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Critics Consensus: Easy A and The Town Are Certified FreshThis week at the movies, we've got a would-be harlot (Easy A, starring Emma Stone and Stanley Tucci); some Beantown bank robbers (The Town, starring Ben Affleck and Jon Hamm); wandering wolves (Alpha and Omega, with voice work by Justin Long and Hayden Panettiere); and a satanic elevator (Devil, starring Chris Messina & Geoffrey Arend). Critics say Easy A benefits greatly from the presence of Emma Stone, who helps to elevate this John Hughes-esque comedy with her natural comic instincts. The pundits say the Certified Fresh The Town is proof (if any were needed) that Affleck is a strong director, and he gets memorable performances out of Jon Hamm, Rebecca Hall, Jeremy Renner, and others in a strong crime procedural. |
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RT Honor Roll: The 25 Best School Movies of All TimeIt’s that time of year again: time for pencils, for books, and of course, teachers’ dirty looks. But don’t despair: your friends at Rotten Tomatoes are here to make sure your back to school transition is filled with quality cinema. With RT’s Honor Roll, we count down the 25 best-reviewed school movies of all time! Of course, movie critics are tough graders, so each movie on our list had to work hard to earn such high marks. Every film included here has at least 20 reviews and is primarily about the going to school and/or life on campus. In fact, the movies here have such good reviews that some of your favorites (Back to School, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Mean Girls) just missed the cut. So what’s left? Lots of great stuff – movies funnier than the class clown and smarter than the valedictorian. OK class, enough talk: it’s time to open your books to RT’s Honor Roll! |
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Five Favorite Films with Catfish Directors Henry Joost and Rel SchulmanDocumentary or skilfully edited fiction? We can’t really talk too much about Catfish, the Sundance hit that swims into theaters this week on a wave of word-of-mouth, because, well, it would ruin the experience of watching the film’s events unfold. What we can say is the film -- which charts the unlikely online friendship between New York photographer Nev Schulman and an 8-year-old Michigan girl -- taps into a social phenomenon wholly particular to our time, keeping its audience guessing as it twists and turns into unexpected revelations. Or… are they? Rather than spoil the film, we caught up with co-directors Henry Joost and Rel Schulman (Nev’s brother) and asked them to run through their five favorite films. |
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Total Recall: Ben Affleck's Best MoviesA mere six years ago, it looked like Ben Affleck might spend the rest of his career in little-seen duds like Jersey Girl and Surviving Christmas -- a precipitous fall for a guy who won an Oscar at the age of 25 and starred in blockbusters like Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, and The Sum of All Fears. Now just look how things have changed: Having reinvented himself as a critically lauded director with 2007's Gone Baby Gone, Ben's back in front of (and behind) the camera this weekend with one of the season's most anticipated films -- The Town. What better time to take a fond look back at his critical highlights, Total Recall style? |
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Five Favorite Films with Michael ShannonMichael Shannon has made an impressive mark on Hollywood in the past few years. The noted character actor picked up a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his small-but-crucial role in Revolutionary Road, and this year he’s had two new movies in release -- Werner Herzog's My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, an unconventional police procedural that examines the mind of a man who slowly went mad, and The Runaways, playing the legendary (and legendarily piggish) rock impresario Kim Fowley. As Brad in My Son, My Son, Shannon convincingly embodies a deeply disturbed man whose life was changed during a rafting trip in Peru; upon his return to the States, he becomes consumed by religious fervor and his performance in a community theater -- and the result isn’t pretty. And in The Runaways, Shannon plays Fowley with a carnival-barker’s sense of showbiz -- as well as a shrewd head for the music business. |
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Casey Affleck: Joaquin Phoenix Documentary Wasn't RealAccording to an article in the New York Times, I'm Still Here, the Casey Affleck-directed documentary chronicling the professional breakdown of actor Joaquin Phoenix, is a complete fabrication. Click through for the full article! |
New York Times |
Affleck Fights Cliches, Finds Redemption in The TownFor writer/director/star Ben Affleck, making "The Town" wasn't as simple as the film's two-word title -- as the Los Angeles Times illustrates with this new profile. |
Los Angeles Times |
Will Gluck Talks Easy AJudging from the early reviews, "Easy A" looks like a teen comedy that gets it right. Director Will Gluck discussed his experiences on the set during a recent video interview. |
Collider.com |
12 Movies That Take Place in a Single Location"Devil" throws filmgoers into an elevator for 80 minutes of terror -- and it extends a long Hollywood tradition of single-location movies. Here's a Moviefone list of a dozen films that did it first. |
Moviefone |
The Dowdle Brothers Talk DevilM. Night Shyamalan's name gets all the press, but "Devil" wouldn't have happened without the work of the John Erick Dowdle and his brother Drew. The director/producer team talks to the L.A. Times about the claustrophobic thriller in a new interview. |
Los Angeles Times |
Jeremy Renner Talks The AvengersJeremy Renner fielded a few questions about his role as Hawkeye in "The Avengers" during a recent MTV interview, predicting that his character's infamous purple costume will be "a little more reality-based." |
MTV |
10 Films That Were Released UnratedThe grisly "Hatchet II" is about to get the widest release of any unrated film in years. Here's a Moviefone list of other films that have gone off into the brave, non-MPAA sanctioned wilderness. |
Moviefone |
IFC Explores Werner Herzog's CavesIFC Films has picked up Werner Herzog's latest project, a 3-D documentary titled "Caves of Forgotten Dreams." |
Collider.com |
Carl Ellsworth and Neal Moritz Have GoosebumpsR.L. Stine's popular "Goosebumps" series is headed for the screen, courtesy of producer Neal Moritz and screenwriter Carl Ellsworth. |
Risky Biz |
Kevin James to Film Mixed Martial Arts ComedyKevin James will soon be seen in a Sony comedy -- as yet untitled -- about "a physics teacher who moonlights as a mixed martial arts fighter to save his school's music program." |
Collider.com |
Jennifer Garner and Jeremy Renner Explore Better Living through ChemistryJennifer Garner is in talks to star opposite Jeremy Renner in "Better Living through Chemistry," a thriller about a pharmacist (Renner) whose affair with a married woman (Garner) has violent consequences. |
Hollywood Reporter |
The 10 Best Heist Movie DisguisesWith Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner robbing banks in costume in "The Town" this weekend, Moviefone decided to put together a list of the 10 best disguises in heist movie history. |
Moviefone |
Five Marvel Franchises That Pixar Needs to AnimateThat wacky rumor about Pixar developing an animated "Dr. Strange" movie has inspired Moviefone to put together a list of five other Marvel properties the studio should tackle. |
Moviefone |
10 Movies Starring the DevilThe devil takes an elevator to a theater near you this weekend, in M. Night Shyamalan's aptly titled "Devil." Here are ten other films starring the Prince of Darkness. |
Popdose |
Mark Romanek Talks Never Let Me GoWith "Never Let Me Go" opening this weekend, now is the perfect time for director Mark Romanek to discuss the project in an interview with Collider. |
Collider.com |