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Watch: Official Trailer for Indie 'Indignation' Starring Logan Lerman

Watch: Official Trailer for Indie 'Indignation' Starring Logan Lerman

[ad_1] Watch: Official Trailer for Indie ‘Indignation’ Starring Logan Lerman by Alex Billington May 12, 2016Source: HuffPo “I’m afraid something terrible will happen…” Summit & Roadside have released an official trailer for James Schamus’ Indignation, an adaptation of the Philip Roth late novel, starring Logan Lerman as a boy from New Jersey attending a small, conservative college in Ohio.…

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Ben Affleck & Anna Kendrick Star in First Trailer for 'The Accountant'

[ad_1] Ben Affleck & Anna Kendrick Star in First Trailer for ‘The Accountant’ by Alex Billington May 13, 2016Source: YouTube “Can our son lead a normal life?” “Define normal.” Warner Bros has debuted a trailer for the upcoming fall film The Accountant, about an accountant helping launder money for criminals. Ben Affleck stars as an accountant working at a small-town CPA, cooking up the…

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Official Trailer for Ira Sachs' New Film 'Little Men' with Greg Kinnear

Official Trailer for Ira Sachs' New Film 'Little Men' with Greg Kinnear

[ad_1] Official Trailer for Ira Sachs’ New Film ‘Little Men’ with Greg Kinnear by Alex Billington May 13, 2016Source: YouTube “Our parents are involved in a business matter…” Magnolia Pictures has debuted the first official trailer for Ira Sachs’ Little Men, a film about two boys growing up in New York City. I was a huge fan of Ira Sachs’ previous film, Love is Strange, and while I didn’t…

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"Hannibal" is one of the most visually driven shows in TV history. Here's how those images looked on paper.

How it is I never saw this article about Alana and Margot’s sex scene?

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Why Hollywood Should Keep Destroying Cities - Sam Adams

In an essay posted Friday at The Dissolve, Tasha Robinson used Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim to counter the objections several critics have raised about the wanton destruction of this summer’s blockbusters: city blocks flattened, heads crushed, all…

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More important than allowing women to prove they can hack it with the boys is for the industry to recognize what women have already accomplished: to put as much effort into developing female audiences, for there are many, as into wooing geeks at Comic-Con, and to realize that The Heat's $40 million (and counting) box-office take is not a fluke but a window into a hunger that Hollywood is doing a lousy job of feeding.

—Sam Adams, new editor of Indiewire's Criticwire blog (and soon-to-be Dissolve contributor), responding to Susan Wloszczyna's provocative piece at RogerEbert.com about why Hollywood should be handing the reins of blockbuster franchises to female directors.

[ianbuckwalter]

Criticwire Survey: The Dud You Love

This week's survey asked: "What movie widely regarded as a cinematic dud do you like (or maybe even love)?" Here's what I had to say:

While I think maybe it's gained a small cult following over the past decade, the critics' scores and box office numbers for Antonia Bird's Western-cannibal-horror flick, 'Ravenous,' are pretty anemic: 37% on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 45 on Metacritic for a movie that didn't even manage to make back 20% of its $12 million budget. That response has always surprised me, as it's a movie that I immediately became attached to when I first saw it, and go back to regularly. Yes, it's a film of wild mood swings, starting out on the bloody battlefields of the Mexican-American war, moving to a bleak and isolated military outpost in a Sierra Nevada mountain pass in what looks to be a turn towards frontier survivalism, and then out of nowhere it becomes a supernaturally-inflected, gory cannibal horror piece. But the genre mashup works, thanks to really fantastic performances from Guy Pearce as a cowardly army captain and the scene-chewing Robert Carlyle, tapping the same reservoir of villainous likability that fueled his turn as Begbie in 'Trainspotting.' Jeremy Davies, Jeffrey Jones, Neal McDonough, and yes, even David Arquette round things out nicely with a lot of really well balanced black comic relief. On top of all that, 'Ravenous' boasts one of the most striking scores from any film of the 90s, featuring off-kilter riffs on 19th-century Americana from Blur's Damon Albarn along with Michael Nyman.

You can have a look at the other critics' responses over at Criticwire.

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Earlier this year, I coined the term "perpetual sneak preview culture" to describe the kind of marketing overload that has started to take hold at some film websites. Every day there's a new teaser, or behind the scenes featurette, or five exclusive new stills. Each one comes with its own prediction-laden blog post; each builds up bigger expectations that are harder to match. We start to confuse good marketing with good moviemaking -- or worse, we assume bad marketing equals bad moviemaking. We form our opinions, then watch the movie as a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy. "John Carter" looks bad, hence "John Carter" is bad (or, for a 2013 example, how about "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters?") The "Zero Dark Thirty" ads that run during NFL football sell it as a piece of macho, patriotic action, hence "Zero Dark Thirty" is a piece of macho, patriotic action.

Matt Singer, Criticwire,

http://blogs.indiewire.com/criticwire/my-movie-related-new-years-resolution

something anyone who digests cinema could heed.