Jennifer Lawrence is really covering all the bases. She's got a resume with acclaimed indies (Winter's Bone, Like Crazy), the reboot (X-Men: First Class) and the giant blockbuster hit (The Hunger Games). But she has also shot a role in a somewhat old-fashioned looking horror thriller called House at the End of the Street. Lawrence…
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The years since Jim Sheridan's great film In America have been filled with a couple of strange choices: the 50 Cent movie Get Rich Or Die Tryin', and the remake of Susanne Bier's Brothers. (The latter being a film I liked in part, but the idea of remaking it still seems like a strange choice.)…
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It has been five years since the original sequel to the US remake of The Ring. 2005 saw the release of The Ring 2, in which Naomi Watts was directed by Hideo Nakata, the man behind Ringu, the Japanese version of the film which helped kickstart the early '00s infatuation with J-horror. Now the easy…
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Old masters never die; they're just endlessly recycled. There haven't been many notable script sales yet this year, but two that went down recently are both being positioned as reflective of the Master of Suspense. Since it's highly unlikely that a film coming out of any Hollywood studio at this point would have the pace…
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