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8 Films To See In May

May marks the start of the summer blockbuster season. Unfortunately, it may be quite a weak one. Many early reviews and screening reports hint that we may need to wait a month or two to get our first great blockbuster. ...
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[SXSW Review] Life 2.0

In his first feature-length documentary, director Jason Spingarn-Koff explores the growing virtual community of Second Life in Life 2.0. This virtual online world is accessed daily by hundreds of thousands of users from around the world, where they use avatars to assume alternate personas. Assuming his own avatar, Spingarn-Koff immerses himself in this alternate landscape, and reveals to us how quickly the lines between reality and virtual reality can be blurred....
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[First Look] 2 Minute ‘Predators’ Sneak Peek

20th Century Fox has released a behind-the-scenes video online after debuting footage at this year's SXSW festival earlier this week. Robert Rodriguez (Sin City) is producing the film with Nimród Antal (Armored) directing...
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Exploitation Doc Premieres at SXSW

The feature-length documentary American Grindhouse explores the hidden history of the American Exploitation Film. The movie digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.S. cinema and unearths the shameless and occasionally shocking origins of this popular entertainment....
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‘Leaves of Grass’ Gets Release Date

This long-awaited, Tim Blake Nelson-directed double dose of Edward Norton is finally on its way to theaters. The exact date? April 2nd. TFS Editor-in-Chief ...