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August 19, 2016
Interview: Dave Christiano from Cross Country Racing Movie “Remember the Goal”
In "Remember the Goal," a new female coach fresh out of college takes over the cross country program at an all girls private Christian school and tries to lead them to their first state title. Real-life cross country coach Dave Christiano wrote and directed the film. In an interview, Christiano compared coaching and directing and what he did to make sure that this film, the first-ever to focus on girls' cross country, was as accurate as possible.
What makes cross-country different...
What makes cross-country different...
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Trailer: A Monster Calls with Liam Neeson
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, inspired by the late Siobhan Dowd, is the story of a boy whose mother is critically ill. He feels utterly isolated. His father has a new family. His grandmother is cold and unsympathetic. The sympathy of his teachers just makes him feel worse. And then one day, a monster calls, a monster with stories to tell. The film stars Liam Neeson, Felicity Jones, and Sigourney Weaver.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Xbo......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Xbo......
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August 18, 2016
War Dogs
"What does AEY stand for?" a newly hired employee asks Efraim Diveroli (Jonah Hill). "You mean morally?" No, he just wants to know what the initials represent, though the answer is the same: nothing. And, as it turns out, asking the question and correcting Efraim's mistake get him fired. AEY "stands for" making money, no questions asked. That will be the basis for great success, until it is also the basis...
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Ben-Hur
Lew Wallace's 1880 book, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, had a revolutionary idea in a spiritual setting. The story of a minor, fictional character at the time of the crucifixion was the first to try to illuminate epic themes through the depiction of a character who was not a participant. Indeed, the title character was hardly aware of the monumental events going on around him. He was too busy dealing with his own personal crises like being enslaved and...
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The American Bar Association’s Six Types of Movie Lawyers
The American Bar Association's ABA Journal magazine has an article about movie lawyers that is not the usual top 50 list. Thane Rosenbaum writes about the six types of movie lawyers: crusading, heroic, obtuse, disillusioned, vengeful, and buffoons. Of course, some of the best movies have lawyer characters who fall into more than one of these categories. "To Kill a Mockingbird" has the greatest of all movie lawyers,...
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Ben-Hur Interview: Roma Downey
It takes a lot of courage to re-make a film that holds the record (tied with "Titanic" and "Lord of the Rings") for the most Oscars, but producer Roma Downey has more than updated movie-making technology to bring to "Ben-Hur." After the success of their previous Biblical epics "The Bible" and "A.D." they wanted to tell a story from the era with another perspective. The 1870 Lew Wallace novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is adjacent to the story of Jesus, and...
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Kubo and the Two Strings
LAIKA Studios fourth film, "Kubo and the Two Strings," is a fable of exquisite beauty and meaning, gorgeously produced in the most painstaking of all forms of filmmaking, stop-motion animation. This is the modern-day equivalent of the monks who labored for years on each page of illuminated manuscripts.
Every detail in every frame and every element of the story, set in a magical version of ancient Japan, reflects the simple profundity of the ancient and contemporary Japanese art that...
Every detail in every frame and every element of the story, set in a magical version of ancient Japan, reflects the simple profundity of the ancient and contemporary Japanese art that...
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August 17, 2016
Pioneers of African-American Cinema — Now on DVD
The 5-disc set Pioneers of African-American Cinema, funded via Kickstarter, is a treasure of rarely-seen films from pioneering filmmakers like Oscar Micheaux. The New York Times wrote, "From the perspective of cinema history — and American history, for that matter — there has never been a more significant video release."
These were...
These were...
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Trailer Premiere: Same Kind of Different As Me with Greg Kinnear, Renee Zellweger, and Djimon Hounsou
The bestseller Same Kind of Different As Me is the true story of a sophisticated art dealer whose life was changed by his friendship with a homeless man. We are pleased to premiere the trailer for the film based on the book, starring Greg Kinnear, Djimon Hounsou, and Renee Zellweger.
The movie will be in theaters February 3, 2017....
The movie will be in theaters February 3, 2017....
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Trailer: The Great Gilly Hopkins
The classic Katherine Paterson novel, The Great Gilly Hopkins, the story of an angry foster child who dreams of being reunited with her mother, is now a movie starring Oscar-winner Kathy Bates as a kind-hearted foster mother.
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