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REVIEW: Take Shelter Raises the Question, How Much Michael Shannon Is Too Much?

Casting Michael Shannon as a potential psychotic is a bit like crowing over the discovery that water is wet. And sure enough, in Jeff Nichols’s Take Shelter , Shannon gets his chance to go all bug-eyed and thin-lipped, to sweat through his clothes, to go ballistic on the neighbors, warning them that a big storm is coming and it’s going to wipe them out if they don’t get ready.

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Tom Cruise is the Greatest Auteur Slut of Our Time

What keeps Tom Cruise relevant after 30 years in Hollywood? Take this hint from his Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol director Brad Bird: “You look at the directors he’s worked with It’s a who’s who. Scorsese and Kubrick and Spielberg and Oliver Stone — when Oliver Stone was making better movies — and Michael Mann and Sydney Pollack and on and on and on. It’s kind of stunning. Not every one of them was a great movie, but he’s worked with great directors over and over again, and you can engage him in those conversations.” Or Paul Thomas Anderson. Or Ridley Scott. Or Brian De Palma. Or John Woo. Or Neil Jordan. Isn’t Quentin Tarantino hiring at the moment ? Let’s make that happen. [ LAT ]

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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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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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The New Trailer for Moneyball Changes the Game, For Good and Bad

Let’s get this out of the way up front: the latest trailer for Moneyball looks like the previous trailer for the film. It makes what many believed to be an unadaptable book into something dramatic, funny and altogether thrilling. At least in trailer form. (It helps that Brad Pitt is putting on the “full Redford” in the campaign; dude looks like Roy Hobbs’s son.) That said, there is a quibble — at least from a baseball standpoint.

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Kenneth Lonergan’s Epically Delayed Margaret Finally Gets Release Date

Party like it’s 2006! According to a Facebook posting from Exhibitor Relations, Margaret — Kenneth Lonergan’s long, long, long, long, long delayed follow-up to You Can Count on Me — will arrive in theaters on Sept. 30 via Fox Searchlight. The film stars Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, Matthew Broderick, Allison Janney, and Anna Paquin, and deals with the aftermath of a tragic school bus accident. [ Facebook ]

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Miss Philippines World 2007 Maggie Wilson Height Bio

Biography for Maggie Wilson Born Margaret Nales Wilson March 15, 1989 (1989-03-15) The Philippines Other names Maggie No. of films Let the Love Begin (2005) Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) Weight 122 lb (55 kg) Measurements 34-24-35 in Hair color Black Eye color Brown Title(s) Bb. Pilipinas-World 2007 Major competition(s) Bb Pilipinas 2007 (winner) Miss World 2007 Margaret “Maggie” Nales Wilson (born March 15, 1989 in the Philippines but raised in Saudi Arabia) is a British-Filipino beauty

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Bristol to Margaret Cho: Here’s a Gay Joke …

Someone needs to keep the Palin girls off Facebook — this time it’s Bristol posting an open letter to her “Dancing With the Stars” co-star Margaret Cho … and making a gay “joke” at Margaret’s expense. Bristol responded to a blog Cho wrote this week… Read more

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Dancing With the Stars results Sep 21 2010

In this photo provided by ABC, the new lineup of stars, from left, Brandy, David Hasselhoff, Jennifer Grey, Kurt Warner, Margaret Cho, Kyle Massey, Audrina Patridge, Rick Fox, Florence Henderson, co-host Brooke Burke, Bristol Palin, and host Tom Bergeron, pose for a photo in Hollywood, Calif., Monday, Aug. 31, 2010. The two-hour season premiere of #39;Dancing with the Stars,#39; airs Monday, Sept. 20 at 8 p.m. ET on the ABC Television Network. This evening ushered in the first results show of

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Dancing With the Stars results Sep 21 2010

Happy Zhong Qiu Jie 2010(中秋节快乐)

Illuminated decorations are set up at popular Victoria Park to celebrate the Chinese Zhong Qiu Jie in Hong Kong on Tuesday, September 21, 2010. Like ancient Chinese poets, Hong Kong people appreciate the beauty of the full moon in the Zhong Qiu Jie, which falls on Wednesday September 22, 2010 this year. Chinese people believe that on that day, the moon will be the biggest, roundest and brightest, and the term #39;round#39; implies family reunion in Chinese. For centuries, it was the quintessent

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