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3-Hour ‘Midsommar' Director's Cut Screened in NYC
Aug 19, 2019

This year’s 12th edition of the Scary Movies festival at Film at Lincoln Center premiered Ari Aster’s extended version of “Midsommar” this past Saturday.

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Janeane Garofalo: ‘Leave Louis C.K. Alone,’ His Family Has ‘Paid Heavily’ Already

January 11, 2019 Jordan Ruimy

Comedian Janeane Garofalo defended Louis C.K. earlier today on an episode of the podcast “Poptarts,” hosted by Emily Rems and Callie Watts [via Vulture]. 

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In NEWS Tags Louis CK, Janeane Garofolo
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‘Coming to America 2’ Set to Shoot This Spring; Craig Brewer Directing.

January 11, 2019 Jordan Ruimy

Deadline has the exclusive that Paramount Pictures has hired "Hustle and Flow" director Craig Brewer to direct "Coming To America 2", the sequel to the 1988 comedy starring Eddie Murphy.

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In NEWS Tags Coming to America, Craig Brewer, Eddie Murphy
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M. Night Shyamalan Defends “The Happening”: “I think it’s a consistent kind of farce humor. You know, like ‘The Blob.’”

January 11, 2019 Jordan Ruimy

M. Night Shyamalan claims that he's come to peace with Mark Wahlberg's continuous criticism and bashing of his 2008 Razzie opus "The Happening." In it, Wahlberg played a high school teacher that tries to protect his family amidst an unknown environmental threat forcing people to commit suicide. Critics hated it (18% on Rotten Tomatoes), and audiences hated it as well (a 5.0 rating on IMDb).

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In NEWS Tags Awards, M Night Shyamalan, Mark Wahlberg
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Ethan Hawke: There already is a Popular Film Oscar, it’s called the box office.

January 11, 2019 Jordan Ruimy

The Academy's decision to include the peculiarly titled “Outsanding Popular Film” category was a misbegotten one—so much so, that they ended up, not too soon after, axing the idea.

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In NEWS Tags Oscars, Ethan Hawke
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Netflix Can Now Track Users Sharing Accounts

January 10, 2019 Jordan Ruimy
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Be wary of sharing your Netflix password to a friend or family member. 

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David Fincher’s ‘World War Z II’ Filming In Late March, With Working Title ‘Maximillian’

January 10, 2019 Jordan Ruimy

David Fincher's "World War Z II" will start shooting this June, that's what its producerJeremy Kleiner and Dede Gardner announced earlier today. However, a new listing fromProduction Weekly claims filming will begin even earlier sometime in late March.

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In NEWS Tags David Fincher, World War Z
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Without a host, Oscars producers want Marvel’s sprawling Avengers cast to share emcee duties

January 10, 2019 Jordan Ruimy
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Consider me not surprised by this blatant ratings-grab that the Academy are trying to pull off for the upcoming 91st Academy Awards.

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In NEWS Tags Oscars, Avengers
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‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ Trailer: Jake Gyllenhaal Reunites With ‘Nightcrawler’ Director for Arthouse Horror

January 10, 2019 Jordan Ruimy

Consider me intrigued by Dan Gilroy's "Velvet Buzzsaw," by far, my most anticipated film of this year's upcoming Sundance Film Festival. This is quite clearly a return to the societal underground malaise that Gilroy tackled with Jake Gyllenhaal in "Nightcrawler."

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In NEWS Tags Jake Gyllenhaal, Velvet Buzzsaw, Trailers
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Martin Scorsese To Release A New Bob Dylan Doc On Netflix Later This Year

January 10, 2019 Jordan Ruimy

Martin Scorsese will be directing another Bob Dylan documentary and he's going the Netflixagain route for its release.

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In NEWS Tags Bob Dylan, Biopic
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Is A Rival Studio Behind the “Green Book” Smear Campaign?

January 10, 2019 Jordan Ruimy

First thing's first, whatever backlash "Green Book" has gotten must be owned up by the culprits at hand; Viggo Mortensen, Peter Farrely,  Nick Vallelonga and company all have to, if they haven’t already, admit to their past mistakes. This isn’t a think-piece where I will make the case for their innocence; No, whatever sins that may have been dug up from their pasts need to be owned up to by the accused. However…there comes a point in time when someone needs to look at the events that have transpired against this little-film-that-could and wonder, gee, are Harvey Weinstein’s smear campaigning tactics being used again in 2018 but, only this time,  by other players that have learned from the Weinstein 101 book of Oscar-playing? I think they have, brilliantly might I add.

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‘Green Book’ Director Peter Farrelly Sorry for Flashing Penis in the Past: ‘I Was an Idiot’

January 10, 2019 Jordan Ruimy
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“True. I was an idiot,” director Peter Farrelly said in a statement. “I did this decades ago and I thought I was being funny and the truth is I’m embarrassed and it makes me cringe now. I’m deeply sorry."

The Cut's Anna Silman, knowing full well that Oscar momentum was now with "Green Book," had posted a hit piece about Farrelly today.

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In NEWS Tags Green Book, Peter Farelly, #MeToo
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Paul Schrader Admits He Torrented His Unreleased Director’s Cut Of “Dying Of The Light”

January 10, 2019 Jordan Ruimy
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In September of 2014, Paul Schrader directed “Dying of the Light,” a grim thriller starring Nicolas Cage as a CIA agent, obsessing over catching terrorists in the midst of suffering from terminal brain disease. The movie’s producers didn't want the artsy spy thriller that Schrader delivered to them, so they created their own cut and released it in theaters without his consent. This was met with severe pushback by not only Schrader but Cage as well, they both openly urged audiences not to watch the movie. This prompted Schrader to secretly re-edit “Dying of the Light” into an entirely new movie, attempting to splatter his original vision on-screen.

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In NEWS Tags Paul Schrader, Dying of the Light
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“Glass” – Critics are not loving M. Night Shyamalan’s latest

January 10, 2019 Jordan Ruimy

Review to come …

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The Oscars Reportedly Happening Without A Host

January 9, 2019 Jordan Ruimy

Variety's Matt Donnelly is reporting that the Academy heads have given up on trying to find an Oscar host. Their attempt to get back Kevin Hart was a final hail-mary, which failed, plus there's the problem that every candidate they seem to be reaching out to are, wisely, declining, their invite to emcee the 91st annual edition of the event. And so the 2019 Oscars will be hostless, at least that's what Donnelly is saying.

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Todd Haynes’ New Movie Set to Start Shoot Next Week; Casts Anne Hathaway, Mark Ruffalo and Tim Robbins

January 9, 2019 Jordan Ruimy

Todd Haynes is a filmmaker that I have grown to truly love over the years. His list of films is staggeringly impressive ("Safe," "Far From Heaven," "Carol") but watching his last film, 2017's "Wonderstruck," was an endurance test. In fact, I kept asking myself "is this really a movie directed by Todd Haynes?" None of the director's visual panache or unsentimentalit worth were on display.

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DGA Criticized for Women Director Shut Out

January 9, 2019 Jordan Ruimy

Here's an undisputed fact: The studio and independent system is white-male dominated, all of this hoopla that a bunch of black and female filmmakers deserve their fair share of 2018 awards is quite simply overreaching and a form of virtue signaling on the part of film critics. The odds are heavily stacked for white male directors making the best films of the year.

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In NEWS Tags DGA, Directors, Gender Bias
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Exorcist Director William Friedkin Says Sequel Was “The Worst Piece of Sh— I’ve Ever Seen. It’s A F—ing Disgrace”

January 9, 2019 Jordan Ruimy

One of the great unsung American directors is no doubt William Friedkin ("The French Connection," "The Exorcist," "Sorcerer," "To Live and Die in L.A"). Friedkin had a mini comeback of sorts with 2006's "Bug," but, especially, 2011's masterful "Killer Joe," two shockers that pushed the boundaries of tension in American cinema. I was hoping that set of films could be a rejuvenation of sorts for the 82-year-old director but, alas, it never came. The fact that both those movies were all but ignored upon release has made it rather difficult for him to find the sufficient funding to make another cinematic statement.

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In NEWS Tags The Exorcist
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“Star Trek 4” Shelved by Paramount

January 9, 2019 Jordan Ruimy

Director S.J. Clarkson's "Star Trek 4" has been shelved, at least that's what Deadline is reporting in their annual assessment of upcoming Paramount projects for 2019:

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Actress Melissa Joan Hart Admits Warned Her Son About Non-Christians: “We don’t know if these people are good people.”

January 9, 2019 Jordan Ruimy

Melissa Joan Hart recently told her 6-year-old son to be wary of people who don't believe in Jesus, especially Jews. The former "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" star was speaking about her Christian-led life on a new episode of the podcast "Journeys of Faith with Paula Faris." In the episode she explains how when the moment came for her son to be switched from a Christian preschool to a traditional school she gave him a warning, "We don't know if these people are good people. We don't know if they believe in Jesus," she said, adding "and he really took the Jesus part to heart." Hart's son eventually became friends with a Jewish boy, which prompted the normal curiosities and questions any boy his age would likely have, which included him asking mom "If you're Jewish, how do you get to heaven?" 

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In NEWS Tags Melissa Joan Hart, Anti-Semitism
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With “Green Book” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” winning, the Golden Globes sent a message to the moral crusaders on Sunday Night

January 9, 2019 Jordan Ruimy

You could hear the uproar that was to come. Even if you weren't logged into a social media platform, you just knew that what the Hollywood Foreign Press Association decided to do yesterday was give a big middle finger to the outrage machine being generated online on a daily basis. What the HFPA's final decision on Sunday felt like was a towering statement that made you want to holler the kitschy Twisted Sister song: "We're not going to take it anymore." 

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In NEWS Tags Green Book, Bohemian Rhapsody, Golden Globes, Awards, Politics
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