Michael Roemer’s 1964 drama is an indie-cinema milestone, bringing an incisive grasp of place, period and performance to its up-close portrait of emergent black pride. Ivan Dixon is hugely affecting as Duff, an itinerant railroad worker in Alabama who marries teacher-and-preacher’s daughter Josie (Abbey Lincoln) despite disapproval on all sides. …
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Many fans see an English-translation of a foreign film as sacrilege. But Studio Ghibli has an impressive habit of garnering Hollywood A-Listers to dub over their spectacular animations. Up On Poppy Hill is no different, with Gillian Anderson, Aubrey Plaza, Christina Hendricks, Ron Howard and many more lending their dulcet …
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OK, results may vary on this one. The year is 2004, and I’m late to the PlayStation 2 party (blame: EverQuest). My roommates and I are poor, finishing up our last year at Ohio State, and poor. We live in a cinderblock mansion. Three floors of verticality; the living room …
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PS4 and PS Vita owners can start streaming from a library of backwards compatible titles in 2014, Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida told IGN this week. North American players will be the first to get access to the cloud of PS3 titles. The streaming service built on Gaikai will …
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Thor: The Dark World , the next significant step in Phase 2 of Marvel’s cinematic masterplan, is hitting cinemas soon, and an extended trailer has been released as a handy reminder. There’s not a huge amount of new footage in there, but it does a decent job of reminding you …
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“There are sets of issues to making sure whatever platform you have works well in a living room environment. There are thermal issues and sound issues, but there also a bunch of input issues. So the next step in our contribution to this [the promotion of Linux for gaming] is …
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Agent Coulson is back for TV’s Agents Of SHIELD , coming to TV later this month. (opens in new tab) “What I find compelling about Agent Coulson,” actor Clark Gregg tells us in the latest edition of SFX , “is that this guy has seen things that would turn your …
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Comic creator Robert Kirkman and executive producers Gale Anne Hurd and Dave Alpert are behind the new series (opens in new tab) It will apparently tell a brand-new story and feature a new cast of characters, although also be based on Kirkman’s long-running comic. It’s expected to launch in 2015. …
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Former Executive Vice President of EA Sports Andrew Wilson has taken over as the publisher’s CEO, EA announced today. Wilson delivered a brief message to employees, shareholders, and customers in a message posted to EA’s news blog. Wilson took over EA Sports in August 2011 and has been with the …
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Mighty No. 9 got equipped with console versions today. The Kickstarted spiritual successor to Mega Man from Keiji Inafune’s Comcept studio cleared $2.2 million in pledges, soaring past its most significant stretch goal yet. The platformer will be at home on PS3, Wii U, and Xbox 360, on top of …
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