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Watch Ellen Barkin Strangle Demi Moore, Battle Ellen Burstyn in Emotionally-Charged Another Happy Day Trailer

Imagine Rachel Getting Married , but instead of one emotionally unpredictable family member silently threatening to upset a family wedding, there are multiple. Enter Another Happy Day , the directorial debut of Sam Levinson (son of Barry) which features Ellen Barkin in a juicy comeback role as the volatile mother of the groom, Ellen Burstyn as her mother, Thomas Haden Church as her ex, Demi Moore as her ex’s new wife, recent Verge designee Ezra Miller as her drug addict son and Kate Bosworth as her cutter daughter. If your head’s not yet spinning, click ahead to see the family member-on-family member emotional crimes on display in the trailer for the messy matrimonial movie event of the year.

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Watch Ellen Barkin Strangle Demi Moore, Battle Ellen Burstyn in Emotionally-Charged Another Happy Day Trailer

The Most Sensitive and Insightful Review of 50/50 You’ll Read By a Guy Talking Like the Incredible Hulk

If you haven’t joined the cult of Film Crit Hulk , the anonymous blogger who writes astoundingly observed film musings in the character and voice of The Incredible Hulk, now’s as good a time as any to start reading with his recent post on Jonathan Levine and Will Reiser ‘s cancer dramedy 50/50 .

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The Most Sensitive and Insightful Review of 50/50 You’ll Read By a Guy Talking Like the Incredible Hulk

Werner Herzog to Play Villain in Tom Cruise Vehicle One Shot

Today’s mind-blowing, near-unexplainable but still awesome casting news: Werner Herzog , German filmmaker, roadside angel, and the man François Truffaut once called “the most important film director alive,” has been cast opposite Tom Cruise in One Shot , writer-director Christopher McQuarrie’s adaptation of Lee Childs’ Jack Reacher novel. Details after the jump.

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Talkback: Seriously, Who Asked For a Mister Ed Movie?

Guys, it is really time that we sit down and have a long, hard discussion. I don’t know which of you keeps suggesting that we continually adapt and remake the beloved TV series and films of our youth but it has got to stop… especially after hearing today’s announcement that Fox 2000 is reviving the ’60s talking horse series Mister Ed for the big screen.

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Talkback: Seriously, Who Asked For a Mister Ed Movie?

See Mark Wahlberg Return To a Life of Duct Tape-Assisted Crime in the Contraband Trailer

Did you guys realize that Mark Wahlberg and Kate Beckinsale were starring in a little heist movie called Contraband ? Me neither, but that’s probably because Universal has quietly scheduled the film, from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, for a quiet box office death release next January. But we’re going to need something to watch during that winter wasteland month so let’s take a look and see if super-angry Mark Wahlberg, his abs, and and Kate Beckinsale undressing for the camera can’t motivate us to buy tickets.

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Build Your Own Scary ‘Dream House’ Using the Creepiest Rooms in Movies

Dream House promises to chill you with intrigue and suspense, but will the actual ‘dream house’ provide any of the scares? Here’s hoping yes. Freaky houses are a touchstone in horror cinema, and today I’m building a blueprint for a spooky manse made only from rooms in creepy movies. Norman Bates, Jack Torrance and Leatherface all contribute to the interior decoration.

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Build Your Own Scary ‘Dream House’ Using the Creepiest Rooms in Movies

Director Bennett Miller on Why Moneyball Worked: ‘It Became Personal to Me’

This fall’s hit baseball drama Moneyball stars Brad Pitt as a beleaguered Oakland A’s general manager who turns his team around with a formula designed for quality optimization. Ironically, director Bennett Miller employed a similar strategy when adapting Moneyball , the long-gestating project based on Michael Lewis’s book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game for the screen.

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Director Bennett Miller on Why Moneyball Worked: ‘It Became Personal to Me’

REVIEW: Kenneth Lonergan’s Flawed But Glorious Margaret Somehow Hits the Mark

There’s always been a soft spot in my heart for grand, uncompromising, crazy-eyed acts of directorial ambition/folly — films like Southland Tales and The Fountain , Heaven’s Gate and One From The Heart — that are either disaster or genius depending on who you talk to but that could never be described as restrained. Margaret , playwright Kenneth Lonergan’s second turn as a director after 2000’s very good You Can Count on Me , joins these titles after spending years in post-production purgatory as Lonergan reportedly struggled over a final cut, following lawsuits and studio battles and delays upon delays. (Among those listed in the opening credits are two people who’ve passed away since production began, executive producer Anthony Minghella and producer Sydney Pollack.)

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Ashley Greene Makes Out With Twilight Brother Kellan Lutz in Warrior’s Heart Clip

If you’ve been writing twisted Twilight fan fiction in which Alice Cullen (Ashley Greene) and Emmett Cullen (Kellan Lutz) make out in a prep school library, you’re in luck. While Greene and Lutz don’t make the incestuous connection in Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (that we know of), they do lock lips as new, unrelated characters in the upcoming drama A Warrior’s Heart .

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Ashley Greene Makes Out With Twilight Brother Kellan Lutz in Warrior’s Heart Clip

A Few Things About the First Trailer — and First Rumors — for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

This week’s edition of Oscar Index made the point of allowing for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close as an awards contender on paper, while withholding any specific hype until we’d all seen at least a trailer. Hours later, that trailer arrived. But even more interesting than the footage therein? How about the test-screening gossip trickling out around Stephen Daldry’s magic-realist 9/11 tearjerker? [Warning: Spoilers ahead.]

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A Few Things About the First Trailer — and First Rumors — for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close