• 'Upstream Color' Review: A Heady, Intuitive Triumph

    What a beautiful thing, Upstream Color. Shane Carruth's second film is a melange of surprises and delights. For an audience familiar with Primer, Carruth's time-layering ouroboros of a debut, one element may be more surprising than all others: simplicity. Though the telling of this new film is by no means conventional, the core is an elegant…

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  • 'You're Next' Trailer: You're Going To Reap Just What You Sow

    Almost two years ago, Toronto Film Festival and Fantastic Fest audiences made a lot of noise about the bloody home-invasion thriller You're Next. Now everyone gets to see what those few people were talking about. Director Adam Wingard (A Horrible Way to Die, V/H/S) and screenwriter Simon Barrett (A Horrible Way to Die) have come…

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  • 'You're Next' Teaser Posters: Menacing Animal Faces Promise Dire Terror

    In 2011, one of the hits of TIFF and Fantastic Fest was Adam Wingard's home invasion thriller You're Next. The film drew raves at just a couple of festival screenings and was snapped up by LionsGate. But rather than releasing the film quickly, the studio held on to it for a while. After appearing once…

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  • TV Bits: 'Dexter', 'House Of Cards', 'The Killing', 'Happy Endings', 'Up All Night', Jason Blum, Ridley Scott, Neal Stephenson, JK Simmons, Rupert Grint, And More

    It's pilot casting season! And as such, Rupert Grint, JK Simmons, Dylan McDermott, Billy Campbell, Jennifer Beals, and tons more have found new homes on the small screen. Also after the jump: Peter Sarsgaard has joined AMC's The Killing Dexter Season 8 adds a Walking Dead alum Ridley Scott is bringing The Terror to AMC…

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  • 'Upstream Color' Video Reaction [Sundance 2013]

    Today at Sundance saw the premiere of Upstream Color, the second film from Primer director Shane Carruth. Trailers for the movie position the film as an enigma, and while the film is hardly mainstream, I would argue that the feature isn't nearly as impenetrable as those first looks suggested. That said, this film is quite…

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  • See Three Images From 'Primer' Director's New Film 'Upstream Color'

    That image above, featuring Amy Seimetz and Shane Carruth locked in a bathtub embrace, is the first shot from Carruth's new film Upstream Color. Aside from helping Rian Johnson out on Looper when it shot last year, this is the first new work we've seen from Carruth since his 2004 debut Primer. That film became an…

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