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is a Pre-Code 1932 horror film about sideshow performers, directed by Tod Browning.
The movie was adapted by Al Boasberg, Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon, and Edgar Allan Woolf from the short story Spurs by Tod Robbins. Browning, famed at the time for his collaborations with Lon Chaney and for directing Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931), took the exceptional step of casting real people with deformities as the eponymous sideshow “freaks,” rather than using costumes and makeup. Director Browning had been a member of a traveling circus in his early years, and much of the film was drawn from his personal experiences. He intended to portray the classic moral of how outer beauty does not necessarily equate to inner beauty. In the film, the physically deformed “freaks” are inherently trusting and honorable people, while the real monsters are two of the “normal” members of the circus who conspire to murder one of the performers to obtain his large inheritance.
Reaction to this film was so intense that Browning had trouble finding work afterwards, and this in effect brought his career to an early close. Because its deformed cast was shocking to moviegoers of the time, the film was banned in the United Kingdom for thirty years.
In 1994 the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
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Two men (Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman) who are dying from cancer escape their hospital together and go on a road trip to fulfill their final "to-do" list.
( Released: 06/10/2008 Rated: PG-13 - for sequences of intense action violence, some language and brief sexuality Avg. Score: 2/5
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One day, Davey (Hayden Christensen) discovers he has an amazing ability. He can teleport himself to any location at will. Using his newfound power to find the man who killed his mother, Davey unwittingly becomes a target of National Security Agency officers and another person with the same exact power. Based on the popular young adult novel by Steven Gould.
( Released: 06/10/2008 Rated: PG-13 - for mature thematic material, sexual content and language Avg. Score: 2.5/5
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Frank Allen (Ryan Reynolds) thinks he has life all figured out. He has everything so much under control that he lives his life via carefully designed lists written out on index cards telling him what to do and when, which is a trait his wife Susan (Emily Mortimer) finds charming if a bit annoying. When she introduces a random factor into Frank's otherwise orderly life, he suddenly turns into a complete convert to the ways of chaos and disorganization that's makes Susan's life worse, not better.
( Released: 06/10/2008 Rated: PG-13 - for mature thematic elements, sexual content and some violent images Avg. Score: 3/5
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Anne (Natalie Portman) and Mary (Scarlett Johansson) Boleyn are two competitive sisters in the 16th century who are both after the same prize: King Henry VIII (Eric Bana). Luckily for them, Henry isn't choosy, so he alternates between the beautiful women. Unluckily for one of them, she'll find her neck underneath the executioner's blade.
( Released: 06/10/2008 Rated: Not Rated Avg. Score: 4/5
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On Nov. 13-14, 1990, gun collector David Gray (Matthew Sunderland) took his collection and shot dead 13 people before eventually being killed himself by the police. This is a dramatic recreation of the Aramoana Massacre that really happened in New Zealand.
( Released: 06/10/2008 Rated: R - for language Avg. Score: 5/5
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This unique documentary seeks to compare whether or not human life follows the same dramatic structure as laid out by the classic Greek playwright, Euripides. This is done by following the lives of four very different men: a German terrorist, a thief, a gay evangelist who has gone straight and a student studying the martial arts.
( Released: 06/10/2008 Rated: R - for strong brutal bloody violence throughout, pervasive language and brief nudity Avg. Score: 3/5
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All devices that receive transmission signals — e.g., TVs, radios, cell phones — suddenly start emitting a sonic blast that transforms ordinary individuals into raving, homicidal lunatics. In three separate stories, the lives of people affected by this horrifying predicament are explored.
( Released: 06/10/2008 Rated: PG-13 - for crude and sex-related humor Avg. Score: 0.63/5
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A small-town sheriff (Larry the Cable guy) is just doing his job when he stops what he thinks is two men kidnapping a woman (Ivana Milicevic). However, the "kidnappers" claim to be FBI agents who are only escorting their charge to a major trial in Chicago, so the sheriff lets them go. Later on, the lawman discovers that the agents are actually dirty and really are trying to kill the witness.
( Released: 06/10/2008 Rated: R - for terror, violence and some language Avg. Score: 1.75/5
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A family (Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Devon Gearhart) go on a peaceful vacation at a secluded cabin but are tortured both physically and mentally by a pair of psychos.
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LCD Soundsystem debuted with Losing My Edge, a single that became one of the most talked-about indie releases of 2002. A self-effacing spoof of the outrageous pissing contests that often occur whenever music geeks cross paths (”I was there at the first Can show in Cologne,” etc.) laid over a puttering electronic beat with the occasional bursts of discoid clatter, the track was also one of the first released on the DFA label. Several magazines and newspapers would eventually declare James Murphy, the man behind both LCD Soundsystem and DFA, to be one of the coolest people on the planet.
Years of obscurity and the occasional poor decision preceded this. Just before Murphy began to cut his teeth throughout the ’90s, first as a member of Pony (an average post-hardcore band with heavy debts to their inspirations) and then with Speedking (a much stronger, more unique band), he passed up the opportunity to write for the popular sitcom Seinfeld. All the time spent toiling in indie rock took a toll on Murphy, but he built his own studio and became increasingly adept at engineering and producing other bands.
While working on David Holmes’ Bow Down to the Exit Sign, he struck up a relationship with programmer/producer Tim Goldsworthy that developed into a partnership. By the end of 2002, there were several releases on Murphy and Goldsworthy’s DFA label, most of which involved the duo in some capacity. LCD’s “Losing My Edge,” backed with an excellent neo-post-punk dance track called “Beat Connection,” was one of them. Murphy scattered three other LCD singles through the end of 2004 and released a self-titled full-length in January of 2005. At the time of its release, the DFA label was more popular than ever; Murphy and Goldsworthy had remixes for Metro Area, N.E.R.D., Le Tigre, and Junior Senior behind them, as well as failed sessions with Britney Spears that might’ve benefited from an interpreter. Janet Jackson was another unlikely admirer seeking the duo’s assistance, but Murphy didn’t bother to follow up on her request.
( Released: 06/10/2008 Rated: PG-13 - for language, including a sexual reference Avg. Score: 1.75/5
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Two men (Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman) who are dying from cancer escape their hospital together and go on a road trip to fulfill their final "to-do" list.
( Released: 06/10/2008 Rated: PG-13 - for sequences of intense action violence, some language and brief sexuality Avg. Score: 2/5
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One day, Davey (Hayden Christensen) discovers he has an amazing ability. He can teleport himself to any location at will. Using his newfound power to find the man who killed his mother, Davey unwittingly becomes a target of National Security Agency officers and another person with the same exact power. Based on the popular young adult novel by Steven Gould.
( Released: 06/10/2008 Rated: PG-13 - for mature thematic material, sexual content and language Avg. Score: 2.5/5
| Trailers | Photos | Reviews
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Frank Allen (Ryan Reynolds) thinks he has life all figured out. He has everything so much under control that he lives his life via carefully designed lists written out on index cards telling him what to do and when, which is a trait his wife Susan (Emily Mortimer) finds charming if a bit annoying. When she introduces a random factor into Frank's otherwise orderly life, he suddenly turns into a complete convert to the ways of chaos and disorganization that's makes Susan's life worse, not better.
( Released: 06/10/2008 Rated: PG-13 - for mature thematic elements, sexual content and some violent images Avg. Score: 3/5
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Anne (Natalie Portman) and Mary (Scarlett Johansson) Boleyn are two competitive sisters in the 16th century who are both after the same prize: King Henry VIII (Eric Bana). Luckily for them, Henry isn't choosy, so he alternates between the beautiful women. Unluckily for one of them, she'll find her neck underneath the executioner's blade.
( Released: 06/10/2008 Rated: Not Rated Avg. Score: 4/5
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On Nov. 13-14, 1990, gun collector David Gray (Matthew Sunderland) took his collection and shot dead 13 people before eventually being killed himself by the police. This is a dramatic recreation of the Aramoana Massacre that really happened in New Zealand.
( Released: 06/10/2008 Rated: R - for language Avg. Score: 5/5
| Trailers | Photos | Reviews
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This unique documentary seeks to compare whether or not human life follows the same dramatic structure as laid out by the classic Greek playwright, Euripides. This is done by following the lives of four very different men: a German terrorist, a thief, a gay evangelist who has gone straight and a student studying the martial arts.
( Released: 06/10/2008 Rated: R - for strong brutal bloody violence throughout, pervasive language and brief nudity Avg. Score: 3/5
| Trailers | Photos | Reviews
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All devices that receive transmission signals — e.g., TVs, radios, cell phones — suddenly start emitting a sonic blast that transforms ordinary individuals into raving, homicidal lunatics. In three separate stories, the lives of people affected by this horrifying predicament are explored.
( Released: 06/10/2008 Rated: PG-13 - for crude and sex-related humor Avg. Score: 0.63/5
| Trailers | Photos | Reviews
) —
A small-town sheriff (Larry the Cable guy) is just doing his job when he stops what he thinks is two men kidnapping a woman (Ivana Milicevic). However, the "kidnappers" claim to be FBI agents who are only escorting their charge to a major trial in Chicago, so the sheriff lets them go. Later on, the lawman discovers that the agents are actually dirty and really are trying to kill the witness.
( Released: 06/10/2008 Rated: R - for terror, violence and some language Avg. Score: 1.75/5
| Trailers | Photos | Reviews
) —
A family (Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Devon Gearhart) go on a peaceful vacation at a secluded cabin but are tortured both physically and mentally by a pair of psychos.
Eisley is a quintet featuring three sisters, their brother, and their best friend, Tyler, TX’s Eisley formed in 1997 when the DuPree siblings — guitarist Chauntelle, singer/guitarist Sherri, singer/keyboardist Stacy, and drummer Weston — began playing with bassist Jon Wilson. Originally called the Towheads, the band began playing local gigs the following year, when Stacy was just eight years old. Over the next five years, the band wrote and played, expanding their touring area to the Dallas-Fort Worth region and ultimately winning a 2003 Best New Act Award from the Dallas Observer. A few months later, the group released their debut EP, Laughing City, on the indie imprint Record Collection, and toured that spring and summer with Coldplay and Ron Sexsmith. The Marvelous Things EP arrived later in 2003, and early in 2005, their first full-length, Room Noises, arrived.
Eisley turned in their second album to Warner Brothers on April 7, 2007. On April 23, 2007, the Dallas Morning News announced that the album will be called Combinations. Warner Bros. gave the album a target release date of July 31 with the back-up date of August 7, 2007, but has decided that the album will release on August 14, 2007. The band will also be touring with The Fray from July 10 until July 21, 2007. [8]
The song “Invasion” is slated to be the first single from Combinations and there will be two videos shot. One will be a viral-type and the other will be more for television.
Named both in reference to the Russian Decembrist Revolt (Explaining their use of the National Anthem of the Soviet Union as an introduction at each concert) and to the atmosphere associated with the month of December, the Decemberists write songs that range from upbeat pop to instrumentally lush ballads, and often employ instruments like the accordion, Hammond organ, Wurlitzer organ, and upright bass. In their lyrics, they eschew the angst and introspection common to modern rock, instead favoring a storytelling approach, as evidenced in songs such as “My Mother Was A Chinese Trapeze Artist” from the 5 Songs EP and “The Mariner’s Revenge Song” on Picaresque. Their songs convey tales ranging from whimsical “Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect” to epic “The Tain” to truly dark “Odalisque“. They often invoke historical events and themes from around the world. Early in their career, The Decemberists’ musical and lyrical aesthetics frequently prompted critics to compare them to Neutral Milk Hotel. Since their debut, their sound has undergone a consistent evolution, most notably in the direction of progressive rock with a strong folk influence, though they have also been described as indie rock and, by Stephen Colbert, as “hyper-literate prog rock”. For example, one song, “When the War Came”, uses a little-known story from the Siege of Leningrad to describe the heroism of civilian scientists during warfare . The lyrics state: “We made our oath to Vavilov/We’d not betray the solanum/The acres of asteraceae/To our own pangs of starvation”. Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov was a Russian botanist whose laboratory, a seedbank containing 200,000 types of plant seeds, many of them edible, was preserved throughout the siege, during which hundreds of thousands of people died.
In March 2005, the Decemberists were reportedly the first band to distribute a music video via BitTorrent — the self-produced “16 Military Wives” (from Picaresque) That same month, the band’s equipment trailer was stolen; fans contributed to a replacement fund, and another fund-raiser was organized via an eBay auction, with buyers bidding for copies of Colin Meloy Sings Morrissey and original art work by Carson Ellis. They also received help from Lee Kruger, the Shins, the Dandy Warhols and other musicians. The Martin Guitar Company offered 6- and 12-string guitars on permanent loan. In early April, police discovered the trailer in Clackamas, Oregon, and a fair amount of the band’s merchandise, but the instruments and equipment were not recovered.
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