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Netflix’s 10 Most Rented Movies Will Shock, Delight, and Sadden You

Posted on October 1, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Netflix may be a little unpopular at the moment, but I assume you’re holding onto a couple of red envelopes right now, right? (I’ve had Barefoot in the Park for two months, and I desperately need to move on to A Patch of Blue . I can hear Shelley Winters bellowing at me from beyond the grave.) The company just released a list of the ten most rented movies in its history, and you’ll have several reactions to it: 1) Really? A few of these are surprising. 2) Really? A few of these are kind of cool. 3) Of course that damn movie is #1. Of course.

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Talkback: Should Chris Nolan Direct The Twilight Zone?

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According to Variety, Christopher Nolan tops the shortlist to helm Warner Bros.’ Twilight Zone reboot, but he’s not alone on the list of potential candidates; Michael Bay , Alfonso Cuaron, and Rupert Wyatt are also in the mix to direct the big-budget, single-story version based on Rod Serling’s original sci-fi television series. Nolan may have an in with producer Leonardo DiCaprio and the studio that released his last five films, not to mention the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises . But should he get the gig?

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

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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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Tom Cruise is the Greatest Auteur Slut of Our Time

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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’

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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

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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

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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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Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln Sounds Thrilling!

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“We start shooting in October. Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book Team Of Rivals is much too big a book to be a movie, so the Lincoln story only takes place in the last few months of his Presidency and life. I was interested in how he ended the war through all the efforts of his generals… but more importantly how he passed the 13th Amendment into constitutional law. The Emancipation Proclamation was a war powers act and could have been struck down by any court after the war ended… But what permanently ended slavery was the very close vote in the House of Representatives over the 13th Amendment — that story I’m excited to tell.” Fine, but who will pay for the 3-D glasses? [ Empire ]

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Armored Kristen Stewart Smokes Cigarette, Rides Into Sunset With Chris Hemsworth in Snow White Set Pics

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Ever since hearing Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron promote their upcoming Snow White and the Huntsman project as dark, gritty and atypical of the Disney franchise at Comic-Con, we’ve been excited to see what the cast and director Rupert Sanders would come up with. Now, on the heels of the promising concept artwork , some set photos have surfaced showing Stewart as a horse-riding, cigarette-smoking, armor-wearing princess unlike any other.

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Bad Movies We Love: Halloween H20

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Since Joseph Gordon-Levitt is titillating you with cancer this week in 50/50 and Josh Hartnett is storming the art-house circuit with Bunraku , we have no choice but to revisit their joint alma mater, the hallowed halls of Halloween H20 . It’s not the best Halloween movie, and it’s certainly not the worst, but as October dawns and the season of the witch descends, we’re due for a fright — and Halloween H20 delivers. It’ll loosen the Activia from your trembling constitution.

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