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James Marsh To Exorcise Vatican

Director James Marsh, the man behind the Oscar-winning documentary Man on Wire, is set to direct The Vatican Tapes, to be produced by Lionsgate Films and Lakeshore Entertainment....
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Gyllenhaal To Source Code With Duncan Jones

That's Jake Gyllenhaal, the younger of the talented two, to star in Moon helmer Duncan Jones' next movie - which will not be Mute, unfortunately - but rather Source Code. Here's the plot of the film: "The project centers on a soldier who wakes up in the body of a commuter and must solve the mystery of a train explosion." [THR]....
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[Review] Gentleman Broncos

Fox Searchlight | USA | 90 min. Gentlemen Broncos comes from Jared Hess and it involves his usual shtick, for better and mostly worse. The film is uneven...
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[Merrill’s Review] The Box

I am still living in the enjoyable world of Donnie Darko when it comes to writer/director Richard Kelly. But after seeing his latest film, The Box, the film adaptation to Richard Matheson's short story Button, Button, which Kelly adapted himself, I am beginning to fear that he’s never going to be able to achieve that level of filmmaking again. While The Box does deliver on the classic confusion aspect that the young director is so well known for, and does look pretty good doing it, much of the film is left unanswered and becomes intolerable....
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127 Hours To Have Hour Of No Dialogue

It feels almost wrong to write words in reporting this news, because the news itself proclaims its wordlessness. Well, so be it. /Film reports that Danny Boyle's intends to shoot the first hour of his new project, 127 Hours, based on the incredible true story of Aron Ralston, who had to amputate an arm to survive a hiking accident, with no dialogue....
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[Review] The Men Who Stare At Goats

They do stare at goats, in case you're wondering. But, like most scenes in this strangely square, oddly disengaging film about one of the more interesting military tales to be told in some time, the "goat" scene comes and goes and leaves the viewer cold, like after an emotionless night of sex. This is what the whole film feels like - a good, fun time that will be an engaging story to tell to your friends, but you'll end up feeling there wasn't much to be gained from the experience as a whole....
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[Review] The Fourth Kind

Universal Pictures | USA | 98 min. Note: This review does contain spoilers. Director Olatunde Osunsanmi so desperately attempts  to convince the audie...