Isn't there something offputting about Samuel L. Jackson's conscious effort to use strong language? Follow him on Twitter and you get a serious dose of invectives. But in his new video segment to get out the vote for Obama in November, he’s putting his direct manner to good use. In the video, Jackson stresses, with his signature blunt use of words, that voter apathy could get Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan in the White House, a catastrophic

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Whatever happened to misbegotten youth? Don’t you long for the old days, when young misfits were French, ran everywhere and stole things? What happened to the old days, when a good American movie character could look forward to a life of crime on screen? Nowadays they take medication. And moan about not being popular. And make mix tapes and try to get people to feel sorry for them. Has American youth taken a turn for the

On the “Rebel Rebel” L.P. Bowie sang, “You've got your mother in a whirl / She’s not sure if you’re a boy or a girl.” These lyrics are perfectly suited to an upcoming film about the Thin White Duke to be directed by Wim Reygaert and Stephen and David Dewaele of the Soulwax DJ collective. Soulwax, an alternative/rock/electronic collective from Belgium, has often performed under the

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Writer-director David Ayer really likes cop-themed movies. He’s done all kinds of them, from frivolous fun ones ("S.W.A.T") to police corruption (“Street Kings,” “Dark Blue,” “Training Day”) ones. These have all been riveting in their own way and “End of Watch” is no exception, but this is fairly new territory in that it breaks down the brotherhood of cops. Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena play Brian and Mike, South

Europe may now just be on equal footing with Hollywood in terms of sound-stage real estate thanks to Luc Besson (“Taken,” “Nikita”). The French filmmaker’s twelve-year-in-the-making dream of a movie studio has materialized with the official inauguration last night of the Cité du Cinéma (City of Cinema) in the northern Paris suburb of Saint Denis. Visibly moved, the director drove home the point during his remarks to the 300 or