It's weird to see a trailer for a film that feels like it has to throw out a recap definition of the Weather Underground, that group of radical leftists who in the early '70s embraced violent tactics (riots, bomb attacks on banks and government buildings) in order to protest government actions and argue for revolution.…
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Robert Redford's directorial effort The Company You Keep already boasts a top-notch cast, with Julie Christie, Susan Sarandon, Nick Nolte, Brit Marling, Shia LaBeouf, Stanley Tucci, Richard Jenkins, Stephen Root, and Redford himself all signed on. But apparently,there's still room on the roster for more impressive talent. Anna Kendrick, Terrence Howard, Brendan Gleeson, and Sam Elliott have…
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Stanley Tucci and Chris Cooper have become the latest additions to Robert Redford's The Company You Keep, a thriller based on the novel by Neil Gordon. The film boasts quite a strong cast already -- Julie Christie, Susan Sarandon, Nick Nolte, Brit Marling, Shia LaBeouf, and Redford himself are all set to star as well.…
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Catherine Hardwicke may not have really been given the chance to play with werewolves in the Twilight series, but she's done the next best thing: she's directed Red Riding Hood, in which Amanda Seyfried and Gary Oldman are inhabitants of a medieval village that is beset by a werewolf. Sadly, if predictably, the film looks…
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This isn't a gag: Pierce Brosnan and his son Sean Brosnan are teaming up to co-star in a film called Bonded, which will see them in an "Oliver Twist-esque" thriller based on a story that took place in California in the early '90s. Mo Ramchandani directs and wrote the script about "a Mexican teenager called…
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Fox Searchlight wants to go back to India. But this won't quite be a return to a story like Slumdog Millionaire -- i.e. the film that made Fox Searchlight a ton of money and generated a few Oscars to decorate the mantle. This time the company is looking at a film that skews a bit…
Read MoreFrom the producers of Paris, je t'aime, comes New York, I Love You, another anthology of 12-short films, this time focusing on the stories of love in New York's five boroughs. Directed by Allen Hughes, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Brett Ratner, Fatih Akin, Scarlett Johansson, Ivan Attal, Natalie Portman, Shunji Iwai, Jiang Wen,…
Read MoreVanity Fair decided to recreate some of the classic scenes from the films of Alfred Hitchcock using modern day actors and actresses. Imagine Charlize Theron in Dial M For Murder, Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert Downey Jr. in To Catch a Thief, Seth Rogen in North by Northwest, Scarlett Johansson and Javier Bardem in Rear Window,…
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Most major city regions have a society or association of film critics, who each year join together to vote on the best films and performances of the year. This weekend the winners have been announced for the National Board of Review, Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), the New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO), The…
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One of the talked about films at Toronto and Sundance this year was the directorial debut of actress Sarah Polley. I was unable to catch the film at the fest, but Lionsgate has just released the movie trailer for the film online. Watch it after the jump. [wmv width="320" height="260"]http://mcwindows.arcostream.com/media/arco/lionsgate/streams/windowsmedia/away_from_her/away_from_her_trailer1a_300.wmv[/wmv] The official synopsis: Married for…
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