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‘A Late Quartet’ Trailer Shows Off a Fantastic Cast Making Difficult Music...
If Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Mark Ivanir and Wallace Shawn were in a movie together, would you go see it? Director Yaron Zilberman (Watermarks) is even throwing in...
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37 Things We Learned From the ‘Boogie Nights’ Commentary
All right, all you great big, bright, shining stars out there. It’s time to hear what Paul Thomas Anderson has to say. With recent movies like There Will Be Blood and his latest, The Master, the...
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Philip Seymour Hoffman Wants to Creep You Out With ‘Ezekiel Moss’
Hollywood mainstay Philip Seymour Hoffman (My Boyfriend’s Back) is one of the best loved actors working today. Not only has he established himself as a strong character actor over the course of his...
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What is the Meaning of ‘The Master’?
Now that Paul Thomas Anderson‘s The Master is in slightly wider release than it was in its opening weekend, perhaps it is time to discuss this period drama, which is perplexing both critics and...
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What ‘The Master’ Actually Means
A week or so ago, our Christopher Campbell wrote a piece posing the burning question: What is the Meaning of The Master? The fact is, he isn’t the only one asking. Some have harshly compared...
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How ‘Moneyball’ Failed By Not Being the Baseball Movie ‘Major League’ Is
While inspirational sports stories usually prove to be box office draws, when you make them you still run the risk of alienating the portion of the film-going audience who just don’t like sports. If...
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2013 Oscar Prediction: Best Supporting Actor
The supporting actor. He’s not the guy, he’s the guy behind the guy. That’s not always a bad thing though. The lead actor generally has to be the guy the audience is relating to, so those sort of...
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Audit Yourself with ‘The Master’ Drinking Game
Nominated for three Oscars, The Master was a passion project for director P.T. Anderson. It pulled the veil back on a fictionalized account of Scientology as well as proving that Joaquin Phoenix can...
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Roger Sterling is Going to Get to Direct Philip Seymour Hoffman In ‘God’s...
Seeing as he’s one of the senior partners at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce ad agency, John Slattery’s Mad Men character, Roger Sterling, is very used to being in charge of a crew of people. And now...
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Casting Couch: Philip Seymour Hoffman Joins ‘Child 44,’ Keira Knightley Joins...
What is Casting Couch? A compiling of the day’s casting news that today has word of new gigs for Elizabeth Banks as well as some good news for a couple of the former cast members of Party Down. How...
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Vincent Cassel is the New Philip Seymour Hoffman in ‘Child 44’
It was just a couple days ago when we were complaining about the curious lack of Vincent Cassel in our current movies and then rejoicing as he stepped in for a dropping out Oscar Isaac as the lead of...
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Sundance 2014 Review: ‘A Most Wanted Man’ Takes the Long Way Around
The 9/11 attacks were planned from the beautiful, immigrant-friendly city of Hamburg, and Germany swore afterwards that it would never happen again. In addition to tightening security for those coming...
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Fade Out: Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967-2014)
It is with tremendous sadness that I report that one of our generation’s greatest actors has left the world’s stage. Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his Manhattan apartment this morning,...
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Required Reading: Saying Goodbye to Maximilian Schell and Philip Seymour Hoffman
The best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere. There will be a quiz later. Just leave a tab open for us, will ya? “Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Final Secret” — Tom Junod at Esquire pens...
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How ‘Capote’ Changed the Direction of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Career
There’s a unique double-take aspect to Philip Seymour Hoffman‘s magnetism that defined many of the diverse roles he inhabited. Hoffman was a chameleon, able to lend even the smallest part a distinct...
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Required Reading: The Soul of ‘Almost Famous’ and the Truth in Non-Fiction
The best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere. There will be a quiz later. Just leave a tab open for us, will ya? “PSH” — Cameron Crowe describes his original vision for the Uncool...
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Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Best Performance
He could be anyone, he ennobled the underdog, he never met a challenge he couldn’t surpass. These are all things that were said about Philip Seymour Hoffman throughout his career, and their chorus got...
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Broken Projector: The Only True Currency
It’s only natural that we discuss Philip Seymour Hoffman and the powerful work he left behind this week. We’ll also take the opportunity to think on other outstanding acting talents that we can be...
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19 Things We Learned from ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ Commentary
At the tail end of 2013, Iron Man 3 received one of the biggest bitch-slaps of the year, courtesy of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. The teen novel adaptation swooped in and eclipsed the Marvel...
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‘Fast & Furious 7′ May Honor Paul Walker’s Legacy By Sculpting Him Out of CGI
Universal Pictures Fast & Furious 7 has begun shooting. Heck, it’s been shooting — production began a week ago, and has (presumably) been going strong ever since. But even as Atlanta transforms...
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‘God’s Pocket’ Review: See it for Philip Seymour Hoffman
IFC Films In one sense, it hurts to consider God’s Pocket in the wake of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s tragic death. The movie offers another sobering reminder of the enormous talent we lost in February,...
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Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Final Starring Role Hints at a Brilliant Career...
Roadside Attractions When artists die young, their legend often grows disproportionately to their record of accomplishments. When James Dean passed away after making just three films, he was...
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Review: ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part I’ Shouldn’t Have Been a Part I
Lionsgate The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part I opens with Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) buried deep in District 13. After breaking the Hunger Games arena and getting rescued by freedom fighters...
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Celebrity Deaths vs. Eternal Franchises: How Hollywood Avoids Mortality
Universal Pictures Warning: The following post contains spoilers about Furious 7. The problem is that death at the movies has died. The movie industry has corrupted one of cinema’s — if not all of...
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 is Half a Movie But Also Three Movies...
Lionsgate If you’ve made it this far into the Hunger Games series, you’re going to see the concluding installment, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, regardless of what a review says. But you don’t...
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