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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Three
17 December 2009 11:42 PM, PST
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Dinner for Schmucks
Opens: July 23rd 2010
Cast: Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis, Bruce Greenwood, David Walliams
Director: Jay Roach
Summary: A renowned publisher encourages his friends to invite the most pathetic guests possible for their weekly dinner party. Just as they find the most pathetic man yet, the host is injured and ends up trapped with the man all night long.
Analysis: A remake of director Francis Veber's 1998 César award-winning "Le Diner des cons", 'Schmucks' is one of the highest profile comedies of next year with one of the strongest casts for the genre in recent memory. It also marks the return of "Austin Powers" and "Meet the Parents" helmer Jay Roach who has produced several films in recent years but hasn't directed since 2004's "Meet the Fockers".
The question now lies not in the performers or director but the material itself and whether a Gallic comedy can
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- Garth Franklin
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Rock Band Metal Track Pack (Musick Game Review)
28 September 2009 11:31 PM, PDT
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When the music game craze started taking hold a few years back, I was tough to sell on it. As a guitarist since '92, I wasn't very keen on a new generation thinking of plastic guitars instead of real instruments. Yes, I was one of those people that called "for shame!" on Guitar Hero, and turned a blind eye to the series.
Then Rock Band came along, and by some fluke my wife and I attended a party where the game was present, just a week after it's release. A few hours later, I was obsessed with playing drums on Rb, and my outlook began to quickly change.
That Christmas I received the full-blown Rock Band set and a year later I found myself purchasing Rock Band 2. Hundreds of dollars in Dlc later, I'm still banging the plastic drums, and always craving new tunes.
So last week when Harmonix asked
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
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Exclusive: Talking Music & Horror with Keith Buckley of Every Time I Die
10 September 2009 11:18 AM, PDT
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As Keith Buckley sees it, Every Time I Die’s new album, New Junk Aesthetic (preview it below), is “kind of, dealing with the fact that there is so much art out there, that you have no idea what’s worth looking at and what isn’t.” If you haven’t figured it out by now, however, Every Time I Die is a band whole heartedly worth paying attention to.
The five-piece from Buffalo, New York are nothing short of a force to reckon with. The band—comprised of guitarists Jordan Buckley and Andrew Williams, bassist Josh Newton and freshly added drummer Ryan Leger—is well versed in the art of creating skillful, creative and exciting metal in a scene overrun with dull imitators. Buckley not only provides some of the most recognizable vocals in the genre, but arguably its smartest lyrics, with his heavily satirical and witty observations. What
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Samuel Zimmerman)
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This Week’s ‘Rock Band’ Dlc: Jackson 5, Audioslave, 3 Doors Down and More
8 September 2009 7:00 AM, PDT
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Rock Band Tracks This Week for XBox 360 and Playstation 3:
He may not be with us anymore but the King of Pop’s musical legacy is still alive and kicking with one of his first hits (along with his brothers) when “ABC” from the Jackson 5 makes it way to Rock Band this week. In addition, super-zero themed “Kryptonite” from 3 Doors Down joins them. Along with Audioslave’s “Gasoline” and AFI’s “Miss Murder”, all these singles will be available for $1.99 each (160 Microsoft points) when they go live on the Rock Band store on XBox 360 on September 8th and the Playstation 3 on September 10th.
In celebration of this past weekend’s Penny Arcade Expo Pax, the Freezepop Pack 01* and Pax 2009 Collection** will both be available with a selection of songs from the event’s performers. All the Freezepop and Pax songs will be available for $1.00 (80 Microsoft points) each or as
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- John Carle
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This Week’s Rock Band Dlc: Billy Idol, Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac
25 August 2009 9:30 AM, PDT
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As announced today on Rock Band’s official website, this week looks to be a big week for Downloadable Content. With the goal of reaching 1000 songs in their library by year’s end, Harmonix welcomes Billy Idol, Tom Petty and Fleetwood Mac in to the Rock Band family of musicians. In addition, a new track from Jet will also be available.
Coming this week to XBox Live on August 25th and the Playstation Network on August 27th for $2.00 a track (160 points on the Microsoft Store):
Billy Idol – “Mony Mony”
Billy Idol – “Rebel Yell”
Fleetwood Mac – “Don’t Stop”
Fleetwood Mac – “World Turning”
Jet – “She’s a Genius”
Tom Petty – “I Won’t Back Down”
Tom Petty – “Runnin’ Down a Dream”
In addition, the Wii which is catching up to the catalog of XBox 360 and the Playstation 3 has a ton of tracks coming in, each for 200 Wii Points ($2.00) including some from recent Flickcast Interviewee,
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- John Carle
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Shane Carwin Will Beat Brock Lesnar (If He Changes His Entrance Music)
14 July 2009 2:48 PM, PDT
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Over the weekend at Ufc 100, former professional wrestler Brock Lesnar established himself as the most dominant heavyweight Mma fighter in the world, delivering a pounding to top contender Frank Mir. Lesnar has only had five fights in his career, but he's a freak who seemingly can't be beaten.
Enter Shane Carwin, a man nicknamed "The Colossus From Colorado" who will become the next in line to fight Lesnar should he beat Cain Velasquez in October. Carwin is also a beast who may have faster hands and a better reach than Lesnar. But he has one thing working against him: His music.
Brock Lesnar made his Ufc debut using Mötley Crüe's "Shout at the Devil" but has since adopted Metallica's "Enter Sandman." It's a little cliché, sure, but it's also exceptionally badass (especially in a sport where "putting people to sleep" is the main goal). On the other hand, Carwin
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- Kyle Anderson
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Enter The Void Review
26 May 2009 4:54 PM, PDT
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[Our thanks to Katarina Gligorijevic for the following review of the latest from Gaspar Noe.]
Gaspar Noé won the Palme D’Or of my heart with this 160+ minute mind-bender. Enter the Void is more of an experimental, avant-garde journey through a DayGlo heart of darkness than it is a traditional narrative. After the punishing violence of both Seul Contre Tous and Irréversible, Noé switches gears completely and attempts to intimately capture the internal, hallucinatory experience of a young man’s death.
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- Todd Brown
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Coming Up to Cannes
27 April 2009 4:09 PM, PDT
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A veritable who's who of the world of great contemporary film directors will be competing against each other at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Films selected for competition include Bright Star and Antichrist from previous Palme d'Or winners Jane Campion and Lars Von Trier.
Our personal ‘wish we were there' films in competition include Enter The Void from Gaspar Noe (Irreversible, I Stand Alone) and A Prophet from director Jacques Audiard (The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Read My Lips) about a middle Eastern gangster.
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First Look: Gaspar Noe's Cannes Film Enter the Void
24 April 2009 3:00 AM, PDT
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French filmmaker Gaspar Noé may only have made two films so far, but anyone who has seen either of them know that he's quite a profound director. Both I Stand Alone and Irréversible premiered at Cannes in 1998 and 2002, respectively, and it was just announced yesterday that Gaspar Noe's latest film titled Enter the Void will be premiering at this year's Cannes Film Festival as well. These photos primarily come from the official website that recently launched - SoudainleVide.com. A few of them are quite trippy, but that's because part of the film is a hallucination, and that's just the beginning. Read on to see the photos.
For those wondering what this is about, I've provided a synopsis beneath the photos that I created by combining a translation of the synopsis on the website and another translated explanation of the plot.
Enter the Void stars newcomer Nathaniel Brown as Oscar
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- Alex Billington
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