Watch This: Black Panther Artist Talks Politics and ‘Night Catches Us’
Night Catches Us, the drama featuring Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker) and Kerry Washington (For Colored Girls), aims its sights on racial tension in 1970s Philadelphia to show another side of...
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Hendrix Estate Crushes Hopes for Paul Greengrass’ Jimi Hendrix Biopic
In some alternate universe out there, there’s a film by Paul Greengrass starring Anthony Mackie as the talented and troubled Jimi Hendrix. Sadly, we don’t live in that universe because Experience...
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Print To Projector: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
As the only literate Reject, it’s my duty to find the latest, the greatest and the untouched classics that would make great source material for film adaptations. I read so you don’t have to. There has...
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Review: The Adjustment Bureau
The Adjustment Bureau, loosely adapted from a Philip K. Dick story, takes on one of science fiction’s stock themes. Fans of Lost, for example, or Minority Report or The Matrix will recognize the...
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Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card: March 4, 2011
This week, Fat Guy Kevin Carr gets an added dose of tiger’s blood and Adonis DNA to make it through all the movie-watching he endures. He bats about .500 in his screenings, really liking some but...
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Movie News After Dark: The Rock Calls It, Michael Bay Keeps Truckin’ and...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s like watching CNN or the New York Times, but funnier and without all of the big words. It covers movie news every night in a way that no other movie news column set...
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‘Real Steel’ Trailer Shows Off The Human Side of Boxing Robots
What happens when you work your way to the top of the game, and the game changes? You have to change it back. What’s been lovingly dubbed the “Robot Boxing Movie,” Real Steel hasn’t shown much in the...
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Movie News After Dark: Ebert on Your iPad, The Faces of Ron Swanson, The...
What is Movie News After Dark? Usually it’s a pretty straightforward look at what’s happening in the world of film. But sometimes, mostly on Friday nights when we’ve run out of actual news, it becomes...
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Reel Sex: Choosing Between Love and Success in ‘The Adjustment Bureau’
Due to an overwhelming need to embrace my inner hermit the last few weeks I have forgone my usual weekend gallivanting in favor of staying home with movies. It might seem as if I’m turning into a cat...
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Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card: October 7, 2011
This week, Fat Guy Kevin Carr strips down to his boxers and starts a new training regimen to make him look more like Huge Jackman. He’s got a head start, considering his torso looks almost like...
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Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card: January 27, 2012
This week, Fat Guy Kevin Carr tapes some alcohol bottles to his knuckles and gets ready to brawl with wolves. Unfortunately, he first drinks all the booze in the bottles and ends up passing out in the...
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Review: ‘Man on a Ledge’ Lives Up to Its B-Movie Title
“You know, Mikey, one day you’re going to stick your dick in the wrong door, and somebody’s going to slam it,” and that line represents Man on a Ledge in a nutshell. Goofy and laughable, but overall...
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Interview: Elizabeth Banks Talks ‘Man on a Ledge,’ Non-Gender-Specific Roles,...
Not a whole lot of negotiators on film look like Elizabeth Banks. They’re usually gruff, jaded, overweight, sloppy, and any other cliche description you can think of. Most of those adjectives don’t...
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Anthony Mackie Might Bulk Up for Michael Bay’s ‘Pain and Gain’
Goddammit, Michael Bay. All I want to do is make fun of you for your stupid TNT-rigged and robot-starring Transformers franchise and you just won’t let me. While we all know by now that Bay is indeed...
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Don’t Worry, ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ Will Be a Hard-R
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter doesn’t exactly pop out as your typical summer blockbuster. To broadly compare it to this season’s offerings: it’s not based on a comic book, isn’t adapted from a toy...
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‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ Red Band Trailer Shows Honest Abe Getting...
Poor ‘lil Stevie Spielberg. Come Oscar season he may have a tough act to follow with his Daniel Day Lewis-starring Lincoln pic, the one which probably won’t feature Lincoln’s finest achievements:...
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Timur Bekmambetov Again Blends Reality and Fantasy with ‘Abraham Lincoln:...
“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” is not the most cinematic of books. If Seth Grahame-Smith‘s novel was a completely faithful adaptation, it’d make for a ten-hour movie. In its translation to the big...
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Review: Better Than Expected, ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ Is Still...
It’s hard to imagine how Abraham Lincoln could loom larger in the American mythos, but Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter appears to have found an answer. After all, what could compare with the awesome...
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Benjamin Walker Maintains a Straight Face for ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’
“The joke ends in the title” has been a popular selling point for the makers of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Now, with the film out in the world, there will inevitably be question over that...
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The Falcon Will Soar in ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’
Those with comic book reading experience can tell you that Marvel’s recent announcement that Captain America 2 will be released under the title Captain America: The Winter Soldier points to the fact...
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