There are more Stephen King film and TV adaptations than most people could count -- only the most die-hard fan or serious film and TV trainspotter would be likely to remember them all. But there is a small subset of King's fiction that has remained largely untapped: fantasy. The author doesn't have a lot of…
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This week, Dave, Devindra, and Adam praise the uniqueness of The Adjustment Bureau, conclude that I Saw the Devil is the revenge film to end all revenge films, and get disgusted by the complete amorality of Weekend at Bernie's. Special guest Tim League joins us from The Alamo Drafthouse. Check out the Alamo's SXFantastic series at SXSW this…
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The Adjustment Bureau looks at first like a thriller/romance hybrid; consider an alternate reality version of The Tourist, perhaps. But this film is not preoccupied with beauty; rather it contemplates the conflict between free will and predestination. That simple, eternal question becomes a sort of science fiction -- something closer to theological fiction, really --…
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There are new posters for three films today: indie and festival darling Rabbit Hole gets a new one-sheet that is very different from the last, while delayed thriller The Adjustment Bureau and I Am Number Four both get their own new images. See 'em all after the break. If you didn't like the slightly cheeky…
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Universal has shifted a few films around on the calendar. New berths for The Adjustment Bureau, Paul, Kids in America, The Dark Fields, Sanctum and Devil after the break. The Adjustment Bureau, which had already shifted back from an opening this summer to a September 17 opening, has been puished all the way back to…
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We've been waiting to see footage of George Nolfi's The Adjustment Bureau, which stars Matt Damon and Emily Blunt in a loose adaptation of a Philip K Dick short story, Adjustment Team. Now there's a trailer, and it is hard to tell what the movie is, exactly. There are moments which will remind you of…
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We have a bunch of new release date announcements/changes to report on, including the Kevin James comedy The Zookeeper, the Matt Damon/Emily Blunt thriller The Adjustment Bureau, the 2010 Sundance sensation Catfish, David Gordon Green's medieval comedy Your Highness, the James Cameron-produced Sanctum 3D, Ron Howard's comedy Cheaters, and The Night Chronicles: Devil. All the…
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Universal Pictures has released the first two photos from George Nolfi’s The Adjustment Bureau. The movie is a sci-fi romance based on the Philip K Dick short story The Adjustment Team. The movie follows an affair between a politician and a ballerina, which is "affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart." The film stars…
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Anthony Mackie has been a reliably solid supporting actor in the last couple of years; he's wonderful in The Hurt Locker and was entertaining as Tupac Shakur in the often woeful Notorious. Now he'll have a chance to continue that run in The Adjustment Bureau, the adaptation of a Philip K. Dick short story starring…
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