David and Devindra are joined by Matt Singer of The Dissolve to discuss the latest Godzilla film. Plus, Dave reports back from his first few days at SIFF. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Also, like us on Facebook! Download or Play Now in your Browser: Subscribe to the /Filmcast: SHOWNOTES What We've Been Watching…
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This week marks the start of the 40th annual Seattle International Film Festival, a 3-week movie extravaganza featuring over 270 feature films. That is, by any measure, an ungodly number of movies, and the whole thing can be pretty damn overwhelming. This will be my third year attending the festival I'm really looking forward to…
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It looks like doppelgangers, weirdly, are going to be one of the micro-trends of 2014. Earlier this month we got The Pretty One, an indie dramedy about a young woman who assumes her dead twin sister's identity, and next month we're getting Denis Villeneuve's Enemy, starring Jake Gyllenhaal trying to track down a man who looks…
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Richard Ayoade made a significant directorial debut with Submarine, and he returns to the director's chair for The Double. (Not to be confused with the 2011 thriller of the same name starring Richard Gere and Topher Grace.) The new film, based on a novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky, stars Jesse Eisenberg as a guy who discovers…
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Richard Ayoade has come a long way from the days when he was known primarily to Brit comedy nerds as ubergeek Maurice Moss from The IT Crowd. He wowed TIFF in 2010 with his feature directing debut Submarine, and returned to the festival earlier this year to earn still more buzz with his sophomore effort, The…
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Five years ago, Richard Ayoade was mostly familiar to American audiences, if he was familiar at all, as ubernerd Maurice Moss from The IT Crowd. Since his 2010 directorial debut Submarine, however, he's also known as... well, okay, he's still the guy from The IT Crowd, but now people might also know him as a…
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I enjoyed his debut feature Submarine enough that I would've been looking forward to Richard Ayoade's next effort no matter what it wound up being, but his sophomore project is already shaping up to be every bit as interesting as his first. Jesse Eisenberg was cast in the lead role last summer, and it's now been…
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If you have any interest at all in seeing The Double, in which Richard Gere plays a former CIA operative partnered with a young FBI agent (Topher Grace) to hunt down the head of a Russian ring of assassins, I'd say skip this trailer. Because in less than three minutes it might not show you…
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Here's one of several casting breaks to come your way in the next few hours, and this one is pretty damned good. Why? Because after the break you'll find info on the following: Nick Nolte takes a role in hard-boiled crime thriller Parker. Jesse Eisenberg plays dopplegangers in The Double. And Mark Ruffalo and Amanda…
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Sarah Polley is putting together a film she'll direct as a follow-up to the sad and terrific Away From Her, and she's just landed Sarah Silverman to appear alongside Seth Rogen and Michelle Williams. Take This Waltz is about "a young woman (Williams) whose struggles with infidelity leads her to the realization that she may…
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