• 'Turbo' Trailer #3: They're Letting Snails In The Indy 500 Now

    DreamWorks Animation has already gotten us to believe that pandas can be kung fu masters, dragons can be man's best friend, and cats can be swashbuckling outlaws. In that light, I guess an snail competing in the Indy 500 isn't that much of a stretch. Turbo stars Ryan Reynolds (or his voice, anyway) as an…

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  • 'Turbo' Trailer #2: Ryan Reynolds Lives Life In The Fast Lane

    What does it take for a snail to become fast enough to compete in the Indy 500? According to this new trailer for DreamWorks Animation's Turbo, a terrible car accident and a nitrous oxide wash ought to do the trick. Ryan Reynolds voices the lead, an ordinary garden snail with not-so-ordinary dreams. While the first…

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  • 'A.C.O.D' Review And Video Blog: Divorce Has Never Been This Funny [Sundance 2013]

    With three days remaining, A.C.O.D. is my favorite film of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Directed by first-timer Stuart Zicherman, it's about "Adult Children of Divorce" and stars Adam Scott as Carter, a man whose parents (Richard Jenkins and Catherine O'Hara) had a brutal breakup on his 9th birthday. Decades later his brother (Clark Duke)…

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  • 'The Company You Keep' Trailer: "We Made Mistakes, But We Were Right"

    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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  • Trailer: Josh Radnor's Sundance Hit 'Liberal Arts' Starring Elizabeth Olsen

    How I Met Your Mother star Josh Radnor made his feature writing and directorial debut with Happythankyoumoreplease. The film is charming and "cutesy" and while it won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival that year, I didn't love it (the film was later critically panned, receiving a 40% on Rotten tomatoes). Radnor's second…

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  • 'The Cabin In The Woods' Review: An Adrenaline Shot To Energize The Heart Of Horror

    When Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho opened in 1960 it was carried into theaters on a wave of advertising that commanded audiences to keep mum about the story’s surprising elements. Thanks in part to that ad campaign, Psycho became a hit that changed horror films even as it legitimized them. The mainstream horror genre quickly developed around…

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