December 5, 2013
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Breaking Braddock: New Christian Bale Film Puts Spotlight on Hard Hit Town

...Pennsylvania, Bale’s Russell Baze works at a mill that is likely going under, soon. His brother Rodney (Affleck), a four-tour Iraq veteran, racks up gambling debts before landing for a stint in...

January 8, 2014
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Polar Vortex Film List: Behind-the-Chill of Some Seriously Cold Films

...Tauntuan and several layers of Gortex to get around if you live in the Midwest. Around 500 people got stuck on three Amtrak trains in Illinois on Monday thanks to the polar vortex....

February 20, 2014
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Georgian Filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili on her Powerful Debut In Bloom

...film depicts breadlines, the pressures to marry for young girls… A lot of things have changed. At the time, under president [Mikheil] Saakashvili, we had no electricity, sometimes no water, and sometimes...

February 26, 2014
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In Their Words: Some of This Year’s Oscar Nominees on Their Craft, Part II

...attention to detail the Frozen team displayed. Frank Hanner, character CG supervisor, gave us an example—in the number of hairs they put on Elsa’s head. “The average human has about 100,000 hairs...

March 4, 2014
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Flying the Unfriendly Skies with Non-Stop Stunt Coordinator Mark Vanselow

...comically small airplane bathroom, a complicated fight choreography made even more difficult to pull off because Vanselow couldn’t rehearse it in a lavatory that sat in the middle of a live set....

April 22, 2014
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Earth Day 2014: Hollywood Wants to Write Happy Ending for Planet With Eco Efforts

...“100% sustainable” status in the coming years. In honor of Earth Day, we take a look at some of the ways Hollywood is committed to ‘greening’ up their practices: Click to Enlarge...

June 2, 2014
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Comedy Central's Growing Roster of Female Showstoppers

...by the network as number 70 on the list of the 100 greatest all-time stand up comedians and won a Comedy Central Commie Award for “Funniest TV Actress” that same year. She...

July 28, 2014
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Garrett Brown: An Interview With a Visionary—Part II

...for a more commercial version of his revolutionary camera stabilizer. He talked about shooting his first-ever feature film using a Steadicam on Bound for Glory. And he described his improvised solution for...

July 30, 2014
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Space Creators: Building the Guardians of the Galaxy

...up of an assortment of alien races, she had to make sure the background actors looked as unique and credible as possible. Byrne looked to the comics first to understand the worlds...

August 5, 2014
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International Cast & Crew Cook Up The Hundred-Foot Journey

...where they are assisted by the charming Marguerite (Charlotte Le Bon). Opposed by the older children of the family, the stubborn father, played by Puri, buys a run-down former restaurant in the...