• Fourteen Orgasmic Character Posters For Lars Von Trier's 'Nymphomaniac'

    All you have to say is "Lars von Trier sex movie" to get someone interested in Nymphomaniac. The controversial director has told many visceral and beautiful stories over his career, often with a great sexual frankness, that the idea of him making full movie about sexuality just screams "potential." Speaking of screaming, fourteen character posters for…

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  • 'Nymphomaniac' Clip: Uma Thurman Teaches Her Kids An Awkward Lesson

    In the first clip from Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac, two bored young women turned sex into a game. The latest snippet, however, warns that sleeping around can have its downsides. Pulled from a segment titled "Mrs. H," it shows Joe (played as a young woman by Stacy Martin and as a grownup by Charlotte Gainsbourg) dealing with…

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  • New 'Nymphomaniac' Image, Film Opens Christmas Day In Denmark

    Lars von Trier may have been banned (or "banned") from Cannes two years ago for statements made while promoting Melancholia, but that hasn't stopped him from having a presence at the fest this year. His new film(s), the two-part Nymphomaniac, weren't finished in time for the fest, but the release of a new image (above)…

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  • Uma Thurman Is The Latest To Join Lars Von Trier's 'Nymphomaniac'

    Briefly: With seemingly everyone and their mother (particularly the mothers) fascinated by the "supermarket smut" of Fifty Shades of Grey, it's as good a time as we've seen in years for attention-getting erotic fiction. Which is what Lars von Trier's new film(s) Nymphomaniac seems to be, at least on the surface. The two-part story will…

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  • 'Playing For Keeps' Trailer - Soccer Moms Love Gerard Butler

    When a holiday movie schedule is as crowded as this year's promises to be, it's actually kind of a relief to see a trailer for a year-end release that looks like lighthearted, feel-good entertainment with no apparent aspirations of picking up a little gold man come February. The romantic dramedy Playing for Keeps (formerly Playing the…

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  • Exclusive 'Savages' Featurette: "On The Set: Cartel Take-Down"

    In July, Oliver Stone is going back to his lurid daylight noir style (think U-Turn) with his adaptation of Don Winslow's novel Savages. The film features Taylor Kitsch and Aaron Johnson as a couple of pot growers whose business ends up in the crosshairs of a more powerful Mexican drug lord (Salma Hayek). Her henchman…

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  • TV Bits: AMC Developing 'Thief Of Thieves' From 'Walking Dead' Creator Robert Kirkman, Plus: 'Married... With Children', 'Mockingbird Lane', Charlie Sheen

    In today's TV Bits, Uma Thurman puts on her dancing shoes and Charlie Sheen comes back from the dead. After the jump: AMC picks up another Robert Kirkman comic, Thief of Thieves Charlie Sheen's Anger Management gets a new teaser Uma Thurman does her best Marilyn impression for Smash Fox revisits the first episode of…

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  • 'Savages' Trailer: Oliver Stone's Colorful Drug War

    Yesterday we saw the first bit of footage from Oliver Stone's new film Savages, in which the girlfriend (Blake Lively)of two pot growers (Aaron Johnson and Taylor Kitsch) is kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel, the better to get said growers to work for the bigger outfit. The film features the sort of cast you'd…

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  • First Footage From Oliver Stone's 'Savages' Has A Colorful '90s Glow

    Think back to the Oliver Stone films of the 1990s. Not so much JFK and Nixon; more like U-Turn, Natural Born Killers and Any Given Sunday. Those films had a stylized, hyper-saturated color palette that clearly gave Tony Scott some ideas. For instance, on U-Turn, Stone's cinematographer Robert Richardson shot on reversal film stock --…

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  • 'Bel Ami' Trailer: It's A Seriously Rough Life For Robert Pattinson

    In the past year there have been more than a few trailers for Bel Ami, the story set in late 1800s Paris in which Robert Pattinson plays a guy who sleeps and seduces his way into wealth. The film has played some festivals to middling reviews, but now that the first official US trailer has…

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