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Review: 'Movie 43' Strains For Laughs With Uninspired Collection Of Comedy Shorts

  • By Gabe Toro
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  • January 25, 2013 8:03 AM
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  • 3 Comments
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What is there to say, analytically, about “Movie 43”? Not released in theaters as much as inexplicably materializing in front of our very eyes, “Movie 43” has no moral, no overarching story, and no point other than the opportunity for Hollywood stars to play silly for a short while. Some of them relish this – a few of the performers are a natural at studied wackiness. Some aren’t as comfortable. Others just seem like they’re passing the time. The filmmakers who collaborated on this anthology film, however, mostly fit that last description. Despite the title, this… thing…is barely a movie.
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More: Review, James Gunn, Griffin Dunne, Emma Stone, Dennis Quaid, Johnny Knoxville, Elizabeth Banks, Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Movie 43, Review

Joss Whedon Says 'Guardians Of The Galaxy' Will Be "Twisted," 'Avengers 2' Will Be "Complex & Difficult"

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • September 11, 2012 11:38 AM
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  • 3 Comments
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As follow-ups to one of the three biggest movies of all time go, making a Shakespeare movie in your back garden with your friends must go down in history as one of the more unlikely ones. But that's exactly what "The Avengers" director Joss Whedon did, using the time between the Marvel pic wrapping and the start of post-production to direct a low-budget black-and-white version of "Much Ado About Nothing" starring Whedonverse graduates like Amy Acker, Alexis Denisof, Nathan Fillion, Clark Gregg, Fran Kranz and Sean Maher among the cast.
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More: Guardians Of The Galaxy, Joss Whedon, James Gunn, The Avengers 2

'Super' Filmmaker James Gunn In Talks To Direct Marvel's 'Guardians Of The Galaxy'

  • By Rodrigo Perez
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  • August 18, 2012 3:21 PM
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  • 9 Comments
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Marvel is wasting no time getting their next big film property, an adaptation of the comic book series, "Guardians Of The Galaxy," off the ground. After a lengthy search, James Gunn has apparently taken the pole position slot as the primary contender to take the director's chair for this tale of interstellar heroes who proactively protect the galaxy.
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More: Guardians Of The Galaxy, James Gunn, Marvel

SXSW: James Gunn & Rainn Wilson Talk The Dark, Twisted Comedy Of 'Super'

  • By Gabe Toro
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  • March 14, 2011 2:13 AM
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In James Gunn’s “Super” (review here), Rainn Wilson plays a mild-mannered man who reacts to the “evil” in the world by donning a superhero costume and fighting crime. Of course, it’s never that simple when you’re dealing with Gunn and Wilson. As deranged as Gunn’s previous films have been (particularly his early roots at Troma), Wilson is an equally unpredictable mind, crafting an onscreen persona that continually subverts expectations.
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More: Films, Actors, James Gunn, Super Hero Films, Rainn Wilson, Super, SXSW Film Festival

SXSW Review: James Gunn's 'Super' With Rainn Wilson & Ellen Page Is Twisted, But Uneven

  • By Gabe Toro
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  • March 13, 2011 6:41 AM
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  • 6 Comments
“Shut up, Crime!” bellows Rainn Wilson in “Super.” Such a random demand is highlighted by the outsized appearance of the speaker, clad in thick red fabrics, stocky and pear-shaped within a makeshift superhero costume. It serves as a power fantasy for him, a power fantasy for us. As seen through the eyes of writer-director James Gunn, a man of notably questionable taste, this is no ordinary fantasy.
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More: Films, Actors, Actresses, Review, James Gunn, Super Hero Films, Kevin Bacon, Rainn Wilson, Liv Tyler, Super, SXSW Film Festival

New Poster For James Gunn's 'Super'

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • February 25, 2011 6:43 AM
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James Gunn‘s superhero parody, the appropriately titled “Super,” premiered last year at TIFF where it received some strong reviews and landed a distribution deal with IFC. We missed it at the fest but we've liked what we've seen so far and it looks like the first film in a while that will nail a very tricky genre. With its SXSW bow just around the corner, Gunn has debuted a new poster on his site in the style of the folded-up flyers its hero puts up around town.
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New Look At James Gunn's 'Super,' Film Hits Theaters On April 1, 2011

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • November 29, 2010 10:39 AM
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April Fools Day just got a kick in the teeth.
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More: Films, James Gunn, Super Hero Films, Super

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