The trailers for Storage 24 get better each time. The one released earlier this month was a vast improvement over the generic-looking one we got this summer, and now a red-band version has come along to further up the ante through the power of blood and gore. The Brit horror flick centers around four attractive…
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Need a break from the year-end onslaught of prestigious Oscar dramas? Magnet Releasing may have just the genre palate cleanser for you. Directed by Johannes Roberts, Storage 24 follows four Londoners (Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Colin O'Donoghue, Laura Haddock, and Doctor Who's Noel Clarke) who get trapped in a storage facility when a military plane crash shuts down…
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As usual, this summer season looks to be stuffed with massively hyped, massively budgeted blockbusters, from May's The Avengers to August's The Expendables 2. Whenever you tire of glossy, expensive explosions in IMAX 3D, however -- and at some point you will -- there are plenty of other smaller movies on the calendar that could be worth…
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The Rite is based on Matt Baglio‘s nonfiction book The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist, but the film, directed by Mikael Hafstrom and starring Anthony Hopkins, Colin O'Donoghue, Alice Braga, Ciaran Hinds, and Toby Jones, looks like it has taken a few liberties with the text. I hope not too many, because the…
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Since Anthony Hopkins was first cast in Mikael Hafstroem's film The Rite earlier this year, I've wondered what kind of film it might end up being. The script is based on Matt Baglio's book The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist, which seeks to delve into the real-world practice of exorcism. I was afraid…
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I'm pretty curious about the Anthony Hopkins film The Rite, which is based upon the book The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist, by Matt Baglio. The book is about the real-world practice of exorcism, and the Michael Petroni script is said to be faithful to it. Hopkins will play "a priest who is…
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