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The Reject Report Meets Its Due Date
Halloween has past. October is no more. We have now entered the cool, gray month of November, and with it comes the Fall holiday movie season. They’re kicking it off early this year, right here at week...
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Box Office: DreamWorks Animation Has a Megamind for Success
Just as expected, DreamWorks Animation proved once again they are a force to be reckoned with in the world of animated feature films. Their latest outing, Megamind, led the charge this weekend, the...
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Culture Warrior: Men in Tight Spots
Editor’s Note: Normally it’s Landon Palmer hustling your brain through the mental gymnastics of popular culture and film theory, but he’s grading papers or something, so Cole Abaius is taking the...
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Interview: Danny Boyle Stays Hopeful With “127 Hours”
Danny Boyle is a jolly type of guy, which is a fact clearly shown in his past few films. Even when Boyle is tackling bleak material, like Sunshine or 28 Days Later or The Beach, he still finds a way to...
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Review: 127 Hours
It’s not often that a movie gets a physical reaction out of me. Emotional, sure. That’s par for the course. But physical? Not so much. In 127 Hours there was a moment where I was curled into so tight...
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Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card: November 19, 2010
This week, Fat Guy Kevin Carr puts on a wizard’s robe, wears a colorful scarf and dances around in the woods with his magic wand yelling, “Stupify!” And that’s just to celebrate the release of Fair...
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The 2010 Indie Spirit Award Nominations Celebrate Sadness With ‘Winter’s Bone’
The top nominations for this year’s Indie Spirit Awards are no surprise. Winter’s Bone continues its march through the woods to find its father and an Oscar with 7 nominations (which is almost all it...
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Year in Review: Top 10 Topics, Trends, and Events of 2010 That Have Nothing...
It’s that time of the year again: that brief span of time in between Christmas and New Year’s when journalists, critics, and cultural commentators scramble to define an arbitrary block of time even...
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Year In Review: The Best Movie Posters of 2010
There are two reasons why looking at the best movie posters is fascinating. The first is the inherent interest that all advertising brings. It’s art that’s meant to sell something that can’t admit...
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The Best Films of 2010: The Staff Picks
As I expressed earlier in the week as our 2010 Year in Review began, I take it as a great honor that I am able to put together my list of the Best Films of the Year as part of my Editor’s Picks entry....
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These Might Be Your Oscar Nominees For Best Picture
The Producers Guild of America is known for aligning its picks with the Oscar nominations with the startling regularity that can only come when two groups share the same voting pool. That’s why groups...
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Talking Heads: The Sundance Also Rises
Every week, Landon Palmer and Cole Abaius log on to their favorite chat client of 1996 as NoWaveSurfer and KeatonRox2738 in order to discuss some topical topic of interest. This week, the purported...
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Movie News After Dark: Kevin Smith Buys His Own Film, ‘Kick-Ass 2′ and More...
What is Movie News After Dark? This is a question that I am almost never asked, but I will answer it for you anyway. Movie News After Dark is FSR’s newest late-night secretion, a column dedicated to...
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Envelope Please: The 2011 Academy Award Nominees
At the end of the 90s, famous Oscar show writer and Celebrity Fit Club contestant Bruce Vilanch claimed that, “Generally with the Oscars…there isn’t much you can do until the nominations are...
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Talking Heads: Is Kevin Smith Right About Distribution Being Broken?
Every week, Landon Palmer and Cole Abaius log on to their favorite chat client of 1996 as ClairesKneeFan and THXForAllTheFish1138 in order to discuss some topical topic of interest. This week, the two...
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Reject Radio #76: Schooling The Academy
This week, on a very special episode of Reject Radio, Awards Season junkie and editor-in-chief of In Contention, Kris Tapley, joins us to shoot the bull on the Oscars. We’ll be roasting that bull on a...
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Oscar Breakdown: Best Actor in a Leading Role
This article is part of our Oscar Week Series, where you will find breakdowns and predictions for all of the major categories. If you want to separate the actors who are just good from the ones who...
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Oscar Breakdown: Best Original Score
This article is part of our Oscar Week Series, where you will find breakdowns and predictions for all of the major categories. There are few categories as enigmatic as Best Score. What do voters even...
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Oscar Breakdown: Best Adapted Screenplay
This article is part of our Oscar Week Series, where you will find breakdowns and predictions for all of the major categories. The process of making a film involves thousands of moving parts and...
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Oscar Breakdown: Best Picture
This article is part of our Oscar Week Series, where you will find breakdowns and predictions for all of the major categories. This Sunday’s 83rd Annual Academy Awards will be the second year in a row...
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This Week In DVD: March 1st
Now that the Academy Awards have told us that the best film of 2010 is The King’s Speech the next few months of DVD releases are bound to be filled with mediocrity and bitter disappointment until Tom...
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Weekly DVD Drinking Game: ’127 Hours’
Ever feel like you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place? Well, talk to Aron Ralston about that, or talk to James Franco who played Ralston in the film 127 Hours. Yeah, I know… It just might be in...
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Movie News After Dark: Captain America, Mad Men, Akira, Wiley E. Coyote and...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly column with a bunch of movie news in it. What, are you new here? Care to watch one minute of the likely two minute long trailer for Captain America: The...
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8 Gruesome Movie Scenes That Made Audiences Sick
Luis Bunuel once claimed that he kept rocks in his pockets during the first screening of Un Chien Andalou in case the crowd didn’t like what it saw. Whether or not that’s actually true, the audience...
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8 Terrifyingly Plausible Non-Horror Film Nightmares
It’s almost Halloween, and so you’re contractually obligated with Satan to watch a horror movie. He takes those contracts seriously, folks. But as you go over all the countless sub-genres to watch,...
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