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Trailer for Martin Scorsese’s ‘Hugo’ Is a Runaway Train
It’s fascinating that the director of Taxi Driver is the man who put this together. Martin Scorsese once again shows his versatility by tackling Hugo, an adaptation of the popular children’s novel...
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Movie News After Dark: Oldspendables, The Lone Ranger Returns and The Ira...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s the roughest, toughest, meanest movie news column around. It also owns one of those silly shirts and smokes cigars. Of that, you can be sure. We begin our newsy...
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10 Must-See Movies of November 2011
Last month the Oscar season officially kicked off, and this month we’ll be getting plenty more Oscar baiters and real contenders to add to the mix. We’ll get another Brett Ratner film, the 25th film...
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Martin Scorsese Says 3D Is Here to Stay, Holograms Are the Future of Film
The film world has recently experienced a bit of a backlash against 3D movies. Not only have film writers of all sorts repeatedly harped on what a needless gimmick adding a third dimension to an...
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Rising ‘Hugo’ Star Asa Butterfield Offered ‘Ender’s Game’ Lead
It’s likely going to be a very happy holiday season for the Butterfield family, as rising star Asa Butterfield is already lining up his next big starring role even before his biggest project hits...
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Review: Magical ‘Hugo’ Uses New Technology to Tell Old-Fashioned Tale
It’s hard to overstate just how amazing it is to consider a big-budget, major studio-produced 3D family adventure centered on Georges Méliès. Before now, the work of the early cinematic innovator,...
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Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card: November 23, 2011
This week, Fat Guy Kevin Carr gets his grading done early because school is off for the rest of the week. With three family movies opening in theaters for the Thanksgiving weekend, Kevin tries to keep...
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Movie News After Dark: Obama Gets Ghostbusters 3 Scoop, Star Trek Tech in...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a silly little thing. Just a thing that some people read. Nothing special, really, just the world’s foremost late-night independent movie news and editorial...
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Box Office: ‘Twilight’ Feasts on Thanksgiving Audiences
Out of all the family movies that were marketed towards reuniting families across America this weekend, and it’s the Twilight movie that came out on top once again. I can’t say I’m shocked, though....
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Culture Warrior: Scorsese’s ‘Hugo’ and the Death of Celluloid
The self-reflexive practices of the meta-film take various forms. On the one hand, there’s the legacy of cinephilic directors from Brian De Palma to P. T. Anderson to Robert Rodriguez who shout out to...
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Movie News After Dark: Justified, Scorsese’s Hugo, Batsuit Nipples, J.J....
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly movie news column that doesn’t mess around. If it tells you to leave town or else it will shoot you on the spot, then you’d better believe that it will...
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Awards Season Rages On: National Board of Review Picks ‘Hugo’ and Scorsese
It is day four of awards season, and already some names are growing wearyingly familiar, and even the surprises don’t quite pop like they used to. On Monday evening, the Gothams announced their annual...
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The Reject Report Knows No Shame
It’s a rare weekend we’re looking at here. Coming off the big Thanksgiving weekend, we have no new movies opening in wide release. The only new films coming out are in limited, and only one of those is...
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Box Office: The ‘Twilight’ Triple Threat Has Occurred
And you all slept through it, didn’t you? It’s okay. I mean, it’s not THAT big of a surprise, really. We knew the latest Twilight outing would be strong competition for anyone, even those lovable...
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Aural Fixation: The Past vs. The Present – ‘Hugo’ and the Landscape of Modern...
This year has brought us back to classic filmmaking from the silent film era with The Artist to the fantasy adventure Hugo, which recalled classic film moments (as The Film Stage rounded up here). The...
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Year In Review: The Top 11 Trends, Topics, and Debates of 2011
Usually I’m quite cynical about end-of-year lists, as they demand a forced encapsulation of an arbitrary block of time that is not yet over into something simplified. I typically find end-of-year lists...
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Austin Film Critics Laud ‘Hugo,’‘Drive,’‘Attack the Block’ and Jessica...
Of all the various critics groups around the country, the one you should care most about is the Austin Film Critics Association. Why? Well, there’s two very solid and in no way biased reasons that I...
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The Best Films of 2011: The Staff Picks
As you may have noticed, this final week of 2011 has been almost completely taken over by our third annual Year in Review. It was born in 2009 out of our love for lists and your thirst for reading,...
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The Writers Guild of America Announces the Nominees For Best Screenplays of...
The Writers Guild of America has released the nominees for their Writer’s Guild Awards today, and while there’s certainly some room for quibbling as far as their choices go, the screenplays they’ve...
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Oh, What a Film: ‘Hugo’ Scribe John Logan to Next Adapt ‘Jersey Boys’
It’s not often that word of a large-scale adaptation of an existing theatrical property thrills me to my absolute core, but I am willing to forget all the weird Les Miserables Starring Country Pop...
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