The steampunk subgenre is really nothing new, which is why it's so frustrating that mainstream cinema has had such a difficult time getting it right. Perhaps it's time, then, to see if indie filmmakers can do any better. Described as "an epic steampunk adventure," Cowboys & Engines follows a war-weary hero in 1876 trying to…
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I feel like the team behind The Canyons is just playing with us at this point -- can the movie really be as lifeless as the teasers indicate? Is the listless acting part of the point, and meant to be some comment about the lives of the rich and idle in southern California? Written by…
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Paul Schrader and Bret Easton Ellis' The Canyons was never going for subtlety or elegance, and the marketing seems to be having some fun playing up that fact. The first trailer was cut to mimic grindhouse and exploitation movies of the '70s, whereas the latest one has been done up like black-and-white '50s pulp. No…
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Has Paul Schrader created a film that might have played at a theater his defining character Travis Bickle might have visited in Taxi Driver? Schrader directs The Canyons, written by Bret Eason Ellis and starring Lindsay Lohan and porn star James Deen. The first real trailer for the film is cut in a style meant…
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We're still waiting to find out what comes of Bret Easton Ellis' campaign to adapt E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey, but in the meantime another of his projects is coming together with some attention-grabbing casting. Lindsay Lohan has just joined porn star James Deen in The Canyons, a sexual thriller that Taxi Driver writer Paul Schrader …
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As the Paul Schrader-directed, Bret Easton Ellis-penned "L.A. noir micro budget" film approaches its summer start date, fresh details have been revealed about the story, cast of characters, and release plan. Titled The Canyons, the "psycho-sexual thriller" will center around a circle of young and glamorous but deeply messed-up Angelenos. In other words, exactly what…
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Normally, if a Hollywood screenwriter named a porn star as his top choice to lead a mainstream film, it would come as a bit of a surprise, but when the scribe in question is Bret Easton Ellis, it just makes so much sense. The controversial writer has tweeted that he's currently working on a "L.A.…
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