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26 May 2012 9:57 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

The French gave us the word “demimonde” – literally, half the world. But what it has come to mean in English, or so says Webster, is “a distinct circle or world that is often an isolated part of a larger world.”

Storytellers have always held a fascination with the dark side of human nature; that part of the psyche which is normally restrained and leashed, taught to be obedient, held in check – as Conrad wrote in Heart of Darkness – by the reproving looks of our neighbors. After all, what was Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde but a probing of that other, id-driven half and the entrancing appeal of doing what one wants instead of what one should.

Film is no different than literature, and from its beginning the movies have produced a rich vein of stories about society’s fringe dwellers, those who operate by necessity, »

- Bill Mesce

19 April 2012 1:54 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »

With Battleship taking its cue from a board game, James dreams up a few movie pitches inspired by a humble deck of playing cards…

What’s more surprising than the fact that a board game - namely Battleship - got made into a feature-length blockbuster movie is the fact that people are surprised that a board game got made into a movie. Is it really so jawdroppingly hard to believe? We’re talking about the movie industry here, where the weird go pro and where ‘sensible’ gets nuked in the name of showbiz.

In 1985, Tim Curry fronted a Cluedo film (Clue), so Battleship’s board-game-to-big-screen trajectory isn’t anything new. It isn’t really astounding that Hasbro - the Transformers toymakers masterminding multimedia success - got the naval strategy guessing game and pushed it through the dream factory. From humble roots as a pencil-and-paper pastime to star-studded, special effects-heavy sci-fi-action popcorn flick, »

23 March 2012 11:47 AM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »

You don’t need to be a poker fanatic like myself to enjoy the new documentary All In: The Poker Movie, which opens at New York’s Cinema Village today and is available on video on demand on April 24. But if you are a cards fiend, you’ll appreciate the all-star interviewees featured in director Douglas Tirola’s film, from poker greats such as Phil Hellmuth and Amarillo Slim to other players and icons like Matt Damon, Ira Glass, Kenny Rogers, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Ingrid Weber, who worked as a manager at the Rounders-inspiring Mayfair Club and »

- Clark Collis

3 items from 2012