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RoboCop Remake Director Misunderstands Phrase ‘Urgently Needed’

Posted on September 22, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Love the fire, Jose Padilha, but come on : “I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop , and I think that such a film is now urgently needed. But I will not repeat what [original director Paul] Verhoeven has done so clearly and strongly. Instead I try to make a film that will address topics that Verhoeven untreated. If you are a man changes into a robot, how do you do that? What is the difference between humans and robots developed? What is free will? What does it mean to lose your free will? Those are the issues that I think.” [ Film 1 via The Awl ]

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REVIEW: Machine Gun Preacher Fails as a Tale of Rebirth, Redemption and Kicking Ass

Posted on September 22, 2011 by | Leave a comment

There’s a theoretical sweet spot to be found for Machine Gun Preacher — that of the multi-quadrant film, as the marketers say. It aims to be a hard-charging actioner that’s also a based-on-a-true-story tale of rebirth and uplift; an earnest, somber look at conflicts in Sudan that’s simultaneously a faith-centric, family-oriented redemption song. Directed by Marc Forster (of, appropriately enough, Quantum of Solace and Finding Neverland ) from a screenplay by Jason Keller (who’s also credited as one of the writers on Tarsem Singh’s upcoming take on Snow White ), Machine Gun Preacher always seems aware that it’s working off ripe material, but can’t fit it into beats that work on-screen.

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REVIEW: Inspirational Dolphin Tale Doesn’t Go All Soppy

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You couldn’t come up with a simpler, more nakedly inspirational story than the one told in Dolphin Tale : Unhappy, disengaged child of single mom finds a wounded dolphin caught in a trap’s ropes and cuts it free; proceeds to bond with the rescue group that’s working to rehabilitate said dolphin; becomes a chief player in dolphin’s gradual and difficult return to swimming with confidence.

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REVIEW: Taylor Lautner Avoids Poking Himself in the Eye — Barely — in Abduction

Posted on September 22, 2011 by | Leave a comment

It’s been established that Taylor Lautner can shuck a mean shirt, but can he hold together an action movie in its lead role? Over the approving shrieks of the Twilight fans in the audience, I’m going to gently suggest that at the moment, the answer is no. As Nathan, the teenage hero of Abduction , Lautner shows he’s handy with stunts, many of which he clearly and impressively performs himself, and good with a fight scene. But when it comes to exchanges of dialogue, displays of emotion or just standing around, he’s stiff and manifestly uncomfortable — this may be the first film I’ve even seen where when an actor goes to put his hand thoughtfully on his chin, it’s so awkward I became afraid he’d somehow miss and poke himself in the eye.

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Lights Out: Theme Park Review rides an “It’s a Small…

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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Lights Out: Theme Park Review rides an “It’s a Small World” knockoff at Suzhou Amusement Land in China, accidentally discovers cure for sleep. [ thedisneyblog .] Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 18/09/2011 19:01 Number of articles : 2

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REVIEW: Gus Van Sant’s Restless Is Sweet, If Feather-Light

Posted on September 16, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Restless is so fluttering and tender, so guileless, that you almost can’t believe it was made by an grizzled old hand like Gus Van Sant. Then again, maybe you can. Annabel (Mia Wasikowska) and Enoch (Henry Hopper, son of Dennis) play somber teenagers who meet at a memorial service. Enoch is haunted by the death of his parents — he lost them suddenly in an accident. Annabel has her own secret, spilled early on: She’s dying of cancer. They fall in love, quickly and fervently, knowing only doom and sadness await them — and they’ve never even seen Love Story.

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REVIEW: I Don’t Know How She Does It Has Plenty of Fear and Loathing to Go Around

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The title phrase of I Don’t Know How She Does It is lobbed repeatedly at intrepid working mom heroine Kate Reddy (Sarah Jessica Parker, who also provides a Sex and the City -style pontifical voiceover) throughout this alleged comedy, sometimes in celebration, sometimes out of envy or condescension. Inherent in it is a swirl of self-doubt and competition. To be a mother, director Douglas McGrath’s film suggests, is to be in the constant grip of guilt and judgment, worried that you’re not giving enough, convinced that others are doing things better or more correctly than you, soothed when they appear to be doing worse.

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Photo Booth: Portraits from the 2011 Toronto Film Fest

Posted on September 12, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Child actors all grown up, Oscar-winning directors popping their collars, stars going silly for the camera — anything goes when you stick actors and filmmakers in the studio for some good, old-fashioned family-style portraits. See who came to town for the 2011 Toronto Film Festival and gave good face for the camera, uberdramatic, super goofy, and otherwise, in Movieline’s TIFF 2011 Photo Booth .

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Letter from Toronto: Hysteria Hums Along; Albert Nobbs Drops the Tea Tray

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A tribute to vibrators and the women who love them, Tanya Wexler’s Hysteria is a jaunty little entertainment that’s almost plowed under by its early-suffragette arguments for women’s equality. But like the little motorized whatsit that is its subject, the movie’s charms are ultimately irresistible.

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REVIEW: Limp, Clueless Bucky Larson is No Bright Shining Star

Posted on September 9, 2011 by | Leave a comment

It’s not like Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star aspires to be Citizen Kane , or Monty Python and the Holy Grail or even Wedding Crashers . All it wants to be is a silly, raunchy comedy about the rise of an extremely unlikely adult film actor. That it fails so spectacularly in this regard makes it almost something special — not only is Bucky Larson incredibly unfunny, it’s also squeamish in a manner that makes you wonder if either writers Adam Sandler (who produced the film via his Happy Madison company), Allen Covert and Nick Swardson (who plays Bucky) have somehow never actually seen porn, or if they subcontracted the script out to a group of eight-year-olds with only the vaguest idea of what it entails. The latter would explain how incidental sex is to what’s theoretically a movie all about it, from an early scene in which we learn that our hero has never masturbated or even heard of the concept, to the porn career he establishes, in which he never actually comes into contact with his costars.

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