twin Falls Idaho, a weird little movie about conjoined twins, the brothers have been chugging along surviving in Hollywood, acting and...
AMNESIAC: Key Art Premiere And Gallery For Thriller Starring Kate Bosworth And Wes Bentley
ScreenAnarchy has the premiere of the key art for Michael Polish's thriller Amnesiac, starring Kate Bosworth and Wes Bentley. XLrator Media is giving the film a theatrical release and it will also be available on VOD and iTunes on August...
Review: WELCOME TO ME, Comedy That Bleeds Into Trauma
Kristen Wiig has been enjoying a lengthy run of success since leaving Saturday Night Live in 2012. Her humor is punctuated by awkward, uncomfortable stares, or lines delivered with more weight -- loneliness, sadness, regret -- than they seem to...
San Cristóbal De Las Casas Reveals Full 2015 Lineup
The San Cristóbal De Las Casas International Film Festival revealed yesterday the full lineup for its very first edition, which kicks off next week (January 16). The definitive highlight is the Ukrainian silent film The Tribe, which for me is...
AMNESIAC: Xlrator Remembers To Acquire North American Rights For Thriller
Xlrator Media has acquired the North American rights for Michael Polish's thriller Amnesiac. The thriller stars Kate Bosworth (Still Alice, Superman Returns) and Wes Bentley (The Hunger Games series, Interstellar). AMNESIAC tells the story of a man (Wes Bentley) who wakes...
Vancouver 2014 Review: WELCOME TO ME Stokes The Fires Of Disability Discourse
Kristen Wiig has been enjoying a lengthy run of success since leaving Saturday Night Live in 2012. Her humor is punctuated by awkward, uncomfortable stares, or lines delivered with more weight -- loneliness, sadness, regret -- than they seem to...
Review: CESAR CHAVEZ Gets It Right
I gotta admit that I was very skeptical going into this movie. There is something very dreadful about patronizing Hollywood biopics that makes me shudder. But with its largely Mexican-American cast and Mexican actor-turned-director Diego Luna (Y Tu Mama Tambien,...
Review: THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE Kicks It Up A Notch, Sets the Stage For A Grand Finale
Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy is a great read if you're into that sort of thing (reading), and it's shrewdly constructed. The first book, memorably adapted last year into a star-making vehicle for Jennifer Lawrence, focuses on the Hunger Games...
Holding Out for a Hero: Katniss and the New (Female) Role Model
It's not easy to be a hero. Just ask Katniss, the main character in the new film The Hunger Games, based on the book of the same name (the first in a trilogy by Suzanne Collins.) Living a life of...
Lionsgate Backpedals After HUNGER GAMES Charity Threat
Lionsgate is already backpedaling after a cease-and-desist letter they sent to a charitable organization became public on Thursday morning and immediately caused a stir. ThinkProgress broke the story and provided context on Imagine Better, the charity-minded group, and their partnership...
THE HUNGER GAMES Review
Hitting the scene as perhaps the world's current and foremost-presold film franchise, "The Hunger Games" has zero aspirations about succeeding as a stand-alone work. We're clearly looking at Film One of a Multi-Part Saga, and it has the non-resolution...
Review: THE HUNGER GAMES Fails to Satiate
I admit up front that I'm not the demographic that The Hunger Games aims to enthrall. While I grew up reading plenty of Tolkien, and plodded my way through the Harry Potter tomes, the Hunger Games series is too contemporary,...
Call Them Off: Never Mind THE HUNGER GAMES, Try These Instead
Let's be honest, okay? Ultimately, no-one who controls the money at Lionsgate approved The Hunger Games being made into a film (or films) because the original novels are great works of literature. They're doing it because they're a safe bet....
Lionsgate UK Cuts THE HUNGER GAMES For Lower Rating
UK audiences will be getting a slightly abbreviated version of Gary Ross' The Hunger Games when it arrives on local screens. Rated PG-13 in the USA the original cut was given a 15 rating by the BBFC, a rating that...
Watch A Sharp Shooting Clip From THE HUNGER GAMES
With some advance tracking numbers suggesting that The Hunger Games could be looking at a $100 million plus opening weekend a new clip has just arrived online showcasing one of the key moments that fans of the book series will...
Was The New HUNGER GAMES Trailer Meant To Look Like The Teen Version Of THE RUNNING MAN?
If so, success!Here's the thing about the Hunger Games movie: Everything about it so far looks cheap and poorly designed. Here's the other thing: It may not matter.While I consider it increasingly unlikely that the promotional campaign for The Hunger...
Watch The Full HUNGER GAMES Trailer Now
Lionsgate are counting on Gary Ross to turn The Hunger Games into a major franchise for the financially troubled studio and today we get our first significant look at whether or not he may succeed in doing that. After an...
