Author: Scott Beggs
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SNL Writer Takes Will Ferrell to El ‘Casa de Mi Padre’
It was the strangest news of last week. Will Ferrell was announcing his involvement in a Spanish language comedy that would be subtitled in English.…
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‘Skyline’ Teaser Rips You Out of Your Seat, Into the Sky
The variable that no one had heard of at Comic-Con was Skyline. Its footage and panel was a bit bland, but the special effects are the…
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‘American History X’ Director Gets Massive Cast for ‘Detached’
In what sounds a bit like Chalk meets Dangerous Minds meets Half Nelson, newcomer Carl Lund’s script for Detached has an absurd amount of acting…
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Sequel Plans Prove Team Stallone Isn’t That Expendable
It’s not a done deal yet. The ball has begun rolling on a sequel to The Expendables, and the box office will determine whether it…
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First Pic of ‘Sucky Teen Romance’ Needs a Blood Bib
Having seen both of Emily Hagins’s films – Pathogen and The Retelling – I can firmly say that while there is a spark of potential…
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Stanley Kubrick’s Lost Holocaust Film
One of more interesting aspects of the difficulty in getting a film off the ground is the battlefield of movies that never made it to…
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Reese Witherspoon Catches Fever to Play Peggy Lee
Reese Witherspoon must have finally realized that playing Golden Era singers is the key to Oscar glory. She’s personally hunted down the life rights from…
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The 36 Dramatic Situations: Misery (1990) and Falling Prey to Cruelty and Misfortune
This article is part of our 36 Dramatic Situations series. For 36 days straight, we’ll be exploring the famous 36 Dramatic Situations by examining a…
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Put Your Trust (and Fear) in Troy Nixey
The phrase “first time director” is a frightening thing of beauty. It represents potential and promise, but it also brings the same concerns that the…
