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Venice, 8/28.

post from GreenCine Daily on 28 August 2008 05:39:00 PM. © GreenCine Daily

"Cold Lunch - which opened Critics' Week at the Venice Film Festival - is the remarkable feature debut by Norway's Eva Sørhaug," writes Camillo de Marco. "Seemingly harsh (no director has ever dared inflict such a horrible end on...

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Waterworld Goes Epic with New Extended Cut

post from Row Three on 28 August 2008 05:26:45 PM. © Row Three

As if it wasn’t already long enough, the Kevin Coster disaster which was Waterworld is[...]

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Mark Wahlberg thinks MAX PAYNE is more Badass
than BATMAN

post from Rama's SCREEN on 28 August 2008 05:23:23 PM. © Rama's SCREEN

Ah yes! The endless tradition of trash talkin’.. you can feel it everywhere.. at your workplace, at the basketball court, even at the jungle gym or playground… if there’s one thing people are capable of no matter how modest they claim to be.. is the ability to talk smack about others.Recently Robert Downey Jr. said [...]

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Venice. Jerichow.

post from GreenCine Daily on 28 August 2008 05:21:00 PM. © GreenCine Daily

"German director Christian Petzold continues his exploration of ambling lives a bankrupt society in the Venice Competition entry Jerichow, a strong film that further consolidates his reputation as one of Northern Europe's finest auteurs," writes Boyd van Hoeij in Cineuropa....

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Just Add Alcohol: 'Mamma Mia! The Sing-Along
Version' Opens Friday [Mamma Mia]

post from Defamer on 28 August 2008 05:20:00 PM. © Defamer

Resisting the Lucas-esque compulsion to digitally swap Pierce Brosnan's open-throated squawk with a mellifluous gay lilt, Universal has instead touched on a decidedly more modest touch in tweaking its hit Mamma Mia! for a late-summer revival: Subtitles, and plenty of them. Behold Mamma Mia! The Sing-Along Version, announced earlier this month and finally making its way into karaoke-plexes near you this weekend. And the early reviews describe just the scenario that can make the ABBA musical a phenomenon all over again:

The sing-a-long edition makes it easier — and in fact encourages audience members — to sing along with the characters, and their fellow audience members, in effect contrasting those pre-show public service announcements scolding that silence is golden. The lyrics to the songs are displayed in bright, colorful letters at the bottom of the screen.

At a preview screening of the sing-a-long edition earlier this week — probably apropos to nothing, the same night Hillary Clinton gave her speech at the Democratic National Convention — a crowd of mostly women, many around age 50, seemed tentative at first to give it their all, but relaxed and seemed a little more comfortable with the concept toward the end of the screening. If they had sold shots of ouzo at the concession stand, that might have helped, quite frankly.

Hence the rumored, BYOB Mamma Mia! The Drink-Along Version planned for re-re-release some time this fall, with viewers receiving limited-edition shot glasses and instructions for concocting the deliciously fruity (if slightly bitter) new cocktail "The Brosnan." Or maybe that one's just better suited for DVD.

With this 'Mamma Mia,' you can sing, if you dare [NC Times]

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Bonjour From Montreal

post from Movies on 28 August 2008 05:09:00 PM. © Movies

From V.A. Musetto in Montreal: I arrived Wednesday evening at the 32nd edition of the World Film Festival, where 234 features, 13 medium-length films and 208 shorts are unreeling through Labor Day. They show on 17 screens in four locations...[...]

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Edgar Wright Talks Antman

post from Movie Moron on 28 August 2008 05:00:19 PM. © Movie Moron

First off, I must acknowledge my love for writer/director Edgar Wright. This guy is the real deal when it comes to young filmmakers. I knew it the instant I finished watching SHAUN OF THE DEAD but not only because it had easily juggled the elements of a zombie parody/homage, love story and buddy [...]

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Is This Bizarre Show Fox's Ace in the Fall 'Hole'
[No Whammies]

post from Defamer on 28 August 2008 05:00:00 PM. © Defamer

There was a time when the aesthetic of the Japanese game show was thought to be too bizarre to translate to America, but the times, they are a-changin'. Hot on the heels of the summer hit Wipeout comes Hole in the Wall, a Fox remake of the Japanese show in which contestants contort their bodies to pass through a strangely-shaped hole in an advancing wall, lest they be knocked backwards into a pool. Sound simple? It is — gleefully so, as you'll see from the clip (after the jump). We could have used some more J-pop songs or cute, lightning-spouting rat/dogs watching from the sidelines, but otherwise, we think we've found the crown jewel of the fall lineup. It's bold for Hole in the Wall to premiere on the anniversary of September 11, but if this show can't heal America's wounds, what can?

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Hole In The Wall [Fox]

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Don Cheadle's Co-Star Sparks Terrorism Concern

post from Starpulse Entertainment News Blog - Movie News on 28 August 2008 05:00:00 PM. © Starpulse Entertainment News Blog - Movie News

Don Cheadle's co-star in new movie Traitor sparked a homeland security emergency when he went online to find information about terrorist groups. Actor Hassam Ghancy opted to research his role in the new thriller - [...] Read more!

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SPARK Animation 08 [Vancouver]

It’s hard to believe that nearly a year has passed since I first encountered my local[...]

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