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6 articles from 2010

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Frozen Q&A with Adam Green

12 hours ago | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

We've all heard about films sometimes being really hard to make. The conditions director Adam Green made his upcoming film Frozen under were nothing short of psychotic. Dread Central received a Q&A with Green in which he sheds a lot of light on this chilly new project!

Frozen starring Shawn Ashmore, Emma Bell, and Kevin Zegers makes its debut at Sundance 2010 and will then be playing in select theatres on February 5th courtesy of Anchor Bay Films.

Why did you want to make Frozen?

While I can never predict what my ideas will be or where they will come from, as soon as I had the basic beats of the story and the characters for Frozen, I knew it had to be the film I made next. The concept of being left behind on a ski lift really struck a chord with anyone I brought it up to, and »

- Uncle Creepy

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Photos: John Travolta in Pierre Morel’s ‘From Paris with Love’

20 hours ago | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »

Check out two new images from French director Pierre Morel’s upcoming action fiesta From Paris with Love starring John Travolta. The film centers on a low-ranking low-ranking intelligence operative (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) working in the U.S. Embassy in France. “He takes on more than he bargained for when he partners with a wisecracking, fast-shooting, clearly American, high-ranking U.S. agent (John Travolta) who’s been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack.

Things presumably blow real good.

This is Morel’s first film since the critically hated, audience loved Liam Neeson actioner, Taken.

Morel has also been associated with a remake of the sci-fi classic Dune.

From Paris with Love opens in the U.S. on February 5th.

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- Reel Loop News Staff

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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Nine

5 January 2010 3:10 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »

Shanghai

Opens: 2010

Cast: John Cusack, Gong Li, Ken Watanabe, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chow Yun-Fat

Director: Mikael Hafstrom

Summary: In the months leading up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, an American man arrives in Shanghai to find his friend recently murdered. In investigating his friend's death, he stumbles upon a secret the United States government has been keeping and falls in love in the process.

Analysis: After being granted permission to shoot in the Chinese city, the $10 million production found its permit quickly being revoked by the Government who expressed concerns about the script. The result is Bangkok and the United Kingdom standing in for the real Shanghai which seems kind of against the entire point.

Cusack himself has emphatically endorsed the project in interviews, calling it a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity", but being stuck at the cash-strapped Weinstein Company means that its release plans are unsure beyond a vague promise of a limited bow around Easter. »

- Garth Franklin

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[DVD Review] 10 Things I Hate About You

3 January 2010 3:10 PM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

Imagine if you could take a course on teenage films, that recently critically derided genre that seems to have become little more than a contest of who can make the cleverest double entendre or the grossest sight gag. Instead of starting way back in the beach musical era, we’ll use a closer albeit equally forgotten tradition the likes of which John Hughes was a master. Sixteen Candles, Better of Dead, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and so many more based their plots around common high school issues like prom, popularity and truancy. If you want to know where the turning point was, 10 Things I Hate About You might be the best place to start.

Hitting theaters four months before the film that started the franchise-that-won’t-die (American Pie), 10 Things was the perfect mix of the two. It had a very classic story borrowed from Shakespeare’s Taming of the »

- Lex Walker

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23 Movies Worth Saving (From the First 23 Years of My Life)

2 January 2010 1:16 PM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »

With the Library of Congress’ recent announcement of the 25 films being added to our National Film Registry for 2009, I was inspired to look back over some of the films that haven’t yet been included. In doing so, I noticed there are many films from my lifetime that deserve eventual recognition. The National Film Preservation Board selects up to 25 films each year to be included in the Registry, so I have selected 23 yet unselected films from my lifetime (one for each year) that I would like to nominate for 2010… in fact, I’ve actually submitted my list of nominations to the National Film Preservation Board, as they encourage the public to do. More info on this can be found at their website.

This list of 23 films spans my lifetime, which means they fall between my year of birth (1978) and the new cut-off year which is 10 years back (2000). This is Not »

- Travis

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The Ten Worst Films of 2009

1 January 2010 6:16 PM, PST | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

The good news about 2009 was that it wasn’t as horrendous as some previous years. In fact, when the good films came to us, they were often truly great pieces of work sprinkled with decent efforts in between. Then of course you had those nuggets of crap that would get through the grinder and remind us that bad movies and filmmaking unfortunately still exists. It seemed for every two Hurt Lockers or Inglourious Basterds there was a Post-Grad or Year One that followed it. Or maybe this year, with all it’s great films, made the dookie stink even more than we’re used to. Instead of posting on my Twitter page ninety times a day about how much I don’t like these films, I’m going to take this opportunity to present the Ten Worst Films of 2009:

10. Taking Woodstock

Horrid, horrid, horrid doesn’t begin to describe this piece of donkey manure. »

- Philip Barrett

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