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Sacha Baron Cohen says FBI started following him on 'Borat'
Sacha Baron Cohen’s character Borat had a knack for producing hilarious reactions from strangers thanks to his outrageous behavior, but Cohen likely didn’t expect the reaction he received from the FBI.
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Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford reunite for fifth 'Indiana Jones'
Indiana Jones is back, with Harrison Ford still wearing the famed fedora. Ford and director Steven Spielberg will reunite for a fifth Indiana Jones film due out July 19, 2019, Walt Disney studios announced Tuesday. “Indiana Jones is one of the greatest heroes in cinematic history, and we can’t wait to bring him back to the screen in 2019,” said Alan Horn, chairman of Walt Disney Studios, in a statement. “We couldn’t be more excited to embark on this adventure with Harrison and Steven.”
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10 Years Later, 'V for Vendetta' Remains Tremendously Influential to Blockbuster Cinema
Memes, muck-racking amateur YouTubers, the hacker collective Anonymous, Occupy, and even Wikileaks’ Julian Assange have made the so-called V mask a persistent cultural symbol of rebellion against autocratic authority. It keeps not only the memory of Alan Moore’s second most beloved graphic novel, but reflects the lasting impact of the Wachowskis’feature film that brought the book’s universe to the masses. This week, the film turns ten, which offers an opportunity to appreciate the ways in...
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Freep Film Fest: Birds deliver warning in 'The Messenger'
Documentary explores the uncertain fate of migratory songbirds in the face of development and climate change
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Douglas Wilmer Dies: Stage & Screen Actor Long Associated With Sherlock Holmes Was 96
Stage and screen actor Douglas Wilmer, best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes in the 1960s BBC series, died today at Ipswich Hospital in Suffolk, England following a short illness. He was 96. The Sherlock Holmes society made the news public. Born in London in 1920, Wilmer, trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, served in Africa during World War II prior to making his stage debut in 1945. His first major...
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The Forgotten Female Action Stars of the 1910s
Even before women won the right to vote, a slew of films from the early-20th century featured heroines who chased danger and adventure.
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Three Dimensional Paper Art by Rubén Martínez
Three dimensional paper art inspired by films such as Psycho, The Birds, Vertigo, The Exorcist, and The Shining by Spanish designer Rubén Martínez.
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PADRE
Day by day, the daughter of an elder military commander takes care of her bedridden father. The dictatorship has come to an end in Argentina, but not in this woman’s life.
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Original 'Ghostbusters' Heads Back to Theaters
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CIA tip-off led to Mandela arrest: report
A tip from a CIA spy to authorities in apartheid-era South Africa led to Nelson Mandela's 1962 arrest, beginning the leader's 27 years behind bars, an article in the Sunday Times reported. The newspaper cited comments reportedly made by Donald Rickard, a former US vice-consul in Durban and CIA operative, to British film director John Irvin.
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Movie written by algorithm turns out to be hilarious and intense
Ars is excited to be hosting this online debut of Sunspring, a short science fiction film that's not entirely what it seems. It's about three people living in a weird future, possibly on a space station, probably in a love triangle. You know it's the future because H (played with neurotic gravity by Silicon Valley's Thomas Middleditch) is wearing a shiny gold jacket, H2 (Elisabeth Gray) is playing with computers, and C (Humphrey Ker) announces that he has to "go to the skull" before sticking his face into a bunch of green lights. It sounds like your typical sci-fi B-movie, complete with an incoherent plot.
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Young people are wrongly targeting their anger against the older generation
Good news: two new comedies hit British cinemas this week. Bad news: they’re both bleak as hell. Especially unexpected in this respect is Nine Lives. It sounded so fluffy: Kevin Spacey’s millionaire executive learns to be a better dad after he’s trapped in the body of a cat by Christopher Walken’s magical pet shop owner. But aside from the odd moment of litter-tray high jinks, this is a family film fixated on divorce, alcoholism, suicide, cyber-bullying, “do not resuscitate” directives and a hostile corporate takeover.
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Never say never again: Daniel Craig ‘offered $150m for two more Bonds’
A new day generally brings a fresh frontrunner to inherit 007’s tuxedo, with Victoria star Tom Hughes the most recent to join the likes of Idris Elba, Tom Hiddleston and Aidan Turner. But according to a source reported by Radar, the most likely candidate to star as James Bond is Daniel Craig. Craig, 48, has already starred in four films, and despite a rumoured $65m (£48.66m) payday for 2015’s Spectre, was apparently sceptical about returning for more instalments.
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Oscar Bait? Twelve Films set to make a Splash at Toronto
The Oscars may be more than five months away, but this year's hopefuls are already jostling for position.
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The Unlikely Story of How Nitrate Film Endures
The George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York is gearing up for a festival that celebrates nitrate film, which once caused some major fires in movie theaters.
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Children of Men Might Be the Most Relevant Film of 2016
On Christmas day, 2006, a curious twist on the Nativity debuted in a handful of movie theaters. Directed and co-written by Mexican auteur Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men told the story of (decade-old spoiler alert) a near-future dystopia in which women are inexplicably unable to have babies — a state of affairs upended by the advent of a miraculous pregnancy. The film is set in the deteriorating cities and countryside of southeastern England — vividly rendered with alarming realism and minimal use of sci-fi futurism...
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Dark Passages: The Devil in the Details
To make the performance of a tedious, exacting, time-consuming task riveting to watch, it is only necessary for the activity to be illegal… By Imogen Sara Smith.
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The Director of ‘District 9’ Is Releasing Wild Sci-Fi Films on Steam
Thousands of decaying bodies adorn a near-future Eiffel Tower, twisted and mangled amongst its ironwork the way creeping ivy would blend with a trellis. A handful of the bodies dangle loosely, strung up by some unknown material. Some drip down to the ground. Are they already dead, or dying?
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The Exorcist Found a New Way to Show Us an Exorcism
Here we are. You can’t have a show called The Exorcist without an Exorcism. Seven episodes into the second season, we have our main one. Back at New York Comic Con, I heard the Exorcist showrunners say the danger of having a show about demonic possession and exorcism is that it can easily become a show about men chanting. That this season, they wanted to avoid that. Judging by last night’s episode, they’re succeeding.
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Community group rents out movie theater for 'Black Panther' premiere
Save Our Streets will roll out the red carpet for the premiere of the film "Black Panther" on Feb. 16. The event will take place at Bow Tie Cinemas on State Street with a 220-seat theater being rented out for the event, according to Save our Streets co-founder William Rivas. He said people even plan on arriving in limos before strolling on the red carpet on their way into the theater.
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