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This Means War Trailer: See Tom Hardy, Reese Witherspoon and Chris Pine in a Sexy Spy Love Triangle

What if Hollywood reformatted the plot of Mr. & Mrs. Smith from he-spy vs. she-spy to be he-spy vs. he-spy over the same she? Then you would have This Means War , the upcoming action comedy from McG which stars Tom Hardy (with his real accent!) and Chris Pine as two secret agents who go head-to-head after learning they are dating the same woman, played by Reese Witherspoon. Oh, and did I mention that This Means War also marks Chelsea Handler’s live action blockbuster debut?

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This Means War Trailer: See Tom Hardy, Reese Witherspoon and Chris Pine in a Sexy Spy Love Triangle

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

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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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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Week in Review: Stranger Than Fiction

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

Bop Decameron or Nero Fiddled: Which Woody Allen Title is More Problematic?

Some of Woody Allen ‘s best films have had simple, straightforward film titles ( Annie Hall ! Crimes and Misdemeanors ! Hannah and Her Sisters ! Even Midnight in Paris …). But you know, I thought there was really something catchy to Bop Decameron , the former title of his current Rome-set next flick. Apparently, I may have been the only one who liked it; as Anne Thompson reports, Allen’s changed the title to Nero Fiddled . Riiiight.

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Bop Decameron or Nero Fiddled: Which Woody Allen Title is More Problematic?

REVIEW: Moretz Aside, Texas Killing Fields Not So Killer

Every time Sam Worthington shows up in a movie, I squint and ask myself, “Who’s that again?” That might happen two or three times with a new actor. But I feel as if I’ve seen a dozen Worthington performances by now, and I still squinted at him in Texas Killing Fields .

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REVIEW: Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In a Twisty, Sci-Fi Psychosexual Melodrama

The idea of building a person to spec — especially when that person is some form of ideal woman — is one that’s haunted the movies in variations from My Fair Lady to Vertigo to Bride of Frankenstein to Weird Science . It’s an echo of the constructing of a character that results in what you see on screen — a figure who’s the joint creation of an actor, director, writer, makeup artist, dialect coach, costume designer, ad infinitum. But it’s also a concept that provides a counter to the typical romance saga in which two people who are perfect for one other come together. Why search for your match when you can make one?

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REVIEW: Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In a Twisty, Sci-Fi Psychosexual Melodrama

The Great Tarantino/McQueen Slave-Movie Duel, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Happy Wednesday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: Yet another possible Leonardo DiCaprio project surfaces… Aaron Sorkin declined Steve Jobs’s invitation to write a Pixar film… Hilary Duff wants to be the next Stephenie Meyer… Occupy Wall Street’s celebrity dynamic gets a closer look… and more.

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The Great Tarantino/McQueen Slave-Movie Duel, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Kristen Stewart’s Snow White and the Huntsman Sounds Increasingly Badass

“Basically, I’m fighting evil — I’m fighting the most evil motherf–kers — and it’s fine that they’re being killed,” Kristen Stewart told Box Office Magazine of her currently-filming Snow White and the Huntsman . “It’s anguish. It’s literally f–king anguish. She takes absolutely no pleasure in ever hurting anything. I’m exhausted right now and I was thinking, ‘The fight stuff is coming up, maybe that won’t be so bad.’ And then I realized that they’re probably going to be my most emotional scenes because I’m killing people and I’m Snow White. It’s a really f–king cool way to approach a movie where so many people die.” Score another badass point in favor of SWATH . Sorry, other Snow White movie . [ Box Office Magazine ]

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