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A stage actor gone rogue and grammatically-correct tweets. Fresh-faced Gillian Jacobs might just be a maverick. She’s also our new It Girl. She’s also our new It Girl. Widely known to T.V. fans for her turn as Britta in the NBC series Community, Jacobs seemed destined for acting ever since her childhood in Pittsburgh. Theatre was her first passion. After an auspicious start on home turf (she first appeared in a play at the tender age of eight) Jacobs landed a role in the Philip Seymour Hoffman-directed The Little Flower of West Orange after spending a few years at Juilliard. Several features films later Jacobs is on her way to A-lister status. With the

Directors’ Fortnight (la Quinzaine des Réalisateurs), under the auspices of [...]

I saw Lee Hirsch’s documentary Bully (previously called The Bully Project) at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, before the sound mix was officially finished; shortly after it was purchased by the Weinstein Company. There may have been a few changes made before its release last Friday so I am writing, as it were, from memory. Bully couldn’t have been timelier. In the thirteen years since Columbine, America has seen an alarming uptick in suicides

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Adam Sandler confirmed his prowess in making bad movies by raiding the awards table at the Razzies yesterday. Sometimes, bad can be so good, Sandler beating all previous records by claiming the award in all ten categories for Jack and Jill, a funky comedy in which he plays a family man and his sister. In a strange twist Al Pacino won Worst Supporting Actor for playing himself in Jack & Jill while David Spade earned the Razzie for Worst