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Review: Synecdoche, NY
Charlie Kaufman, the genius mind behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and other existential films with shorter titles, has given people that don’t live in major cities another reason to wish...
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FSR’s Weekly Report Card for 11.14.08
QUANTUM OF SOLACE Studio: Columbia/MGM Rated: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, and some sexual content. Starring: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench,...
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10 Awesome New Photos Show Us ‘Where The Wild Things Are’
At this point we can’t even wrap our minds around the concept of not being excited about Spike Jonze‘s adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. If you didn’t read this book as a kid,...
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Review: The Soloist
Right around the time my voice started cracking, I started playing the piano. A few scraps of sheet music and my mother’s patience were basically all I had until I started taking formal lessons with...
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Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card for 10.16.09
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE Studio: Warner Bros. Rated: PG for mild thematic elements, some adventure action and brief language. Starring: Catherine Keener, Max Records, Mark Ruffalo, Lauren Ambrose and...
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Meet Max Records: The Heart of Where the Wild Things Are
Just walked out of an early show of Spike Jonze’s beautifully dark, touching film Where the Wild Things Are. It was very good. Put simply, I found it to be a thoughtful, artful and moving look into...
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians Trailer: Lil’ Titans Will Clash
Previously thought to be (a) way off the radar, then (b) not worthy of being on the radar in the first place, the Chris Columbus directed film Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief is...
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Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card: February 12, 2010
THE WOLFMAN Studio: Universal Rated: R for bloody horror violence and gore Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving and Art Malik Directed by: Joe Johnston What it’s...
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SXSW Review: Cyrus
I’ve gotten a bit tired of John C. Reilly doing so many comedies recently. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a damn funny man who elevates everything he’s in, but I’ve been increasingly afraid that a man with...
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Join Us in Columbus for ‘Cyrus’
Who wouldn’t want to land a date or two with Marisa Tomei, especially after her revealing performance in The Wrestler? But would you still go out with her knowing that Jonah Hill was her new age...
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‘Trust’ Trailer Finds Clive Owen Out To Catch And Sodomize A Predator
I don’t actually know for sure that Clive Owen’s character is interested in sodomizing the predator in question, but judging by the man’s past roles I have to imagine he’s weighing the option. Trust...
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‘Trust’ Trailer Makes You Rethink That Online Romance You Just Started
Things are going hot and heavy with that new crush you’ve formed online. You ignored Hard Candy and Catfish, but maybe you won’t ignore Trust. Directed by David Schwimmer, it seems to be a different...
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Join Us in Columbus for ‘Trust’
Many of us remember David Schwimmer from the television series Friends, but he has since dipped his toes into directing. His second feature, following up the comedy Run Fat Boy Run, is the drama...
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Interview: Liana Liberato Talks ‘Trust’
When most people hear David Schwimmer’s name, the first thing they think of is his bumbling character Ross on NBC’s mega-hit Friends. Sure, there’s a couple fans of Simon Pegg that will stampede to his...
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Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card: April 1, 2011
This week, Fat Guy Kevin Carr recovers from a full day of watching Armageddon back-to-back to crawl back to the multiplex. He re-lived the last eight minutes of Source Code over and over, thoroughly...
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Reel Sex: Lovely and Amazing…?
“Tell me what you like about my body,” came a shy voice from behind me. I mulled that sentence over for a moment. It seemed like such a strange request considering I already thought the guy was sexy...
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Kate Winslet and Catherine Keener to Tackle Charlie Kaufman Material Again in...
Charlie Kaufman’s directing followup to Synecdoche, New York has been in the casting stage for a while now, and already it has compiled an impressive core of male actors. Names like Steve Carrell,...
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Kate Winslet Is Not in ‘Frank or Francis,’ But Catherine Keener and Elizabeth...
A few days ago I reported on a story that two former female leads from Charlie Kaufman movies would both be working with the writer again, this time on his next directorial effort Frank or Francis. It...
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‘Peace, Love & Misunderstanding’ Trailer Puts Three Generations of Acting...
At first glance, Peace, Love & Understanding looks like your typical indie film. The focus is on characters – relationships between parents and their children, budding romances – and the humor...
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Charlie Kaufman’s ‘Frank or Francis’ Has Fallen Apart (For Now)
In an interview with Moviefone, Elizabeth Banks had some sad news to deliver: Charlie Kaufman’s Frank or Francis “fell apart at the last minute.” Banks was set to co-star along with Catherine Keener,...
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Will ‘JCVD’ Age Better Than ‘Being John Malkovich’ When It’s Over a Decade Old?
Being John Malkovich was an amazing success story upon its 1999 release. Not only was it a critical darling that got nominated for a bunch of awards, but it also successfully launched the big screen...
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‘A Late Quartet’ Trailer Shows Off a Fantastic Cast Making Difficult Music...
If Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Mark Ivanir and Wallace Shawn were in a movie together, would you go see it? Director Yaron Zilberman (Watermarks) is even throwing in...
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‘The Croods’ Trailer Lets Nic Cage Scream Like a Crazy Cave Man
With a monkey slapping a man, a young girl going crazy for shoes, and a cranky grandma, The Croods isn’t straying too far from the formula for harmless family comedy. It just happens to feature the...
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‘Enough Said’ Trailer Shows Off the Romantic Side of the Late James Gandolfini
Chances are there are quite a few things that James Gandolfini is going to be remembered for as an actor. But if there’s one big thing that really defines the bulk of his performances, it’s how he was...
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‘Captain Phillips’ Trailer Shows the Softer Side of Somali Pirates
There’s a new trailer online for Paul Greengrass‘ Captain Phillips, so if you’ve been feeling any urges to see Tom Hanks sport a wicked goatee and a somewhat-believable Southern accent (or you just...
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