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Spring Breakers

  • Title: Spring Breakers
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Spring BreakersHarmony Korine is a divisive filmmaker whose themes and characters are often are far more complicated then they initially appear but whose detractors often point to his limitless self-indulgence and gleeful exploration of his young stars; you shouldn’t expect anything less from the writer/director’s latest, Spring Breakers.

Korine knew exactly what he was doing in casting three attractive young Disney and ABC Family actresses (Selena GomezVanessa HudgensAshley Benson) to star along with his wife (Rachel Korine) in this tale of four thrill-seeking college students and their week of danger and debauchery over spring break.

The director is certainly exploiting each of the young women’s good-girl image to make the movie more titillating (which, despite the four young leads spending nearly the entire time in bikinis, it’s really not) while allowing each actress a chance to push outside the limits of kinds of roles they are usually known for.

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News and Notes

ECRAN LARGE has posted the new poster and new pics for writer/director Harmony Korine‘s Spring Breakers which stars Selena Gomez,  James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens, Rachel Korine, and Ashley Benson. You can see some of the previously released images for the film here

BAFTA has released their full list of nominees for this year’s awards. Lincoln leads all contenders with 10 nominations (although Steven Spielberg didn’t get a nomination for director). My two favorite films of the year (Anna Karenina and Zero Dark Thirty) picked up six and five nominations respectively

TV Line is reporting actress Sarah Shahi will appear as a recurring character later this season on Person of Interest

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News and Notes – Hotel Transylvania

  • Title: Hotel Transylvania
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Due to the record-setting box office success of Hotel Transylvania all digital showings of the film in Regal Entertainment Group Cinemas beginning this weekend will include a new animated short, “Goodnight, Mr. Foot” (featuring Bigfoot’s first time at the hotel for monsters) directed and animated by Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter’s LaboratoryStar Wars: Clone WarsSamurai Jack). For more information, you can find the full Press Release inside.

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Hotel for Monsters

  • Title: Hotel Transylvania
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hotel-transylvania-posterI usually enjoy animated films in all shapes and sizes, but I can sum up my heightened interest for Hotel Transylvania in two words – Genndy Tartakovsky. For those who don’t recognize the name, Tartakovsky is responsible for creating Dexter’s Laboratory, Star Wars: Clone Wars, and a little slice of awesome known as Samurai Jack. Tartakovsky also help produce The Powerpuff Girls (and write my favorite episode of the series).

Although Hotel Transylvania isn’t Tartakovsky’s creation, you can certainly see his fingerprints all over the film in a script he helped punch-up and his influence to push the movie towards a more high-energy animation style resembling Tex Avery’s classic cartoons. The result is a fast-paced, zany comedy with just enough of the director’s deft touches and humor to make it stand-out from more generic animated fare. At times the film certainly panders with obvious (and even cheap) jokes for the kids, but Tartakovsky’s take on a hotel for monsters is better than it has any right to be and should satisfy kids and most adults as well.

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An Interview with the cast of Spring Breakers

For the May issue of Interview Magazine writer/director Harmony Korine and stars Selena Gomez,  James Franco, and Ashley Benson, sat down with talk with Jonathan Durbin about their film Spring Breakers which will open in theaters sometime early next year. Korine talks about the paparazzi’s interest in the film and the amount of buzz pics of the young female cast in brightly colored bikinis generated online and in the press. In the film Gomez, Benson, Vanessa Hudgens, and Rachel Korine star as college girls who find themselves in jail after attempting to rob a bank while on spring break only to be bailed out by a local drug dealer (Franco) who gives them a real lesson in crime.

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