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‘Labor Day’ a rare misfire from Jason Reitman, Kate Winslet, and Josh Brolin

Labor Day Written and directed by Jason Reitman USA, 2013 It’s all too fitting that, at one point midway through Labor Day, two of the lead characters are sitting in front of a TV, watching a network broadcast of Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind. This film’s writer-director, Jason Reitman, no …

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Inside Out 2012: ‘My Best Day’ is as American as a McDonalds apple pie

My Best Day Written and directed by Erin Greenwell USA, 2012 At one point in the film, Karen (Rachel Style) says that, “I’m sick of all the bullshit streaming out of everyone’s mouth. Including my own”. Out of all the ornate, haphazard, and abject silliness that happens in Erin Greenwell’s My Best Day, this statement is …

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Jason Reitman’s Anonymous Narcissists

Thank You For Smoking Directed by Jason Reitman Written by Jason Reitman, based on the book Thank You For Smoking by Christopher Buckley imdb, USA, 2005. Juno Directed by Jason Reitman Written by Cody Diablo imdb, USA, 2007. Up in the Air Directed by Jason Reitman Written by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, based on the …

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A Brief History of Title Design

Put together to compete in the SXSW Title Design Competition, Ian Albinson has edited a large mix of some of the greatest film and television titles ever made. Slashfilm reports that the websites mission is: A compendium and leading web resource of film and television title design from around the world. We honor the artists …

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JK Simmons Cuts to the Chase

“Don’t you see, the complexity is what makes it all so brilliant!” For those who found Inception simply annoying and convoluted, those jokers at CollegeHumor.com have recently produced the instructional video Inception Characters Don’t Understand Inception. In it, an increasingly exasperated actress who looks nothing like Ellen Page attempts to get her head round the …

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