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Hollywood child sex abuse doc An Open Secret from the director of West of Memphis and Deliver Us from Evil

Tobey Maguire as Bobby Fischer in Edward Zwick's Pawn Sacrifice.

Billy Ray's Secret in Their Eyes remake with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, and obvious wigs

I feel like if you take the background of military dictatorship out of that movie you are really making a different movie. This feels like a completely different movie.

That seems to be a trend with remakes of Ricardo Darín-starring films! The pretty crucial and timely thematic backdrop of the Argentinian currency crisis in the con artist film Nine Queens inevitably (and understandably, though it underlined the pointlessness of remaking it outside its original cultural context) got entirely removed from its US remake, Criminal leaving behind, well, just a con artist film.

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PfR73 wrote:The Jonathan Demme-directed, Diablo Cody-scripted Ricki And The Flash

I've seen this trailer at the theater what feels like millions of times and its promotion seems to be trying to assure everyone that this is the most saccharine, paint-by-numbers film ever made. Perhaps what'll emerge will have some of Cody and Demme's more interesting sensibilities somewhere, but my God does what's being advertised look horrible.

The Narrator Returns wrote:Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak

This, however, seems to have the potential to be a lot of fun and is exactly what I am happy to see del Toro making, especially now that Silent Hills has been indefinitely shelved!

flyonthewall2983 wrote:I'm not liking this trend of just remaking old songs, or remixing them for a trailer (like the one in Joy). It was clever when The Social Network did it, but it's gotten pretty tired.

Why Are Movie Trailers Using So Many Creepy Pop Covers? A Music Director Explains.

flyonthewall2983 wrote:Concussion

Between this and The Program, seems like the "Sports Conspiracy" movie will be all the rage this winter.

That looks pretty good. I've not seen The Armstrong Lie yet but I did see Stop At Nothing which is very good, so I'm already kind of invested in how that'll end up.

Silly me I thought it was an actual short film.

Should have used Pink Floyd's "Money" instead.