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Mobster mash – Gangster Squad review

Gangster Squad – Starring Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, and Sean Penn. Directed by Ruben Fleischer. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Fledgling director Ruben Fleischer must have thought he was living in a dream on the first day of shooting Gangster Squad, like an Ohio girl with big eyes and bigger dreams stepping off the bus […]

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Warner Bros cut theatre massacre scene from Gangster Squad

Following the horrific events in Aurora, Colorado last Friday, Warner Bros has decided to cut from their upcoming flick Gangster Squad a scene in which cinema patrons are attacked with gunfire. According to Variety, the studio behind The Dark Knight Rises has been forced to regroup following the shooting death of 12 people during a midnight screening of their […]

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Trailer Debut: Gangster Squad

The trailer for Ruben Fleischer‘s Gangster Squad, starring Sean Penn as mob boss Mickey Cohen and Josh Brolin as the cop tasked with taking him down, has arrived online. Joining Brolin in the hunt for Penn is Ryan Gosling, Giovanni Ribisi, and Anthony Mackie. Emma Stone plays Cohen’s moll, and winds up in bed with her Crazy, Stupid, Love co-star Gosling (again!). Fleischer is […]

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Inhuman behaviour – Zombieland review

Zombieland – Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson and Emma Stone. Directed by Ruben Fleischer. Rated MA. Originally published December 2, 2009. By Simon Miraudo. Has any other film reveled in the evisceration of the human (or in this case inhuman) body with such fervent, fetishistic joy? Ruben Fleischer’s Zombieland feels less like an action comedy […]

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