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The Karate Kid (2010)

The Karate Kid (2010)

What makes a cliché a cliché? Certainly the repeated use of ideas, concepts or expressions until the original intent or effect is rendered impotent is how clichés are forged. But why are certain...

Jun 26, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong
Drama

Toy Story 3 (2010)

Toy Story 3 (2010)

Pixar isn’t blazing any new trails in the realm of critically acclaimed animated cinema. Its parent company, Disney, has been winning Oscars with its hand-drawn masterpieces since 1937. But, the...

Jun 23, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong
Essays

Interview: Hal Hartley

Interview: Hal Hartley

Hal Hartley, one of the most prolific American independent directors, has recently released a collection of films titled “Possible Films Volume 2.” Hartley’s career dates back to the 1980s, when he...

Jun 21, 2010 / Angelos Koutsourakis
Essays

What I Learned About ‘Splice’ Through Audience Reactions

What I Learned About ‘Splice’ Through Audience Reactions

“Splice,” the new film by Canadian director Vincenzo Natali, is a revitalizing standout in the long-suffering genre of sci-fi/horror. Instead of veering into predictable B-movie, torture-porn...

Jun 21, 2010 / Vanessa Graniello
Drama

The A-Team (2010)

The A-Team (2010)

The merits of an intellectual elucidation of Joe Carnahan’s 21st century revamp of the mid-1980s absurdist TV show about a team of disgraced Army Rangers-turned outlaw mercenaries are negligible at...

Jun 20, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong
Blogs

Lone Wolf in Black America: A Bill Gunn Retrospective

Lone Wolf in Black America: A Bill Gunn Retrospective

“I’ve liked every script I’ve ever written,” Bill Gunn told an interviewer in 1971, “I’ve hated every movie made from them.” It’s a prickly statement for a screenwriter, especially one with such a...

Jun 16, 2010 / Jesse Cataldo
Festivals

One Night Only – TFF & Hartke Records present FISHBONE live at Frida’s this Friday night at 8 PM!

One Night Only – TFF & Hartke Records present FISHBONE live at Frida’s this Friday night at 8 PM!

Put on your boogie shoes and get your funk on at Frida’s this Friday night for Fishbone’s first live appearance in Wichita, with the Key Elements and Rudy Love Jr & The Getdown! Tickets are on sale...

Jun 15, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong
Features

Rodrick Pocowatchit’s ‘The Dead Can’t Dance’ to Have Canadian Premiere

Rodrick Pocowatchit’s ‘The Dead Can’t Dance’ to Have Canadian Premiere

Wichita, KS — Award-winning Wichita filmmaker Rodrick Pocowatchit’s Native American zombie comedy “The Dead Can’t Dance” will have its international and Canadian premiere in Montreal on Saturday,...

Jun 15, 2010 / Staff
News

‘Green Lantern 2′ Gets Writers Already?! Same Trio Tapped for ‘The Flash’

‘Green Lantern 2′ Gets Writers Already?! Same Trio Tapped for ‘The Flash’

Warner Bros. apparently has a lot of confidence in their latest superhero vehicle, “Green Lantern,” directed by Martin Campbell. Even though the film, currently shooting in New Orleans and starring...

Jun 10, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong
FCS

Video: Ralph Macchio, the Original ‘Karate Kid’ Tries to Be Bad

Video: Ralph Macchio, the Original ‘Karate Kid’ Tries to Be Bad

With the approaching release of the new “Karate Kid” movie starring Jaden Smith (Will Smith’s boy) and Jackie Chan, many fans of the original 1984 film find themselves wondering whatever happened to...

Jun 10, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong
Features

Official US Trailer for ‘Dogtooth’

“Dogtooth,” also known as “Kynodontas,” the much-heralded Greek film from Yorgos Lanthimos (“My Best Friend,” “Kinetta”) has become something of a phenomenon since winning the top prize in its...

Jun 9, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong
Comedy

Video: New ‘Scott Pilgrim’ Clip

Video: New ‘Scott Pilgrim’ Clip

Watch the 2010 MTV Movie Awards at MTV.com! During the MTV Movie Awards pre-show Director Edgar Wright previewed a short clip from his upcoming film, “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World” starring Michael...

Jun 7, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong
News

Einstein Biopic Gets a Writer

Einstein Biopic Gets a Writer

It was first reported in October that Lionsgate had picked up the rights not only to Walter Isaacson’s biography, “Einstein: His Life and Universe,” (Simon & Schuster, 2007) but also to the entire...

Jun 6, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong
News

Horror King John Carpenter to Direct ‘Fangland’

Horror King John Carpenter to Direct ‘Fangland’

John Carpenter, the master of horror, will direct the adaptation of John Marks’ 2008 novel “Fangland” for Sriram Das and Blumhouse Productions. ComingSoon reports that the project, which has been in...

Jun 5, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong
Features

Norwegian Ninja Trailer

Norwegian Ninja Trailer

Euforia Film, the same prod company that brought us the farcical Nazi/zombie horror/comedy, “Dead Snow,” has just released the first trailer for Thomas Cappelen Malling’s seemingly equally insane...

Jun 5, 2010 / Eric M. Armstrong
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