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Surreal fairytales make up the English trailer for ‘The Tale of Tales’
Surreal is just the tip of the iceberg. The English trailer for the Cannes entry, The Tale of Tales, dropped on Wednesday and offered another look at the trippy movie. The film stars John C. Reilly, Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, Stacy Martin, Alba Rohrwacher, and Shirley Henderson. It is directed by Matteo Garrone. […] More
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Watch the disturbing, NSFW trailer for Cannes ’15 entry ‘The Tale of Tales’
Fresh off a nomination for the Palme D’Or at this year’s upcoming Cannes film festival is Matteo Garrone’s The Tale of Tales, a fantasy based on 17th Century Italian fairy tales by Giambattista Basile. The director behind Gomorrah and Reality is taking a foray into the English language, and this first look at his latest suggests […] More
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‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ is good, freaky fun
Of course, Guardians isn’t perfect, as it struggles to find a consistent tone. Sometimes it wants to be more adult, with bawdier language and sexual innuendo. For instance, Quill’s rumination that “If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock painting!” is pretty sophisticated for mainstream PG-13 fare. Other times, it feels as though the filmmakers are pandering to a much younger audience. You can almost visualize a ‘Dancing Groot’ doll gyrating in your kid’s Happy Meal. More
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‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ is solid entertainment, despite some wonky action and character work
For every good sequence, there’s one that’s muddled with bad camerawork and editing. Like a lot of blockbuster action, it’s barely legible; you have to work to keep up with it, and that work interferes with the enjoyment. The story also sags in the middle, as it seems to exist mainly to fill out the run-time. The protagonists take the MacGuffin to a dude they wish to sell it to, but the only real function of the section is to exposit what it is. It turns a big chunk of the plot into a shrug. More
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Video of the Day: Watch a new clip from ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’
While Marvel has been a juggernaut in the comic book industry for several decades now, the last few years have seen their studio arm earn similar success on the big screen, with movies such as Iron Man, Captain America, and The Avengers garnering them a new set of fans while renewing interest. News of a […] More
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Fantasia 2014: ‘Life After Beth’ entertains, but fails to truly rise from the grave
Twenty years ago, if someone said that ‘zombie romantic comedy’ was going to become an actual cinematic sub-genre, they’d have been called a witch and burned at the stake. And yet, they would have been right, and Fantasia 2014 has seen the unveiling of yet another film in the rapidly expanding genre, Life After Beth. Starring Aubrey Plaza of Parks and Recreation and Dane DeHaan, recently of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Life After Beth is best described as a zombie breakup comedy. It’s also best described as “decent, but not amazing”, a serviceable enough zom-rom-com kept afloat mostly by the supporting cast. More
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‘Guardians of the Galaxy’, the latest MCU feature helmed by James Gunn, gets a new trailer
While Marvel has been known as a powerhouse in the comic book industry for decades, their influence in the movie industry has steadily grown over the past few years, with films such as Iron Man, Captain America, and The Avengers bringing them a new set of fans, many of whom anticipate any movie under the Marvel […] More
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New trailer for Marvel and James Gunn’s ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’
A galaxy’s apparently at threat, but despite all the aerial combat and general punching of people, the trailer for Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy is positively jovial in spirit (in the sky). James Gunn (Super, Slither) directs this adaptation of a comparatively lesser-known superhero property, which stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Lee Pace, Benicio Del Toro, Karen Gillan, John C. Reilly, Glenn Close, Djimon Hounsou, Michael Rooker, Peter Serafinowicz, and the voices of Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper. To this writer’s mind, the (good) feeling that this looks like a weirder version of Firefly is strengthened by this first full trailer, which you can view below. Big damn heroes, etc. More
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 141: ‘Bears’
It’s been one week since the last episode of Mousterpiece Cinema, but just barely. On this week’s show, Josh and Gabe had to grin and bear it while discussing the new Disneynature documentary Bears. They’re joined by Sound on Sight contributor Zach Lewis to debate some of the big questions: how much do documentarians owe […] More
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‘Bears’ a gorgeous but untrustworthy new documentary from Disneynature
Bears Written by Alastair Fothergill and Adam Chapman Directed by Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey UK and USA, 2013 During its fledgling years as a film studio, the Walt Disney Company helped revolutionize the nature documentary with its True-Life Adventure series. Here, as never before, audiences could thrill to the story of seals, beavers, bears, […] More
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2014 Best Super Bowl Commercials features ads directed by David Gordon Green, Nicolas Winding Refn and more
With 111.5-million U.S. viewers, and a further 7.3-million in Canada, Super Bowl XLVIII was the most-watched in history. The commercial spots were the most expensive for any TV broadcast in any given year, and there were plenty of big name stars and A-list directors who helped create these very expensive advertisements. John Hillcoat, director of […] More
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Sundance 2014: Most Anticipated in U.S. Dramatic Competition
About the Sundance U.S. Dramatic Competition: “Presenting the world premieres of 16 narrative feature films, the Dramatic Competition offers Festivalgoers a first look at groundbreaking new voices in American independent film.” The Skeleton Twins Directed by Craig Johnson Written by Craig Johnson and Mark Heyman Saturday Night Live alumni Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig headline […] More
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