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how to pretend a movie is not about a woman (because who likes Milla Jovovich anyway?)

Thu, Jun 04, 2015
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Why is the U.S. marketing for Survivor pretending that Milla Jovovich is not the protagonist of the film?

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I know you’re all dying to know what I think of 50 Shades of Grey…

Thu, Feb 12, 2015
25 comments

But if there was a press screening of the film in London, it was kept a bigger secret than Christian Grey’s Red Room.

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help bring What We Do in the Shadows to theaters across the US

Tue, Jan 27, 2015
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The stars and filmmakers, Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, are raising money on Kickstarter. Sucks that the industry won’t support this brilliant movie.

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London photo: Tim Burton and Christoph Waltz at a Big Eyes Q&A

Mon, Dec 08, 2014
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Tim Burton has a new flick this holiday season…

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London photo: everyone wants to see Rosewater at LFF

Tue, Oct 14, 2014
2 comments

I wasn’t sure what sort of a draw Jon Stewart would be at the London Film Festival, but there was a huge mob at the press screening of his film.

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movies I can’t wait to see at the 58th BFI London Film Festival

Thu, Sep 04, 2014
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LFF is a veritable orgy of cinema, and I love it. It’s exhausting, but I love it.

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no Transformers review from me today (but it and more reviews are coming over the weekend)

Fri, Jun 27, 2014
15 comments

Including Snowpiercer! (Which I had to cheat a little to get access to.)

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let’s shoehorn some women into Star Wars?

Tue, Jun 03, 2014
47 comments

More than a month after J.J. Abrams announced “the” cast for his upcoming Star Wars flick, suddenly we’ve got two new cast members!

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man I am officially tired of being asked to sympathize with: Liam Neeson in A Walk Among the Tombstones

Mon, Jun 02, 2014
32 comments

“Formerly a detective with the NYPD, now a recovering alcoholic haunted by regrets…” Oh, FFS, Hollywood, change the goddamn record already.

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two things about Edge of Tomorrow

Fri, May 30, 2014
8 comments

I am unsatisfied with my review, I am mean to Tom Cruise in my head, and the secret reason the film is opening in the UK a week before the US. So three things.

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