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Buddy love – Drinking Buddies review

By Simon Miraudo February 11, 2014 Well! Here’s a movie to not watch with your on-again, off-again partner. Obscenely prolific filmmaker Joe Swanberg, one toe still dangling in the mumblecore waters from which he emerged and the rest of him entrenched with Hollywood’s finest, presents us with a tricky relationship conundrum in Drinking Buddies: is […]

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Interview: Mark Duplass (Safety Not Guaranteed)

Interview: Mark Duplass (Safety Not Guaranteed). By Simon Miraudo. Though the similarities between Mark Duplass and James Brown are seemingly few and far between, Duplass is a genuine contender for the late soul legend’s “Hardest Working Man in Show Business” crown. He and his brother Jay made a name for themselves with their ultra-low-budget indie […]

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When the heat gets hot – Safety Not Guaranteed review

Safety Not Guaranteed – Starring Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, and Jake Johnson. Directed by Colin Trevorrow. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. If you like your science-fiction lo-fi, and your coming of age parables with a handy technological metaphor at their core, Colin Trevorrow’s Safety Not Guaranteed is the movie you’ve been waiting for (or perhaps […]

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Steve Carell makes an offer we can’t refuse

Steve Carell and New Girl‘s Jake Johnson are set to star in a new mob comedy for Warner Bros. According to Deadline, the pitch is based on an original idea by Johnson and Max Winkler, for which WB paid six figures. There are no further details on the currently untitled project, though Letterman writer Rodney […]

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