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January 11
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Gangster Squad (2013)
A chronicle of the LAPD's fight to keep East Coast Mafia types out of Los Angeles in the 1940s and 50s.
Director:Ruben Fleischer |
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The Buzz: For his new movie, Ruben Fleischer makes a wise directorial move away from action comedies and goes back to the mid-century for a hard-boiled crime drama with a fine ensemble cast. You might remember the squad was re-booked from an awards-friendly 2012 release to this month after the awful events of Aurora, Colorado; Fleischer cut certain footage and re-shot some scenes in order to soften the film's violence. Despite the high-profile cast, you might say the person getting the most attention at the moment is screenwriter Will Beall since he is developing the Justice League script for Warner Bros.
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A Haunted House (2013)
Malcolm and Keisha move into their dream home, but soon learn a demon also resides there. When Kisha becomes possessed, Malcolm - determined to keep his sex life on track - turns to a priest, a psychic, and a team of ghost-busters for help.
Director:Michael Tiddes |
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The Buzz: Marlon Wayans presents his Paranormal Activity spoof months before Scary Movie 5 -- the franchise Wayans helped launch -- tests its cultural relevancy. Scary will have more marketing power, but we bet Haunted will bring the funny.
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Quartet (2012)
At a home for retired opera singers, the annual concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean, an eternal diva and the former wife of one of the residents.
Director:Dustin Hoffman |
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The Buzz: As the third season of "Downton Abbey" is released in the U.S., no doubt older audiences will indulge in Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut, which places Maggie Smith front and center as the grande dame who shakes up the populace of a home for quippy octogenarians. Reviews have been polite, as you might expect, but little more.
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Struck by Lightning (2012)- Comedy | Drama
After being struck and killed by lightning, a young man recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazine.
Director:Brian Dannelly |
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The Buzz: Unlike most of his "Glee" schoolmates, Chris Colfer might put the New Directions era behind him and wade into the world of filmmaking; his screenplay has earned favorable comparisons to everyone's favorite high school comedies, and there's the built-in cool factor knowing that his character narrates the story from the grave. That's totally Winona-approved.
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$ellebrity (2012)- Documentary
Celebrity photographer Kevin Mazur gives an all access pass to life behind the velvet rope and in front of the camera.
Director:Kevin Mazur |
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The Buzz: Some of the chiefs behind this documentary on the rise of paparazzi culture have graciously contributed the photos for our event coverage over the years, and we wish them the best with the roll out of their new work.
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Storage 24 (2012)
In London, a military plane crashes leaving its highly classified contents strewn across the city. Completely unaware that the city is in lockdown, a group of people become trapped inside a storage facility with a highly unwelcome guest.
Director:Johannes Roberts |
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The Buzz: Noel Clarke grinds out a handful of microbudget films a year in the UK, though in the US he's more the kind of performer who causes people to use this site to answer the question: What movie was he in? Magnolia Pictures follows their now-standard procedure of releasing the movie on VOD a month or so before its theatrical run, which is proving to be a savvy business model for the indie studio. In terms of the film itself, the premise is so ingenious we're surprised no one has thought of it before.
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Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.
Director:Kathryn Bigelow |
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The Buzz: Kathryn Bigelow's never known the level of controversy her follow-up to The Hurt Locker has generated. Even before cameras rolled on the recreation of the events leading up to the assassination of Osama bin Laden, a government watchdog group has filed a lawsuit against the CIA and the Department of Defense since details of the reported meeting between the agencies, Bigelow, and writer Mark Boal have not been released via the Freedom of Information Act. Seems like the filmmakers have been privy to classified information. And that situation is old news when compared to the early critical reactions, which range from laudatory to damning. It's the sort of real-world drama the industry and those who write about it could mutually benefit from, a reminder of when American films used to resonate beyond our desire for entertainment.
January 18
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Mama (2013)
Annabel and Lucas are faced with the challenge of raising his young nieces that were left alone in the forest for 5 years.... but how alone were they?
Director:Andrés Muschietti |
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The Buzz: Looks like Guillermo del Toro is in proud-papa mode as he mentors filmmaker Andres Muschietti, who here adapts his short into what could be one of the most effective spins on the admittedly tired haunted-kid horror story. And we totally love Jessica Chastain's Dragon Tattoo makeover.
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The Last Stand (2013)
The leader of a drug cartel busts out of a courthouse and speeds to the Mexican border, where the only thing in his path is a sheriff and his inexperienced staff.
Director:Jee-woon Kim |
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The Buzz: This thriller, which has earned comparisons to High Noon (seriously), was almost made with Liam Neeson back when Taken made him to the go-to man for action-movie pitches. If the screenplay is as good as its Black List-status, and if Akmareul boatda director Kim Jee-Woon finds a balance between characterization and style, Sheriff Ray Owens might become another iconic Arnold Schwarzenegger hero.
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Broken City (2013)
An ex-cop trailing the wife of New York City's mayor finds himself immersed in a larger scandal.
Director:Allen Hughes |
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The Buzz: From Menace II Society through The Book of Eli, Allen and Albert Hughes always worked in tandem as directors and producers, but Allen has gone solo for this presumably hard-boiled genre film written by Brian Tucker, who has no produced screenplays to his credit but has two projects in development -- a remake of Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Basic Instinct soundalike called The Arrangement. Looking at Mark Wahlberg's upcoming movies, this one almost gets lost in the shuffle; for Russell Crowe, it's a pivotal role between a potential Oscar nomination for Les Misérables and his take on the character Jor-El in the Superman reboot Man of Steel.
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LUV (2012)
11-year-old Woody has to decide whether to follow in his hero's steps or become his own man as he spends the day with his recently paroled uncle, whose attempt to right his life hits an unexpected snag.
Director:Sheldon Candis |
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The Buzz: Common is more of a brand than an actor or rapper these days, but we have heard good things about his co-star, Michael Rainey Jr., in his debut role. Rainey Jr. will next appear as the younger version of Forest Whitaker's title character in The Butler.
January 25
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Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters (2013)
In this dark spin on the fairy tale, siblings Hansel and Gretel are a formidable team of bounty hunters who track and kill witches all over the world.
Director:Tommy Wirkola |
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The Buzz: For a minute there, we wondered if this one would ever get off the ground; to put it in perspective, development on writer-director Tommy Wirkola's follow up to Dead Snow has been in effect since David Fincher was circling Black Hole as his post-Benjamin Button option. Fast forward through all the actresses who've come and gone as Gretel (Diane Kruger, Eva Green, Noomi Rapace) and now we're just nervous that the movie's horror-comedy angle might prevent it from being a crossover hit.
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Parker (2013)
A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew's latest heist.
Director:Taylor Hackford |
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The Buzz: Are you...losing...interest...in....Statham, too? This time, there's Jennifer Lopez by his side and a Robin Hood theme running through the narrative, sorta. I'm amazed this is not a CBS Films release.
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Movie 43 (2013)
An ensemble comedy intertwining different tales.
Directors:Elizabeth Banks | Steven Brill | Steve Carr | Rusty Cundieff | James Duffy | Griffin Dunne | Peter Farrelly | Patrik Forsberg | James Gunn | Bob Odenkirk | Brett Ratner | Jonathan van Tulleken |
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The Buzz: This is like the director's version of New Year's Eve, I guess. Sounds great in theory, and a potentially wasted opportunity to think beyond the big screen in terms of how to distribute such a project. In other words: a YouTube event? Huge traffic with lots of Likes and all the things that matter in the digital age. As a traditional release? Even I might wait to stream it.
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John Dies at the End (2012)
A new street drug that sends its users across time and dimensions has one drawback: some people return as no longer human. Can two college dropouts save humankind from this silent, otherworldly invasion?
Director:Don Coscarelli |
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The Buzz: Don Coscarelli's legion of fans probably know already that Angus Scrimm, the haunting grave-robber from Coscarelli's seminal Phantasm saga, appears in the director's first film in a decade. Armed with a bugged-out premise, Paul Giamatti, and the ever-increasing preference for video on demand, perhaps other innovative and hard-to-define from the Coscarelli Era will resurrect their careers as well.
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