11 Horror Movies That Actually Take Place On Halloween
Here are a batch of horror movies set on Halloween, which makes them doubly appropriate for seasonal viewing this week.
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Watch A Video Dedicated To Those Who Didn't Get Academy Award Nominations: 'Snubbed 2012: An Oscar Tribute'
Oscar season is over, and so we're at the point where everyone can spend a day or two talking about the actual winners before moving on to enjoying the great bounty of films that 2012 has to offer. But before we move on, take one last moment to enjoy a fake Oscar tribute reel. This…
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'We Need To Talk About Kevin' Poster Calls Back To 'Rosemary's Baby'
Living waaaay out in the sticks (that is: Atlanta) I haven't yet had a chance to see Lynne Ramsay's discussion-sparking 2011 film We Need to Talk About Kevin. But I know the basics, which are that Tilda Swinton plays the mother of a young man named Kevin (Ezra Miller) who isn't, let's say, the most…
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Telluride Festival Primary Lineup Announced: New Cronenberg, Payne, Herzog Films Playing
The Telluride Film Festival, a presentation of the National Film Preserve which takes place beginning tomorrow, Friday Sept 2 and runs through Monday Sept 5, is an unusual beast as far as film festivals go. The core film lineup is not announced until the day before the festival begins, so attendees have to commit to…
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'We Need To Talk About Kevin' French Teaser Trailer And Poster
One of the most buzzed-about films at Cannes this year was Lynne Ramsay's third feature, We Need to Talk About Kevin, in which Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly play the parents of the sociopathic Kevin, played by Ezra Miller. The adaptation of Lionel Shriver's 2003 novel was hailed as a difficult but fascinating film,…
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First Toronto Festival Announcements Include New Work From George Clooney, David Cronenberg And Francis Ford Coppola
If you're more interested in the typical fall slate of festival entrees than summer's glut of tentpole action fare, this is a great week. The Toronto International Film Festival announced the first wave of films that will play the fest in September. This is a batch of about 50 titles, which makes up only a…
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Cannes Showstopper 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' Picked Up By Oscilloscope
Forgive me, but we need to talk about Lynne Ramsay. She has made only three films, the first two being Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar. Both are great pieces of work -- Ratcatcher is a movie that I go back to again and again. Others can have their Amblin movies as snapshots back into their youth;…
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'There Will Be Blood' Composer Jonny Greenwood To Score 'We Need To Talk About Kevin'
The name Lynne Ramsay may not ring any bells right now, but the talent she's been surrounding herself with for her next project indicates that this could change very soon. Ramsay wrote and is currently in the midst of directing We Need To Talk About Kevin, based on the novel by Lionel Shriver about a…
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Casting Notes: John C. Reilly In Lynne Ramsay's New Film; Daniel Brühl And Paz Vega In Castro's Daughter
Imagine being director Lynne Ramsay watching Peter Jackson's terrible version of The Lovely Bones. Ramsay made two excellent films, Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar, the latter way back in 2002, then was attached for quite some time to film The Lovely Bones. That obviously didn't happen, but for the past year she's been working instead on…
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BBC Announce Huge Slate Of Feature Film Projects
Excuse me if this story reads like little more than a really long list of future films but there are so many new movies on the BBC's slate, and so many of them sound so good, that I want to give them all a quick shout out. There's going to be something for everyone (well,…
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