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‘12 Years A Slave’ 2-Minute Spoiler-Free Video Review By David Chen/Nov. 1, 2013 4:00 pm EST Steve McQueen’s Hunger dazzled me with its meticulously constructed tableaus, its daring long takes, and its incredible central performance by Michael Fassbender. When I saw that film, I believed its director to be one of the best filmmakers on the planet. It boggled my mind that that was McQueen’s first feature film – if that was where this person was beginning, I couldn’t even imagine where he’d end up....

‘Big Hero 6’ Clip: Baymax Asks “How Would You Rate Your Pain?” By Russ Fischer/Sept. 2, 2014 11:57 pm EST Big Hero 6 is Disney’s upcoming animated film, loosely based on a Marvel comic series, that centers on a boy who weaponizes, or hero-izes as it were, his robot Baymax. We’ve seen a lot of the rotund white Baymax in previous materials for the film, but we still don’t know much about him....

‘Blue Ruin’ Trailer: Revenge Doesn’t Come Easy By Russ Fischer/March 3, 2014 2:30 pm EST There are some great small thrillers coming your way soon. The excellent Cheap Thrills is on VOD now, for example, and will be in theaters later this month. Following that is Blue Ruin, a movie that did the festival circuit last year and has earned a reputation as a lean and very compact thriller. I really enjoyed Blue Ruin; it doesn’t mess around, and doesn’t indulge in anything for the sake of impressing the audience....

‘For Ellen’ Trailer - In Which Paul Dano Is A Deadbeat Dad And Napoleon Dynamite Is His Lawyer By Angie Han/Aug. 14, 2012 5:00 pm EST Having played struggling writers in Being Flynn and Ruby Sparks, Paul Dano is switching gears to play a struggling musician in For Ellen, his third feature of 2012. Directed by So Yong Kim (Treeless Mountain), the indie drama centers around a wannabe rock star named Joby Taylor who never quite attained the fame and fortune he set out to achieve....

‘Gangster Squad’ Trailer: Brolin And Gosling Fight Violence With Violence By Russ Fischer/May 9, 2012 4:49 pm EST There are a lot of big, attention-getting films in 2012, and one that I forget about once in a while is Gangster Squad, the film in which Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer follows the efforts of a squad of LA cops (Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Nick Nolte, Giovanni Ribisi, Anthony Mackie) to stop the incursion of organized crime into LA, led by Sean Penn as famed mob boss Mickey Cohen....

‘Gone Girl’ Reveals First Clip, Four More TV Spots, And The Full Streaming Score By Angie Han/Sept. 25, 2014 1:00 pm EST Among them are the first Gone Girl clip, four new Gone Girl TV spots, and the full streaming Gone Girl soundtrack. Bury yourself in Nick and Amy’s twisted world after the jump. Eventually, however, things get bad between them. How bad? See for yourself with these four new Gone Girl TV spots....

‘Mad Men’ And ‘Better Call Saul’ Get Premiere Dates By Angie Han/Jan. 11, 2014 10:51 am EST For the past three years, summer has brought with it the start of a new season of Breaking Bad. That won’t happen in 2014, but something (hopefully) almost as good will. AMC has announced that the spinoff Better Call Saul will premiere in November, though they have not yet set an exact date....

‘Man Of Steel’ Figures Offer Better Looks At Zod, Faora, And Jor-El’s Armor By Angie Han/Feb. 11, 2013 11:14 am EST While it makes sense that the marketing for Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel would focus heavily on the Man of Steel (Henry Cavill) himself, it’s had the effect of playing down the other characters. No doubt General Zod (Michael Shannon) and Jor-El (Russell Crowe) play important roles in Superman’s journey, but we’ve barely gotten more than a glimpse of them in all the footage and stills so far....

‘RoboCop’ International TV Spot By Russ Fischer/Nov. 29, 2013 4:00 pm EST Want a new look at RoboCop, from director José Padilha and starting Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Abbie Cornish, Jackie Earle Haley, and Samuel L. Jackson? A Japanese TV spot is now online, featuring a few minor bits of footage that most of you probably haven’t seen yet. After this year’s crop of remakes (particularly Carrie and Oldboy) it’s difficult to think that a film like this has anything to offer....

‘The Next Three Days’ - What Did You Think? By Russ Fischer/Nov. 19, 2010 6:00 pm EST Paul Haggis has directed two theatrical features since 2004: the divisive, Oscar-winning Crash, and the far less-seen In the Valley of Elah. This weekend he returns with The Next Three Days, which stars Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks in a remake of the French thriller Pour elle, aka Anything For Her. When Lara Brennan (Elizabeth Banks), the wife of family man professor John Brennan (Russell Crowe) is arrested for murder, the family is shocked....

‘Transformers 4’ Will Shoot Partially In China By Russ Fischer/April 2, 2013 11:23 am EST Hollywood loves Chinese money, as the film audience in China makes up a significant portion of potential global box-office. As we’ve heard many times before, productions will shoot in China and/or cast Chinese actors not only to attract the local audience, but to qualify for distribution in the country. Some films, such as Looper and Iron Man 3, have even crafted China-specific versions....

Batman Fan Film Continues Story Of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 16, 2013 6:00 pm EST Though it was released over a year ago, there’s still some debate as to the ending of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises. Is Bruce Wayne alive, or a figment of Alfred’s imagination? Is John Blake going to become Robin, Nightwing or a new Batman? While there are certainly arguments to be made over the first question, the answer to the second is much more cut and dry....

Cool Stuff: Joss Whedon Art Show At Gallery 1988 By Germain Lussier/Sept. 5, 2014 7:00 am EST Edgar Wright had one, J.J. Abrams had one, and now Joss Whedon is having one. Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles is hosing a Joss Whedon art show starting opening from 7-10 p.m. September 5 and on display through September 27. Artists from around the world were given carte blanche to make all kinds of art based on the world of Whedon with the exception of The Avengers, because Gallery 1988 already hosted an Avengers exhibit a few years back....

Cool Stuff: Rhys Cooper’s ‘Femme Fatale’ Art Show In San Francisco By Germain Lussier/May 30, 2014 12:04 pm EST Are you a fan of badass women in pop culture? Well then you should check out Spoke Art in San Francisco this weekend. They have the first solo show ever of Australian artist Rhys Cooper called Femme Fatale and Cooper has reimagined the women of comics, fantasy and literature in stunning, evocative color and detail....

Duncan Jones Wants To Follow ‘Warcraft’ With ‘Mute’ By Angie Han/July 16, 2014 8:54 am EST Even as he puts the finishing touches on Warcraft, Duncan Jones is already looking ahead to his next project. And though Warcraft represented a step forward for him in some ways (it’s certainly his biggest film in terms of budget) it seems he’s eager to go back to a project he’s been working on for some time already....

Exclusive: Acme Archives And DreamWorks Animation Team Up Beginning With ‘Kung Fu Panda’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 24, 2014 4:45 pm EST Fans of DreamWorks Animation titles like Kung Fu Panda and How To Train Your Dragon have reason to celebrate today. They’ve teamed up with Acme Archives to do official posters for their popular films and we’re proud to debut the first of the bunch. It’s Kung Fu Panda by Dave Perillo and it’ll go on sale January 31....

First Look: Christian Bale, Amy Adams And Bradley Cooper In ‘American Hustle’ From David O. Russell By Russ Fischer/July 30, 2013 10:54 am EST The shot above is one of the first two official photos from the next film from David O. Russell, American Hustle. Based on the ’70s “Abscam” FBI sting in which the FBI targeted corrupt officials by luring them with a fictional Middle Eastern sheikh who supposedly wanted asylum in the US....

First Look: Denis Leary As A Washed-Up Rocker In New FX Series ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ By Russ Fischer/June 30, 2014 1:30 pm EST Denis Leary and FX are teaming up once more. Leary’s show Rescue Me (above), which he co-created with Peter Tolan, ran for seven seasons on FX, ending in 2011. Now the channel has ordered a ten-episode first season of Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, in which Leary stars as Johnny Rock, a would-be rock star who nearly became a sensation in the early ’90s before torpedoing his career my making terrible choices....

First Look: Simon Pegg Wears A Killer ‘Stache In ‘Kill Me Three Times’ By Russ Fischer/Nov. 11, 2013 11:00 am EST Briefly: Simon Pegg is looking pretty sleek in this first image from the film Kill Me Three Times, which showed up in THR’s print mag seen at the American Film Market. Along with Pegg, the movie features Luke Hemsworth (brother of Chris and Liam), Sullivan Stapleton, Alice Braga, Bryan Brown, Teresa Palmer, and Callan Mulvey in a thriller that sees Braga as a singer in the middle of a plot that spirals into blackmail and vengeance....

First Look At Ultron In ‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ [Updated With More New Pics] By Germain Lussier/July 16, 2014 11:12 am EST The cover of this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly has our first look at Ultron as he’ll appear in Avengers: Age of Ultron. In fact, there are multiple Ultrons, and the story confirms they were made by Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) Check it out below. Update: We’ve added a set of additional shots from EW....