• While the blogosphere is lighting up with talk of the new Prometheus trailer (which looks really cool, by the way) I’ve been trying to find new information about Spring Breakers, a Harmony Korine-helmed film currently in production. It's about a group of girlfriends who rob a restaurant in order to pay for a vacation at the beach. The choice of the actors defies expectations: Emma Roberts, Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens, all of which

  • 21 Jump Street yields three solid chuckles in one-hundred-nine minutes of running time, which is simply inexcusable. Though engineered by human beings (directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller), 21 might as well be a factory-made blueprint of Starsky & Hutch, Hollywood’s last nod to kitschy television shows. Take a cult T.V. cop show (the late eighties-early nineties Fox series 21 Jump Street, which put Johnny Depp on the map)

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  • Magnolia Pictures has acquired the rights to Bel Ami, an [...]

  • Read a novel that changes your life, inspire the greatest Hollywood filmmakers. That’s what happened to French director and novelist Pierre Schoendorffer, who died yesterday at his home in France. In 1942 he read Joseph Kessel’s Fortune Carrée and set out on a new course. In an interview he said, “I wanted to become a sailor, travel the world and verify that the earth was round.” Beyond the wonders of discovery lied the need for expressing what he saw: filmmaking came naturally. He would enlist in the Indochina War so that he could make movies. As army video recordist

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  • Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson and other stars are [...]