November 5, 2014
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From Scream to Snowpiercer: Composer Marco Beltrami

...(Hellboy), zom-com (Warm Bodies), drama (Hurt Locker, The Sessions, etc.) and neo-noir (The Drop) to name just a few. Beltrami has made a career of going his own way. In fact, in one of this year's most surprisingly...

March 18, 2015
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SXSW 2015: Andrew Bujalksi on Writing and Directing Results

...bad people, they’re weird, but they're genuine. I was waiting for the big reveal that Guy’s character ends up being a pedophile. Right…[laughs], I’m trying to imagine my good natured, sweet romantic...

April 15, 2015
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Four Films to Make Tax Day a Little Less Taxing

...infectious nuttiness of the brothers Blue, you might have fun spotting film's legion of guest stars, including James Brown, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, John Candy, Carrie Fisher, Steve Lawrence, Twiggy,...

May 5, 2015
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6 Films To Celebrate Cinco de Mayo

...legendary — and legendarily temperamental — Rivera (Alfred Molina), who takes her under his wing as an artist, a political revolutionary, and, inevitably, a lover. But their relationship is fraught with trouble,...

May 8, 2015
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Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of V-E Day Through Film

...killers known as "The Basterds," which includes baseball-bat-wielding Bostonian Sgt. Donnie Donowitz (aka "The Bear Jew," Eli Roth) and steely psychopath Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz (Til Schweiger), among others. When the Basterds' secret...

May 12, 2015
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Learn About Modern Film Composing With the Blair Brothers

...then. In liu of big Hollywood percussion, there’s hand claps and thigh slaps and drumming in a very primal way. It’s a beautiful film and we think the score is perfect. https://soundcloud.com/blair-brothers-music...

May 26, 2015
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A Brief History of Memorial Day & Four Movies

...squad of right-hand man Sgt. Horvath (Tom Sizemore), plus privates Mellish (Adam Goldberg), Medic Wade (Giovanni Ribisi), cynical Reiben (Edward Burns) from Brooklyn, Italian-American Caparzo (Vin Diesel), and religious Southerner Jackson (Barry...

May 26, 2015
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Details on Jurassic World, Questions About Game of Thrones & More

...eat the chicken nuggets. A chicken nugget-borne illness that can turns the prepubescent into zombies? Right. Cooties is a zom-com with a great cast of goofballs (Rainn Wilson, Alison Pill, Nasim Pedrad, Elijah Wood), a pleasingly ridiculous...

June 8, 2015
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Me and Earl and The Dying Girl Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

...(as of this writing, it still has a 100% fresh score on RottenTomatoes.com), and was purchased for theatrical distribution nationwide by Fox Searchlight. The film, which tells the story of a film-making...

June 24, 2015
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Dana Nachman on the Phenomenon of her Doc Batkid Begins

...will be seven in August, is in remission and living happily on his family farm with his parents, Nick and Natalie, and little brother, Clayton. Featured image: Five-years-old Miles Scott, from Tulelake, Calif.,...