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Friday Harvest: The Road, Avatar, and more!Happy Friday Harvest, a weekly round-up of the best pictures, posters, and videos that have become available for viewing/download on Rotten Tomatoes. Each section features the favorite or most interesting item we've added for the week, along with several other new highlights. Enjoy! More weirdo horror from Willem Dafoe! He follows Antichrist with My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?, based on the true story of a San Diego man who kills his mother with a saber. It's being helmed by Werner Herzog, who describes My Son as "a horror film without the blood, chainsaws and gore, but with a strange, anonymous fear." |
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The Best Fake Films Within FilmsAMC's filmcritic.com takes a look at the 14 best "fake films within films" -- from "Singin' in the Rain" to "Grindhouse" and beyond. |
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First Look At Narnia's Voyage of the Dawn Treader20th Century Fox have released a series of brand new images from the forthcoming third film the C.S. Lewis series. |
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Ban Them All! 10 Infamously Controversial MoviesDeath, despair and genital mutilation: only a great Dane could fuse all three into one brilliantly bleak, guaranteed nausea-inducing piece of cinema... which seems to blame all the evil in the world on women, though Lars von Trier begs to differ. Antichrist is definitely out there, but shock and awe in cinema are hardly anything new. Think back to Luis Buñuel's queasy, eyeball-slicing Un Chien Andalou (1929) -- arguably the birth of the movie 'shocker' -- Tod Browning's grotesque Freaks (1933), or any number of early films whose now-tame titilations terrified the censors of the time. Since then, movies have been an ongoing magnet for controversy, from Deep Throat (1972) to The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) to Kids (1995), while some -- such as Cannibal Holocaust (1980) -- resulted in the trial of their directors before the courts. Here, then, are 10 of the most controversial.... |
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Hollywood Reporter Ranks 10 Best Films 2000-09The Hollywood Reporter's Kirk Honeycutt runs down his Top 10 films of 2000-2009. |
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Avatar Production Designer Discusses the FilmProduction designer Rick Carter talks to the LA Times about working on James Cameron's forthcoming sci-fi epic. |
Los Angeles Times |
Ben Kingsley: The Rise of Taj27 years after his Oscar-winning performance in 'Gandhi', Ben Kingsley will return to India to portray the man who built the Taj Mahal. |
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Swiss Authorities Won't Oppose Polanski's BailThe filmmaker will be allowed to remain under house arrest in his Swiss chalet while authorties decide whether to extradite him to the U.S. |
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The Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner in Thor?The actor hints to 'Empire' magazine that he may be playing Hawkeye in 'Thor' and 'The Avengers'. |
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5 Facts About The Twilight Saga: EclipseThe Twilight Saga: New Moon has been in cinemas for almost a week. So, depending on your feelings towards sparkly vampires and extremely buff werewolves, you will either have seen it three times already (ZOMG RPattz!) or avoided it altogether. Either way, the fandemonium has subsided enough for us to look to the future. It's just seven months until Eclipse, the third instalment of Stephanie Meyer's popular book series, hits the big screen. RT caught up with the cast in LA's Four Seasons hotel during their manic New Moon press tour to get the latest on the eagerly anticipated film. We learned that Robert Pattinson hates pranks, Nikki Reed loves werewolves and got the strongest indication yet that there may well be a fifth film. Read on to find out more... |
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First Look (Sort Of) at New Nightmare's FreddySure, it's only a toy, but if you're itching to get an idea of what Jackie Earle Haley will look like after Freddy Krueger gets his new face in "A Nightmare on Elm Street," Shock Till You Drop can help you out. |
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First Look at Shrek Forever AfterHe's big, he's green, and he's headed back to the screen. Courtesy of USA Today, here's your first look at images from -- and the synopsis for -- "Shrek Forever After." |
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Woody Harrelson Will Battle Zombies in 3-DReady for a "Zombieland" sequel? According to director Ruben Fleischer, you'll most likely see one soon...and it'll be in 3-D. |
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James McTeigue Talks Edgar Allan Poe, Superman, Ninja Assassin DVD, and MoreJames McTeigue's "Ninja Assassin" is losing the battle with critics, but don't feel too badly for him -- as he discusses in a new interview, he has plenty of other stuff going on. |
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This Is It's Lost 3-D Opportunities2009 might have been the year that 3-D finally came into its own at the movies, but for the companies that were slated to add a third dimension to Michael Jackson's "This Is It," it'll always represent some sadly missed opportunities. |
Variety |
Trailer Bulletin: Youth in RevoltAre you ready to forgive Michael Cera for his part in "Year One"? Let the healing process begin with the new trailer for "Youth in Revolt." |
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AMPAS Takes Movies Back 100 YearsIf you're in the Hollywood area on Monday or Tuesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has a unique celebration taking place at the Linwood Dunn Theater. |
Los Angeles Times |
Five Favorite Films With Zombieland Director Ruben FleischerFilmmaker Ruben Fleischer is having a very good 2009. The former music video director has seen his debut feature, Zombieland, open at number one at the US box office and take in nearly $75 million domestically, while earning an impressive 89% Fresh rating from critics -- not bad for a horror-comedy road movie revolving around the undead. With the film about to open in Australia, we got the chance to catch up with Ruben and ask him his five favorite films. And a fine list it is, too. |
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WB offers DVD to Blu-ray Trade-In ProgramThere's no denying that the Blu-ray format is vastly superior to DVD, but what if you've spent the last decade building up a substantial DVD library? Now that HD DVD is finally dead, you can safely embrace this new format, but do you really want to have to buy all of those movies again? |
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RT's Blu-ray Picks from WBEvery week (as part of our new Blu-ray HQ on Rotten Tomatoes) we're going to pick what we consider the most exciting releases for a particular studio. This week, we're looking at Warner Bros, and we're recommending these movies. |
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