The A Town Called Panic Double Fun trailer teases the film's limited release later this week as part of the upcoming Art House Theater Day.
Read MoreThis Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. MOTHER At a certain point, after watching so many movies for so long, you sometimes forget that films can still surprise you.…
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In this week's /Filmcast, David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley express reservations about Paul Greengrass's upcoming 3-D film, reflect on recent incarnations of The Three Musketeers, and respond to M. Night Shymalan's recent interviews about race in The Last Airbender. Special guest Keith Phipps, editor of the AV Club, joins us for this episode.…
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Here's to a school of dagger-propelled, orange barracuda siccing any listmeister who jumped the gun and failed to consider A Town Called Panic for his or her top ten films of 2009. Undeniably the most entertaining and energetic movie of that now-caput year, I found myself funstruck from film's start to its fireworks-laden finish; ATCP is also 2009's…
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As I watched Fantastic Mr. Fox and gradually sensed the darkness of the theater lose out to the autumn-colored, classy, stop motion shenanigans on screen, I began to accept that every silhouette in the audience---fat and small, rich and me---was dressed in ship-shape, semi-formal attire. I pictured moms silently imagining themselves speaking in snooty English…
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A Town Called Panic was one of the more well-received films at Fantastic Fest last month, where it also picked an Audience Award. The unorthodox, stop-motion style of this Belgian animated film needs to be seen to be fully understood, as it taps a mesmerizing, madcap absurdity from the disposability of cheap, plastic toys (think…
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