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Will Ferrell is taking a break from big budget pictures for a small independent film titled "Everything Must Go," a project which will be financed for less than $10 million dollars. Dan Rush will be making his directorial debut....(more)
Two hundred years ago smart but ordinary people who had the gusto, if not luck, to fall in love could probably have never anticipated that there would be audiences in the future that would have sighed tenderly over their love affair. John Keats, the 1800’s poet of such treasured works as “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” and “Ode to a Nightingale,” fell in love with Fanny Brawne who became not just his idolized love but his influential muse....(more)
" Days of Summer" is a film with five hundred seeming replays or a number close to it. Very few romance films are this nimble and supple – full of those moments that occupy relationships between smart, inquiring and contemplative twenty-something’s....(more)
Ryan Reynolds, fresh off his summer which included "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" and "The Proposal," will be looking to star in the indie thriller "Buried." According to Variety, Reynolds will play "a civilian contractor who's kidnapped in Iraq and awakens buried in a coffin in the desert, armed only with a cell phone, a candle and a knife....(more)
No other film in recent memory has a duller and more washed out color palette than Away We Go. Why is this film so atrocious to look at?...(more)
By Sean Chavel in Los Angeles Stephen Soderbergh, the Oscar-winning director of “Traffic” and the blockbuster “Ocean’s Eleven” movies, retreats to small art-house movies in-between his studio pictures. Sometimes he makes a couple in a row....(more)
"Departures" is a gentle, transfixing film experience that takes itself on storywise as an elegy for the dead but in some miraculous way, reaching to higher a epiphany, makes you reexamine the spiritual connections in your own life. This Japanese film adopts the themes in awakening enlightenment and following your life’s calling....(more)
By Sean Chavel in Los Angeles Sasha Grey is a porn star of 150-plus titles who has broken into the American mainstream movie business via director Steven Soderbergh who cast her in “The Girlfriend Experience.” The film is a deliberately arty but arresting look at a high-rental call-girl , a black & white classic that had similar themes with a working girl....(more)
"The Girlfriend Experience," about a $2,000 an hour girl, is a movie about sex without ever showcasing sex to its fullest act. It’s most lurid scene turns out disappointing when a client suffers premature ejaculation before he even has a chance to grope the half-naked Chelsea ....(more)
Focus Features has tapped George Clooney to star in "A Very Private Gentleman." Variety reports that Anton Corbjin will direct this feature film adaptation of the novel by Martin Booth....(more)
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