L.A. Times - Movie News:
The hand-drawn animated Disney film set in jazz-soaked 1920s New Orleans is a refreshing, lively version of the fairy tale. The hand-drawn (Read More)
Mashable!:
In a few weeks, one of the most anticipated and expensive movies ever made will debut on movie screens across the world: Avatar. The sci-fi epic is making huge buzz for its unparalleled filmmaking technology, its award-winni (Read More)
L.A. Times - Movie News:
Director John Woo returns to his roots with a different kind of action picture than he is known for in Hollywood, an old-fashioned historical epic based on an AD 208 Chinese battle. (Read More)
Reuters:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Director and comic actor Tyler Perry, whose films include the recent "I Can Do Bad All By Myself," has given $1 million to the NAACP in the largest gift ever by a single person to that civil rights gro (Read More)
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Jon Hamm flashed a big smile after a meeting in LA yesterday afternoon. He's back in California after months working on The Town in Boston, as is his costar/director Ben Affleck. Jon's schedule is busy despite Mad Men ending (Read More)
Variety.com:
Spotlight: Morocco / Fest Traveler: Marrakech: Locations favored by world’s filmmakers -- Recently voted among the world's top five international locations by a Variety poll of film professionals, Morocco is one of the succes (Read More)
apophenia:
Last week, I gave a talk at Web2.0 Expo. From my perspective, I did a dreadful job at delivering my message. Yet, the context around my talk sparked a broad conversation about the implications of turning the backchannel into (Read More)
A.V. Club:
In true Patton Oswalt fashion, Christmas is a time for reflecting on the banality (and startling non-Christian-ness) of pop culture--particularly a little ditty called "The Christmas Shoes." It's a terrible, terrible song tha (Read More)
Variety.com:
Film News: Hutton, Sorvino, Delany drama set for release -- Indie ensemble drama "Multiple Sarcasms," starring Timothy Hutton, Mira Sorvino, Dana Delany, Mario Van Peebles and Stockard Channing, has been set for theatrical re (Read More)
Variety.com:
Film Festival Features: Arab event with international flair runs Dec. 4-12 -- With the snow-capped Atlas Mountains glistening in the distance, the Red City will roll out the red carpet Dec. (Read More)
Variety.com:
Film Festival Features: First, second films dominate competition -- This year's 15-film competition lineup in Marrakech includes eight first films and four second films.
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Variety.com:
Film News: Directors Friedkin, Taymor among those named -- IFP has announced the jurors for the 19th annual Gotham Independent Film Awards.
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Variety.com:
Film Festival Features: Domestic, foreign productions bring voice, coin -- Two film communities seek out different sides of Morocco -- and gravitate to different hubs within the territory.
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A.V. Club:
If Ninja Assassin boasted sexual content equivalent to its level of violence, it would be rated NC-17 and repulse even the most dedicated perverts. However, the MPAA is much more accommodating when it comes to wall-to-wall bl (Read More)
A.V. Club:
A sobering chaser to the apocalyptic swill of 2012, the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road has the good taste to not turn mass destruction into bread-and-circuses spectacle, and the integrity to recognize that when (Read More)
A.V. Club:
The problem with films about theater is that they tend to feel theatrical. They’re less about human beings than about actors pretending to be actors pretending to be human beings. That’s a central weakness of Richard Linklate (Read More)
A.V. Club:
Making a movie aimed at kids gives filmmakers license for a lot of things: butt jokes and poop jokes, of course—you can’t have one without the other—but also reaction shots of cute animals and montage sequence after montage s (Read More)
A.V. Club:
Rebecca Lee Miller’s melodrama The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee—which she based on her own novel—is told from the perspective of the title character, a former free spirit who suffers a spell of sleepwalking and uses the inciden (Read More)