The good news for a lot of comedy fans today is that NBC renewed Community for a fourth season. There's a catch, however. That season is a truncated 13-episode order at this point. And while EW reports the renewal, the site says that the returns of series creator Dan Harmon and actor Chevy Chase are…
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Premiering at next month's SXSW Film Festival in the movie mecca of Austin, Texas is The Ride, a thorough and serenely choreographed doc on young professional bull riders, rodeo entertainers, and the lucrative, tradition-heavy subculture that supports them. To some, the flick will appear an unlikely release from VICE Films, part of the media-and-culture empire that…
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Move over Dune, your time is up. Iain M. Banks' The Culture is finally coming to the big screen. The first of Banks' science fiction novels to portray 'The Culture' was Consider Phlebas, published back in 1987. That was when I was a young teenager and always keen to find the next big thing in…
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Obviously, the staff at /Film collectively views Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are with a certain reverence. The film is simply a win all around, tastefully exploring and modernizing the notions of imaginative nostalgia and vice versa that are so often exploited these days in the name of "geekdom" and "hipsterdom." On a related…
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