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7Sep/100

Trailer Talk: This Week In Movies – ‘Resident Evil Afterlife,’ ‘The Virginity Hit,’ & More

Resident Evil Afterlife
Over the Labor Day weekend, I caught Robert Rodriguez’s action epic “Machete,” which is bullet riddled, eye candy, not intended for the faint of heart. Originally a fake movie trailer in the 2007 ...

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7Sep/100

Phil Collins Proud Of Daughter Who Acts With Naked, Young Stallions

Phil Collins
Phil Collins is proud his daughter Lily has landed a role opposite "Twilight" hunk Taylor Lautner in the forthcoming thriller "Abduction." He explained, "Her success is incredible. Soon, she'll b...

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7Sep/100

Justin Long Compares His Private Parts To The Prophet Muhammad

Justin Long
Justin Long jokes about the reasons behind why his full-frontal nude scene in new film "Going The Distance" was cut. He explained, "Apparently my penis bears too striking a resemblance to the Prop...

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7Sep/100

Taylor Lautner settles suit over RV for movie set – Morning Times

A lawyer for Taylor Lautner says the "Twilight ... Attorney Robert Barta said Friday that McMahon RV of Irvine, Calif. will pay $40,000 to Lautner, who will donate it to Lollipop Theater Network, a children's charity.

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7Sep/100

Deathly Hallows’ will shake people up: Daniel Radcliffe – New Kerala

London, Sep 7 : Daniel Radcliffe has said that "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" will "shake some people up". ... old actor, who recently finished filming the final two movies of the wizard film franchise ...

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6Sep/100

James Cameron To Film Amazon River Dam Documentary – In 3D

James Cameron
James Cameron is returning to Brazil to film a 3D movie highlighting the plight of the indigenous people who will be uprooted by the construction of a dam on the Amazon river. The director has bee...

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6Sep/100

100% Last Train Home

Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year’s holiday. This mass exodus is the world’s largest human migration—an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically...

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6Sep/100

100% Prince of Broadway

PRINCE OF BROADWAY is the story of Lucky and Levon, two men whose lives converge in the underbelly of New York's wholesale fashion district. Lucky, an illegal immigrant from Ghana, makes ends meet by soliciting shoppers on the street with knock-off...

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6Sep/100

‘Twilight’ actor settles lawsuit over RV – St. Cloud Times

LOS ANGELES — A lawyer for Taylor Lautner says the ... Robert Barta said Friday that McMahon RV of Irvine, Calif. will pay $40,000 to Lautner, who will donate it to Lollipop Theater Network, a children's charity.

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6Sep/100

In this corner, ‘Legendary’ actor and wrestler Cena – Boston Herald

John Cena has square-jawed leading-man looks and a new movie to go with them, but the nine-time WWE champion swears he won’t ditch the ring for the movies. “Wrestling always has been and always will be ...

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5Sep/100

Taylor Lautner settles suit over RV for movie set – Wyoming Tribune-Eagle

A lawyer for Taylor Lautner says the "Twilight ... Attorney Robert Barta said Friday that McMahon RV of Irvine, Calif. will pay $40,000 to Lautner, who will donate it to Lollipop Theater Network, a children's charity.

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5Sep/100

Fall movie season to offer some of Hollywood’s finest, funniest – St. Petersburg Times

Ben Affleck announced himself as a promising filmmaker with 2007's Gone Baby Gone . His followup covers the same Boston mean streets, with a bank robber (Affleck) falling for a kidnapped teller (Rebecca Hall). Oscar ...

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5Sep/100

Sylvester Stallone Wants Bruce Willis As Bad Guy In ‘Expendables’ Sequel

Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Stallone is trying to persuade his pal Bruce Willis to play a supervillain in The Expendables sequel.

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5Sep/100

Check Out ‘Stardust’ On DVD & Blu-ray Sept. 7

Stardust
"Stardust" is an epic adventure starring Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro. In hopes of wooing a beautiful girl (Sienna Miller), Tristan (Charlie Cox) promises to bring her a fal...

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5Sep/100

Mila Kunis Frolics On The Beach

Mila Kunis
Mila Kunis was barefoot and beautiful while filming beach scenes with Justin Timberlake on the set of "Friends with Benefits" in Malibu, Calif., on Tuesday. The actress frolicked in the sand in sk...

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5Sep/100

‘Transformers 3′ Extra Undergoes Brain Surgery

Transformers 2
An extra injured on the set of the new Transformers movie is in a stable condition in the hospital after undergoing brain surgery. Gabriella Cedillo, 24, was airlifted to a hospital in Indiana in...

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4Sep/100

John Woo Honored In Venice

John Woo
Moviemaker John Woo has picked up his second major film honor of the summer - the director was awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival in Italy on Friday. Woo, ...

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4Sep/100

‘Twilight’ actor Taylor Lautner settles suit with Calif. dealership over late … – Chicago Tribune

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A lawyer for Taylor Lautner says ... Attorney Robert Barta said Friday that McMahon RV of Irvine, Calif. will pay $40,000 to Lautner, who will donate it to Lollipop Theater Network, a children's ...

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4Sep/100

George Clooney: Movie Star – Screenrant.com

Screen Rant looks at the film career of actor George Clooney following the release of The American . There are movie stars and then there is George Clooney. The man is the epitome of old style charm and charisma and ...

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4Sep/100

We are What We are Aka Somos Lo Que Hay

Right up until the last minute I was undecided about seeing We Are What We Are at this year’s Frightfest, at the eleventh hour I chose to take the plunge and see the movie. The story follows a Mexican family who’s breadwinner and provider of food drops dead one day in the shopping mall. Unlike many other families the immediate concern is not with grief, but who will replace the father as head of the family; because this family are desperate for food and for cannibals this is not an easy task.

 

Initially the film started very well, the build up was good and the minimal text (the film was subtitled for English speaking audiences) helped you get into the movie a little more. The trouble being was that after an understandably slow start, it continued to drag and drag, then for some unknown reason from being an incredibly serious movie it turned into some sort of black comedy spoof.

The biggest problem with the movie for me was the way so many things did not add up. The two boys the story partially surrounds are easily identified by a police officer on foot, after being simply told that two boys driving a white car had attacked a young gay man. The story is set in a city not a town or village, so to just randomly pick two boys is just daft. Another police officer tracks the boys back to their house, despite the fact that the boys are yet to return home, in all the thousands of houses they are clearly in the section of town they live in, how likely is it that a policeman looking for two boys in a car would miraculously stumble across there home? The final insult to intelligence comes when having avoided both these police officers, the two boys return home to suddenly have police on their tail, despite the fact that neither police officer (the one in the house or the one on the street) had a radio to communicate with other officers. It seemed like write Jorge Michel Grau, knew what needed to be told, but did not know how to get from A to B properly.

 

The character development is fine; the wimp at the start of the day becomes the strongest character by the end. The strongest character becomes much weaker by the end. So over the course of the day, you see all these transformations occurring. The trouble being is that there is far too much focus on transformation, than the underlying issues, rather than the one that brings people to see the movie. You think cannibals, and if you’re a horror movie fan you immediately want to see it. What you get however is far from the promise; do not expect a high body count, or the family to be tucking into numerous meals. Yes they are cannibals; however that’s where the story ends, its like me saying I’m English; not quite enough to inspire you to watch a film about me. For the cannibalism you’ll see, you may as well just say they are Spanish and be done with it. There is none of that Spanish wit or brutality come to that; this is very much like an art house movie without the art.

 

Its not a bad movie, it just does not pick up to become above the ordinary, it’s a family drama about being top dog, and what you have to do to provide for your family. It has sadness, it had drama, it has some moral lessons, but horror is so thin on the ground here that you might confuse yourself and think that all your watching is a soap opera.

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