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‘Orphan Black’ and ‘Jane the Virgin’ stars among lead shortlist for ‘Star Wars: Episode VIII’

With The Force Awakens just months away, the next director in the new Star Wars trilogy is eying a new female lead. According to The Wrap, Gina Rodriguez of Jane the Virgin, Tatiana Maslany of Orphan Black, and Olivia Cooke of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl are being sought for a female lead …

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Ten filmmakers whose skills would be well-suited to television

The migration of filmmakers from the big screen to the small one is not a new phenomenon, but another team was formally inducted this weekend, with the Wachowskis’ Netflix series Sense8 making its debut. The duo join the ranks of others such as Steven Soderbergh, and they are far from the last ones, as Steve …

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Rian Johnson to direct Star Wars Episode VIII

Rian Johnson, the director behind Brick and Looper, will direct Star Wars Episode VIII and IX, as Deadline reported Friday from a source at Lucasfilm. Johnson would take over from J.J. Abrams, currently working on Episode VII. This also follows after announcements that Josh Trank (Chronicle) and Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) would be helming Star Wars spinoff …

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‘Don Jon’ surprisingly misanthropic commentary on modern romance and gender roles

It is hard not to wonder, while watching Don Jon, exactly how much Joseph Gordon-Levitt can’t stand the culture of which he is a part. His directorial debut (which he also wrote) is a deeply cynical portrait of what he must consider the shallowest elements of pop culture.

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Breaking Bad: Behind the Scenes Pics of “Ozymandias”

Sunday night, director Rian Johnson delivered, what many are calling the best episode of Breaking Bad so far. “Ozymandias” marked Johnson’s third time directing AMC’s hit series, following Season 3′s “Fly” and Season 5′s “Fifty-One” – and boy was it intense. Simon reviewed the episode saying that it, “brings the season to a head in …

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Breaking Bad, Ep. 5.14: “Ozymandias” brings the season to a head in stunning fashion

Breaking Bad, Season 5, Episode 14: “Ozymandias” Written by Moira Walley-Beckett Directed by Rian Johnson Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on AMC – Holy bloody damned hell. – First, some (mild) vindication. I mentioned last week that there was absolutely no way this week’s outing would open with Hank dead, just like that. True enough, once …

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Staff List: The 40 Best Films of 2012

#10: The Cabin in the Woods (107 points) Written by Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard Directed by Drew Goddard USA, 2012 Like Scream, it’s a self-aware slasher film, but where Scream was happy simply to turn the genre’s bloody glove inside out and examine the stitching, The Cabin in the Woods has more complicated ambitions. If Scream is …

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Ricky D’s 50 Favourite Films of 2012 (Part Two)

  25: The Dark Knight Rises Directed by Christopher Nolan Screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan 2012, USA The Dark Knight Rises feels as if it was made up of two equal halves, with the most critical moment of the film breaking the movie in half, almost literally. While the second half may have …

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Ricky D’s 50 Favourite Films of 2012 (Part One)

2012 wasn’t a bad year for movies. It was actually a great year. The problem is, the movies we were most anticipating, specifically the Hollywood blockbusters like Prometheus and The Hobbit, didn’t live up to our expectations. With that said I still managed to make a list of 50 films I loved. Maybe I just …

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‘Upstream Color’ Image Gallery

[callout]Upstream Color / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Shane Carruth) — A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives. Cast: Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig, Thiago Martins.[/callout]

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Rian Johnson’s Pitch Reel for his latest effort, ‘Looper’, now released

Director Rian Johnson has been slowly gaining acclaim in the film community for his unique feature films, which he also writes, the latest of which is the Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt starring time travel thriller Looper. Before a film can go into production, however, directors are expected to create a Pitch Reel that effectively …

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Rian Johnson’s Clockwork Men

Brick Written and directed by Rian Johnson. imdb USA 2005 Edgar Chaput’s Review The Brothers Bloom Written and directed by Rian Johnson. imdb USA 2008 Looper Written and directed by Rian Johnson. imdb USA 2012 Sound on Sight podcast about Looper. Simon Howell’s review. Josh Spiegel’s review. Edgar Chaput’s review. Josh Slater-William’s review. Modern Times Written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. …

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2012’s Great Movie Moments: September

Spring Breakers – Opening Sequence Having been at TIFF this month, attempting to select favorite scenes without going entirely overboard– well, it may not exactly be as drastic as Sophie’s choice, but that is the first label that comes to mind. Spring Breakers is one of many very strong showings from Toronto this year, and …

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Rian Johnson’s superb ‘Looper’ is the best Hollywood sci-fi of recent memory

Looper Written and directed by Rian Johnson USA/China, 2012 Of its numerous strengths, one of Looper’s greatest is that, despite featuring narration by its lead character, it heavily relies on visual storytelling to successfully convey both information and emotion. The narration delivers as little exposition as necessary to begin understanding both of its dystopian worlds, …

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‘Looper’ Lego

The Tumblr round-up is a compilation of images, links, posters, stories, videos and so on, taken from the Sound On Sight Tumblr account. We simply do not have the man power nor time to write articles on every interesting movie related goody we find, so this is our way of still promoting some of the …

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‘Brick’ is about more than just the fancy talking

Brick Directed by Rian Johnson Written by Rian Johnson U.S.A., 2005 It speaks to a director’s qualities as a storyteller that even before his or her third film is released, their every word and hint and what may be to come has film aficionados exuberant with gleeful anticipation. Rian Johnson is one such director, having …

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Suffering From Withdrawal? Here Is the Very Best of the First Three Seasons of ‘Breaking Bad’ – #2

Top 10 Episodes #2 – Season 3, Episode 10: ‘Fly’ Directed by Rian Johnson Written by Vince Gilligan & Sam Catlin It is a shame that while so many people spent six long years awaiting the series finale of Lost, those very same folks were missing possibly one of the greatest bottle episodes ever aired …

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