'Charlie Says' Review: The "Manson Girls" Get A Dim Spotlight [Tribeca]
In /Film's Charlie Says review, Matt Smith gives a loud performance as the infamous cult leader, nearly overpowering the women's voices at the center.
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'Charlie Says' Trailer: Matt Smith Is Charles Manson For 'American Psycho' Director Mary Harron
See Matt Smith and his big beard play Charles Manson in the Charlie Says trailer.
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'Alias Grace' Trailer: Netflix's Margaret Atwood Adaptation Asks How A Murderess Can Be So Many Things At Once
See Netflix's Alias Grace trailer adapting Margaret Atwood's historical fiction about a house servant convicted of the murder of her employers.
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'American Psycho' Team Making Manson Family Movie
A Manson Family movie, titled The Family, is in the works from the American Psycho duo, director Mary Harron and screenwriter Guinevere Turner.
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This Week In Trailers: I Am Eleven, We The Economy, Showrunners, Ambition, Spandau Ballet: Soul Boys Of The Western World
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week…
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TV Bits: 'Arrested Development', 'The Bridge', 'Orange Is The New Black', Jerry Seinfeld, Bryan Singer
Gather 'round, kids, and let's watch some things advertising other things to watch. After the jump: Mitch Hurwitz reveals his scrapped plans for a George Clooney cameo in Arrested Development ABC picks up a drama from The L Word's Ilene Chaiken and Bryan Singer BBC One and the Jim Henson Co. are teaming for a…
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'The Moth Diaries' Trailer: A Bit Of Sex, Blood And Death
Since the release of American Psycho in 2000, director Mary Harron has made only one feature, the 2005 release The Notorious Bettie Page. She's hardly been idle, and has put a great amount of television work on her resume in the past decade. But now Harron returns to the big screen as the director of…
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Director Hires: Don Scardino For Steve Carell Comedy 'Burt Wonderstone;' Mary Harron To Direct 'Wicked Lovely'
The comedy Burt Wonderstone, which is planning to star Steve Carell as a "traditional magic man who is dethroned by a hip younger illusionist and must then find a way to rediscover his love for magic,” has been kicking around for a few years. John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (Horrible Bosses) wrote the script,…
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Eerie: Tom Cruise Was Christian Bale's Inspiration For Patrick Bateman
Su-su-Suri. In a new interview with Black Book, director Mary Harron dryly shares the revelation that Christian Bale's inspiration for his pretty-damn-legendary performance in her American Psycho was none other than Tom Cruise. What's more, there is previous online precedent to connect Cruise's go-getter, '80s attitude and famous physical regimen with Patrick Bateman's yuppie, psychopathic…
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Lily Cole And Scott Speedman To Star In Mary Harron's The Moth Diaries
When I last reported on Mary Harron's big screen adaptation of Rachel Klein's vampire novel The Moth Diaries, the writer-director was in London for a retrospective of her work at the Birds Eye Festival and the Diaries info only came up incidentally. Back then in March it wasn't obvious to me who had scripted the…
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Mary Harron Recruiting Cast For The Moth Diaries
Mary Harron is in London to present a retrospective of her work at the Birds Eye View Festival, which celebrates the work of women filmmakers. All three of her prior feature films are screening: I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho, and The Notorious Betty Page; and Harron will this afternoon be giving a masterclass and…
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