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Daniel Radcliffe in The Woman in Black and Your Super-Shirtless, Super-Bearded Man of Steel

“The most chilling ghost story of our time?” you say, new trailer for The Woman in Black ? We’ll be the judge of that. So far it looks like Harry Potter has gone back in time to trudge worriedly through a haunted house stocked with creepy little girls and jump scares. Can’t he just retire these spooks to some old paintings on the wall and be done with them, already? Expecto petr-ho-hum, if you ask me. But take a look for yourself, and stick around for more of your Friday Buzz Break.

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Oscar-Chasing The Artist Starts Strong In NYFF, Hamptons Festival Tour

The Artist , the silent film that has emerged since Cannes as one of the year’s presumptive Oscar front-runners , finally makes landfall in the States this weekend: Following tonight’s East Coast premiere at the New York Film Festival, Michel Hazanavicius’s tribute to old Hollywood rolls out for audiences at the Hamptons Film Festival. And if today’s early reactions at the NYFF press screening were any indication, all signs point to success.

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Steven Seagal Sworn in to Texas Border Patrol, For Real

Actor-musician-martial arts expert-reality TV lawman Steven Seagal is adding a new credit to his offscreen resume: Sheriff’s deputy. Yes, this is real, even if it seems like a page taken right out of, say, Machete . The 59-year-old Seagal reportedly rang the West Texas’ Hudspeth County Sheriff’s Office months ago for the position and “will be working full time to help secure the U.S. -Mexico border.” This is the world we live in. Details after the jump.

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Shame Trailer: Michael Fassbender Battles Sex Addiction For an Oscar

For the past few weeks, Movieline’s own S.T. VanAirsdale has been listing Michael Fassbender as one of the top five front runners for next year’s Best Actor Oscar for his work in Steve McQueen’s* upcoming erotic drama Shame . Finally, a trailer for the acclaimed film has surfaced, giving evidence again for why Fassbender — who played X-Men: First Class ‘s Magneto — is so worthy of your crushes, why he ran away with the Best Actor Award at this year’s Venice Film Festival and why all of those early rave reviews for Shame were warranted.

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Shame Trailer: Michael Fassbender Battles Sex Addiction For an Oscar

9 Milestones in the Evolution of Steve Martin

In this weekend’s The Big Year , Steve Martin stars as a wealthy retiree who spends his free time spanning the globe in search of rare bird species — a passion that gives way to a competition against his similarly “birding” enthused friends played by Jack Black and Owen Wilson. So just how does a Texas-born stand-up transform himself into the only successful actor/comedian/author/playwright/banjo player/Emmy winner/onscreen bird watcher in Hollywood history?

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Week in Review: Stranger Than Fiction

Whew! It’s been quite the eventful week here at Movieline, what with Netflix’s Qwikster dying on the vine, indie theater owners giving Universal and VOD what for, and the crazy real life developments you couldn’t have dreamed up. (Random Task, we’re looking at you… in fear.) Hit your Friday Week in Review and come tomorrow for the weekend stylings of Louis Virtel.

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At HIFF: Alexander Skarsgård Loves the Hamptons, Critics Not So Much

Greeting from the Hamptons International Film Festival! Located just a two-hour bus jaunt east of New York City, the fest seemed like an ideal place for Movieline to embark on an overnight filmgoing getaway. And just like that, I bumped into Alexander Skarsgård, who’s here representing Lars von Trier’s spellbinding (if mildly embattled) masterpiece Melancholia .

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At HIFF: Alexander Skarsgård Loves the Hamptons, Critics Not So Much

The Coens Choose Oscar Isaac, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Happy Friday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: What will they call the Zorro reboot?… John Singleton closes in on the Tupac biopic… The Whistleblower gets its UN close-up… You’ll never guess what opened the Mumbai Film Festival… and more.

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The Coens Choose Oscar Isaac, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

5 LGBT Documentaries to Watch After You Come Out

In continuation of Movieline’s LGBT History Month commemoration, we’re racking up five amazing LGBT documentaries that newly out people of all ages, genders, socioeconomic statuses should see. The short list encompasses political, religious and cultural interpretations of homosexuality, and all are must-see movies featuring proud, self-possessed queers. Let’s review the LGBT documentary past, from rallies to realness.

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REVIEW: Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage Fend Off Half-Assed Home Invasion in Trespass

There’s so much shouting in Joel Schumacher’s hostage thriller Trespass that you start to imagine the cast must have had to take every third day off to sit around in wool scarves with lemon tea focusing on regaining the ability to speak. If you were to down a shot every time someone screams “Go!” or “Run!” you’d expire of alcohol poisoning before the credits ran. Taking place over the course of one shrieky evening, the film presents a home invasion scenario to fit up with our new era of class warfare accusations — a group of desperate thugs posing as policemen force their way into the high-end lakeside home of a diamond dealer and his family, who turn out to be struggling through their own financial dire straits.

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