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“Loving” by Jeff Nichols: Gorgeous, Wistful Drama on Slavery Leftovers is the Most Mainstream Palme Contender Yet

It’s hard not to like Jeff Nichols’ latest drama “Loving”, …

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Brooding sci-fi of ‘Midnight Special’ excels with style and humanity

Jeff Nichols’s new sci-fi thriller, ‘Midnight Special,’ is like a masterclass in mood and style.

Natalie Portman Turns Gunslinger in ‘Jane Got a Gun’ Trailer

“Got enough firepower here to start another war.” When a …

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‘Black Mass’ is Depp’s return to form

Watching Jack Nicholson in The Departed it would be easy to think “Wow, this guy can’t be real” but that would be incorrect.

TIFF ’15: ‘Black Mass’ is good but never great

Black Mass is the true-life crime story of the infamous gangster, James Whitey Bulger. Bulger, the brother of a state senator, spent thirty years as an FBI informant while forging his way to the top of Boston’s criminal underworld.

Top-notch thriller ‘The Gift’ sneaks up on you

Unapologetically smart and calculating, ‘The Gift’ is an unnerving cocktail of creepiness and human frailty. Easily the most surprising film of the summer thus far.

Watch a new trailer for Joel Edgerton’s feature filmmaking debut ‘The Gift’

While Joel Edgerton’s feature film work has been in front …

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Johnny Depp is teaching lessons in new trailer for ‘Black Mass’

Johnny Depp can still act? It appears so after this …

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SOS This Week Podcast #2: Steven Spielberg, Mark Wahlberg and ‘Mulan’

Welcome back to SOS This Week, the weekly film news …

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Joel Edgerton gets behind the directing chair for paranoid thriller, ‘The Gift’

Simon says….look out for Joel Edgerton and his goatee. The …

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New Projects: Patty Hearst, ‘Barbershop 3’, and a Lego spinoff

Just days after the 39th anniversary of the conviction of …

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‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’ needs more divine inspiration

Exodus: Gods and Kings Written by Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, …

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Final trailer for Ridley Scott’s ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’

Ridley Scott has made another epic. This time it is …

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Christian Bale is Moses in ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’ trailer

Moses is the hero Egypt deserves, but not the one …

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Two Left Feet: How “El Tango de Roxanne” Represents Everything Wrong with Baz Luhrmann

Moulin Rouge! is a mixed bag. It’s an idea that …

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‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’, the newest feature from Ridley Scott, gets its first trailer

Over the course of a career going back nearly 50 …

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‘The Rover’ reinforces David Michod’s powerful filmmaking abilities.

A dystopian future is a solid foundation of any interesting film. Bleak surroundings and despicable characters comprise these future worlds and their stories explore the very raw and basic instincts of man. Australian export The Rover is no exception and the results are pretty solid. The talented Guy Pearce turns in an intense, fully believable performance here and Robert Pattinson isn’t half bad in an unconventional role.