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Zack Snyder’s take on Krypton’s last son may have been pushed to nearly two years away, but that doesn’t seem to have interrupted the production schedule of “Man of Steel” in the slightest. The director has been busy shooting away in Illinois for the past couple of weeks, and now we have our first glimpse…
We’re big Quentin Tarantino fans, and we make no effort to hide it from folks. But even taking that into account, we’re outrageously excited for the filmmaker’s “Django Unchained.” Part of that is due to the sensationalistic subject matter, and the idea of the post-Civil War American South getting the “Inglourious Basterds” treatment, but equally…
A truly strange cow punk flick, “Bad Day” just surfaced 24 years after it was shot by Modi Frank and Exene Cervenka of the L.A. punk band, X. It features legends like X bassist and frontman John Doe, The Flesh Eaters singer Chris D, and Grammy winner Dave Alvin, who also scored the film —…
Technically speaking, this week’s straight-to-DVD film didn’t go straight to DVD. “The New Daughter,” starring Kevin Costner, did receive a very small release last December. How small? So small that people who cover movies for a living had no idea the film was coming out until the day before it opened (this, by the way,…
Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 film “The Battleship Potemkin” boasts the double-edged distinction of containing a sequence so famous — the “Odessa Steps,” part of the very ABCs of film history — that people who’ve never seen the movie are intimately familiar with it, the same way everyone’s seen a rocket launch into the moon’s eye-socket even…
The BP oil spill continues apace, resonating with showbiz types in the strangest ways. First came Kevin Costner, who arrived in New Orleans last week bearing a machine that — unbeknownst to everyone, apparently — he’d been funding the development of since the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident he swears can purify 200 gallons of water/oil…
Got $5.4 million burning a hole in your pocket? Love nostalgic baseball movies with daddy issues? Boy, have the Lansings of Dyersville, Iowa have a deal for you. As reported by the Associated Press, the Lansings, the owners of the iconic farmhouse, cornfield and baseball diamond from 1989′s pastoral man-weepie “Field of Dreams” have put…
“I believe in the church of the baseball,” Susan Sarandon’s Annie Savoy said in “Bull Durham.” I do too. Especially right now in early April, when the weather is perfect, and every team has a chance, at least hypothetically, to go all the way. In a few months, half the teams playing and half the…
Reviewed at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. While a variety of films from “Up in the Air” to “The International” have found an icy beauty in the clean lines and empty spaces of modern corporate life, there’s a strange, quiet pall cast over the blank offices and boardrooms that make up the landscape of “The…
