No year in cinema ever shapes up exactly the way we'd expect. In fact, it'd be boring if one did. Still, when faced with the promise of a whole new year of movies, I can't help try and predict which ones I'll love or hate. I put my best guesses in list form last year,…
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In Paradise, Julianne Hough stars as a young woman who renounces her faith after a plane crash leaves her scarred. She travels to Las Vegas to indulge in all the behaviors that sh has avoided in life, and runs across characters played by Russell Brand, Octavia Spencer and Nick Offerman. The film is written by Diablo Cody…
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How has the movie business changed in the past decade? For one, VOD and streaming video have changed the stigma once attached to films debuting at home before they hit theaters, and movies now routinely can be seen on the small screen before they open on the big one. But the distribution scheme for Diablo…
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Diablo Cody has written some of the sharpest female-led dramedies of the past several years, and now she's taken the next step by helming her own. The Juno scribe makes her feature directing debut this fall with Paradise, a comedy about a sheltered young woman (Julianne Hough) taking a walk on the wild side. Octavia…
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There's some big news on Ridley Scott's two-part prequel to his 1979 film Alien. First up, time to kill off the rumor that the project has been delayed: Fox says that there is no delay. (The interesting reason for the rumor is after the break.) But more important, a report says that the first film…
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