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Reviewed by Ian Forbes, Sobering Conclusion Those handling the release of Ginger & Rosa made sure it qualified for last year’s awards’ season even though the wide release wouldn’t happen until now. Whether they figured 2012 was such a flat year it was their best change or simply couldn’t secure wider distribution, I never bothered [...]

Vampires + witches + a murder mystery + a novelist + Val Kilmer = Twixt, Francis Ford Coppola’s latest directorial effort. The Toronto International Film Festival has just debuted the first trailer from Coppola’s horror thriller and it’s…well…not what you’d expect from the five-time Oscar winner. Hopefully the film’s much better than this first trailer: [...]

Reviewed by Ian Forbes, Sobering Conclusion Super 8 comes from writer/director J.J. Abrams. It features his ridiculous assortment of lens flares (not nearly as prevalent as in Star Trek thankfully) but aside from that and a far more agile, violent creature, many would be hard pressed to say that producer Steven Spielberg wasn’t the one [...]

J.J. Abrams (Lost) pays homage to Steven Spielberg with Super 8, a sci-fi adventure film set in the 1970s. It’s reminiscent of Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., and The Goonies, and it’s received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics. Starring: Kyle Chandler, Elle Fanning, Joel Courtney and Ron Eldard [full cast list under [...]