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Why Marcus Nispel Should Direct Every Horror Remake

by Bill Gibron

[13.Feb.09] :. Do few genre filmmakers “get it” that when a true artisan comes along, their presence can be initially perplexing - especially when he or she is being asked to reinvent a classic of...

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Ruining It for Everyone

by Bill Gibron

[7.Jul.08] :. Sometimes, you have to wonder what goes on in a marketer’s head. Let’s say you have a good movie - granted, a niche genre effort, but a good film none the less. Now, you know that most...

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20 Questions Feature

Jena Malone

by PopMatters Staff

[7.Apr.08] :. In-between The Ruins (just opened in US theatres) and The Go-Getter, opening in June, Jena paused while on tour to address PopMatters' 20 Questions.

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Scott Smith’s novel ‘The Ruins’ comes to the big screen

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[4.Apr.08] :. Scott Smith hadn’t even finished writing “The Ruins” - and Stephen King had not yet hailed it as “the best horror novel of the new century” - when Hollywood studios...

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The Ruins

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Apr.08] :. The Ruins achieves something like a metaphor, as the tourists' fears infect their very beings.

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Iraq War-themed films can’t find an audience

by Soren Andersen [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[2.Jan.08] :. What if they made a war movie and nobody came to see it? No biggie. Individual films fail all the time for all kinds of reasons. Filmmaking is a crapshoot. Always has been. Always will be. The...

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A new script for Hollywood war movies

by Carrie Rickey [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[11.Oct.07] :. Anti-war demonstrators storm the Pentagon in the movie “Across the Universe.” A career soldier protests the Iraq conflict in “In the Valley of Elah.” The tactics of an elite...

 

Hollywood goes to war: Mainstream movies focus on Iraq, terrorism

by Cary Darling [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[1.Oct.07] :. Writer Matthew Michael Carnahan makes a living pounding out movie scripts, where flights of fantasy and retreats from reality are the daily stock in trade. But a couple of autumns back, while...

 

Tight-lipped Tommy Lee Jones on ‘In the Valley of Elah’

by Howard Gensler [Philadelphia Daily News (MCT)]

[21.Sep.07] :. TORONTO—Oscar-winning actor Tommy Lee Jones, likely to be nominated again for one or both of his fall movies, “In the Valley of Elah” (opening Friday) and “No Country for Old...

 

In the Valley of Elah

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Sep.07] :. Paul Haggis' film posits Hank as an old-school man of honor, both punished and revered for his traditional "values."

 

Hostage (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Jun.05] :. More disturbingly, Hostage is about the failure of certainty.

 

Hostage (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Mar.05] :. The crisis begins with a clash between rich people and a trio of conventionally coded 'delinquents'.

 

Stateside (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.May.04] :. Dori Lawrence (Rachael Leigh Cook) is a multi-threat performer, her career reeling between movies and rock 'n' roll, sometime in the 1980s.

 

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Oct.03] :. One by one, the kids wander inside the Terrible Place, and all but one can't escape.

 

The Deep End (2001)

by Susan Brown

'The Deep End' might be accurately described as 'The Tilda Swinton Show', as her portrayal of the desperate, self-sacrificing mother Margaret Hall is the center of the film.

 

The Deep End (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

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