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Trailer Debut: Parkland

One of the more interesting indie releases of late 2013 will most certainly be Parkland, which details the assassination of President Kennedy from the perspective of the event’s lesser known players. Paul Giamatti plays Abraham Zapruder, the gent who unwittingly recorded one of the most significant moments in modern history; Billy Bob Thornton stars as […]

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Bad Santa 2 gets a director

According to Deadline, Hot Tub Time Machine director Steve Pink is in talks to helm a sequel to the 2003 nasty classic, Bad Santa. Terry Zwigoff‘s original film has only gotten better as the years have passed and Billy Bob Thornton‘s central role is the definitive ‘drunk Santa’ (Dan Aykroyd in Trading Places rates high […]

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Bad Santa 2 being written by duelling screenwriters

Screenwriters: enter the Thunderdome! Dimension Films has commissioned two screenwriters to pen individual scripts for a sequel to Bad Santa. According to the L.A. Times, the two writers (John Phillips and Johnny Rosenthal) are aware that they are participating in a writer’s duel. Although only one of the scripts will be selected for the sequel, there is […]

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Dwaynegerous – Faster review

Faster – Starring Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton and Oliver Jackson-Cohen. Directed by George Tillman Jr. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. It has taken almost an entire decade for Dwayne Johnson to shed his wrestling moniker and be recognised by audiences as an “ac-tor” with a regular name minus any definite articles. He’s proven in […]

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