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RIP: Elmore Leonard

Legendary author Elmore Leonard has died, aged 87. As well as being an author, Leonard has penned many film scripts all the way back to the 50s - including Joe Kidd and Mr. Majestyck. He saw a bit of a revival in the 90s with movies like Out of Sight, Jackie Brown and Get Shorty being made from his material. Recently he's seen a lot of success as the creator of Justified's leading character - Raylan Givens.

Do yourself a favour and read a copy of Tishomingo Blues.

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20th Aug 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: Ikarie XB 1

Second Run DVD are delighted to announce that our next release will be JindÅ™ich Polák’s pioneering 1963 Czech sci-fi film IKARIE XB 1 on September 23.

JindÅ™ich Polák's much-imitated feature is one of the cornerstones of contemporary sci-fi cinema. Adapted from StanisÅ‚aw Lem's 1955 novel The Magellanic Cloud, and predating Gene Rodenberry's Star Trek and Kubrick's 2001, Ikarie's influence can be seen on both

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16th Aug 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: Her

Trailer up for Spike Jonze's new movie - Her.

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8th Aug 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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RIP: Dennis Fuckin' Farina

Michael Mann stalwart and all round mob boss or tough cop character actor Dennis Farina has died, aged 69.

Via BBC.

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23rd Jul 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: Cassette

Tape it! Cassette is a feature-length documentary about the history and continued use of the audiotape. Coming Early 2014. Directed by Zack Taylor, Created by Zack Taylor and Seth Smoot. cassettefilm.com

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12th Jul 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: Oldboy

Spike Lee's remake is looking a lot like the original...

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11th Jul 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

First Poster For Spike Lee's Oldboy

Josh Brolin is on octopus-eating duties in this upcoming remake.

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10th Jul 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Ad Nauseum: Calvin Klein vs David Fincher

New David Fincher ad, starring Rooney Mara. Shot by David Devlin for that Rumblefish vibe. Music by YYYs.

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9th Jul 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Reminder: A Field In England

Just in case you've missed @Film4's season of Ben @mr_wheatley films this week, here's a reminder that the premiere of A Field In England is Friday night, 10.45pm. Kill List is tonight (Thursday).

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4th Jul 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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RIP Jim Kelly

"Bullshit, Mr Han man!" The Enter The Dragon star died at  67

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3rd Jul 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

John Goodman Loses His Shit

Supercut of Goodman freakouts from Flavorwire. 

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24th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Short Attention Span Theatre: Dr Easy

Always up for a good robot. 

WARP FILMS, FILM4 and SHYNOLA present Dr. Easy
Michael is a broken man with a gun. He is surrounded by armed police. A robot with medical training is dispatched to negotiate – but can it save him?
Dr. Easy is a prologue for a planned feature adaptation of The Red Men.
Written and directed by Jason Groves, Richard Kenworthy and Christopher Harding

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21st Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: Computer Chess

Really enjoyed this lo-tech gem at Sundance. Hope the arrival of this fuller trailer means it's getting a release soon.

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19th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Douglas Trumbull: UFOTOG

Short looking at FX legend Douglas Trumbull's plans to get some HD UFO footage. Good idea. More details of a feature-length drama he's planning (about a man who wants to film some UFOs) over at THR - shooting in 4K 3D at 120 frames per second. He's also developing "a sci-fi epic that takes place about 200 years in the future”. We're in.

UFOTOG, an acronym for UFO photography, is “based on a longer screenplay that I have” that tells the story of a man’s attempt to photograph an alien spacecraft. “He’s very smart, a serial entrepreneur, like Elon Musk. So he has the wherewithal to get a really good camera and build a system on a mountaintop.” The photographer is played by actor Ryan Winkles.

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19th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: Anchorman - The Legend Continues

It's kind of a big deal...

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19th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Short Attention Span Theatre: Secret Identity

Touching riff on superheroes and memories, starring Lee Meriwether (aka Catwoman from the 1966 Batman movie). Via @aintitcoolnews

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18th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: Spike Island

More Stone Roses nostalgia on the way...

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17th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: The Wolf Of Wall Street

Scorsese and DiCaprio on rampaging dollar-bill chucking form in this stockbroker drama. Written by Terence "Boardwalk Empire" Winter, based on the autobiography by Jordan Belfort.

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17th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: In A World

Meta-trailer for Lake Bell's highly enjoyable comedy about a voice-over artist working in a world where LA's movie trailer voice-over industry is dominated by men.

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13th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Apocalypse, NOW!

Hollywood's really in an end-of-days mood at the moment. There's This Is The End (Seth Rogen and his stoner pals hang out at the end of the world); The World's End (Simon Pegg and his mates do the same thing on a pub crawl); Rapture-Palooza (Craig Robinson comes back from This Is The End only this time - he's got horns); and there's World War Z (a global zombie showdown), Pacific Rim (giant monsters v giant mechasuits), even Man Of Steel gets to fend off some serious intergalactic architectural destruction. Plus there was last year's Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World; not to mention the planet-wars in Eylsium and Ender's Game, and then Oblivion and After Earth which fast-forward to look at what the planet's like after everything's been wiped out. Are they trying to tell us something?

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12th Jun 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: Paranoia / The Family

A double-bill of older icons: first up, Harrison Ford gets a close shave to play a corporate raider wrangling with long-standing rival Gary Oldman via young bridge'n'tunnel hitech wizzkid Liam Hemsworth in Paranoia. Below, Michelle Pfeiffer is married to mobster Robert De Niro and finding The Family are getting bored with a life of witness protection, even when they're hiding out in France. Directed by Luc Besson.

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