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Brand New Trailer for ‘The Road’ is an Improvement
The first trailer looked like a low-rent 28 Days Later. The most recent poster looked like direct-to-video schlock. So I suppose this new trailer making The Road look like a life-affirming adventure...
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Thanksgiving Movie Preview
Seven new movies are opening between now and Thanksgiving. With the weekend about to start, let’s take a look at each of them and see how they’ll fare as we head towards the holidays. This weekend...
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John Hillcoat: Exclusive Interview for The Road
John Hillcoat has been directing — occasionally — for years, starting with the 1988 prison drama Ghosts…of the Civil Dead and the 1996 indie To Have and to Hold. But it was 2005′s Western-inspired The...
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Box Office: New Moon & Blind Side Still Huge; Old Dogs & Mr. Fox Weak
As expected, The Twilight Saga: New Moon came in at #1 for the second weekend in a row, but the surprising part was how close The Blind Side came to beating it. Compared to those two behemoths, all...
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Biggest Box Office Weekend Ever! Avatar & Sherlock Holmes Both Top $60 Million
Christmas break usually brings in a ton of business, but the $278 million that the box office took in from Friday to Sunday was the biggest weekend of all time. Competition was tight throughout the...
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The Top 10 Best Movies of 2009
It’s that time of year again — when critics get in a reminiscent mood and start talking about how bad a year for movies it’s been. It’s a tired cliché, but this year, they might be right. Remember...
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Memo to the Weinstein Company: Expand ‘The Road’!
Ever since Harvey and Bob Weinstein split from Miramax to form the Weinstein Company in 2005, they’ve produced flop after flop. But this year they hit an all-time low, purposefully burying one of...
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Download 30 Screenplays From This Year’s Top Awards Contenders
UPDATE (Feb 2011): The screenplays below are from 2009. For 2010 movies, click here. Also, some of the links below link to PDFs on studio-run sites that have since been taken down. Stupid studios. —-...
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Poll Results: The Stupidest Thing About the Oscar Nominations
You may have noticed a new feature in the sidebar over the past week: a reader poll. Here are the final results, plus a preview of this week’s question. This will likely be a new weekly feature. I...
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Poll Results: The Best Post-Apocalyptic Movies
We asked, you answered: of the recent spat of post-apocalyptic movies, which are the best? The answers are more varied than I thought they’d be: none of the choices got shut out, and the...
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