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New trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron surfaces online — watch
No less than a week after the first trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron hit the web comes a second look at next year’s most anticipated film. The two-and-a-half minute teaser depicts the Avengers’...
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The One-Time Oscar Nominee Club
Surely Michael Keaton’s been nominated for an Oscar before Birdman, right? That guy’s been around forever, with a list of hits a mile long. Oh sure, he started off 2014 with soulless pay-days like Need...
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Film Review: Kingsman: The Secret Service
Director Matthew Vaughn’s latest film, Kingsman: The Secret Service, is an attempt at finding a balance somewhere between Austin Powers and James Bond that doesn’t quite succeed. It’s an R-rated movie...
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Kanye West, Common, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Piven to star in Spike Lee’s...
Spike Lee’s going from Brooklyn to Chicago: The Wrap reports that Kanye West and Common are being eyed to join Samuel L. Jackson and Jeremy Piven for a new film by the Oscar-nominated filmmaker titled...
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Ranking + Dissected: The Marvel Cinematic Universe
Welcome to Marvel Week! In anticipation of The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Consequence of Sound will publish a related feature each day leading up to the blockbuster sequel’s Friday release. Today, we...
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Update: Spike Lee’s Chiraq will be an adaptation of a Greek musical comedy
Update: A representative for West denies that he’ll be appearing in the film. He may, however, contribute to the soundtrack. Despite opposition from Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Spike Lee is moving...
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Thanks to Die Hard with a Vengeance, I Can Stomach Violence
There was a time I couldn’t do violence. At all. The briefest glimpse of blood, a glinting steel blade, any threat of bodily harm–they all sent me diving under covers. My parents showed me Psycho, a...
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The Jurassic Park Franchise: What the Hell Happened?
Jurassic Week continues! Tonight, Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World opens in theaters everywhere and Consequence of Sound’s related coverage stomps ahead. Yesterday, Senior Editor Matt Melis’ Page to...
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Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful Eight to be released on Christmas Day
Nothing says the holidays like a Quentin Tarantino movie. Thus, The Weinstein Company has set a December 25th release date for Tarantino’s latest epic, Hateful Eight. On Christmas Day, the film will be...
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Film Review: Big Game
About halfway through Jalmari Helander’s sophomore feature Big Game, I was getting a little irritated. Not just because the film features a silly story embellished with chintzy CGI and featuring Samuel...
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Ennio Morricone to score Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight
Italian composer Ennio Morricone started his now-legendary, multi-Oscar-nominated career providing scores for spaghetti-westerns like Once Upon a Time in the West, The Big Gundown, and Sergio Leone’s...
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Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq to be Amazon’s first-ever original movie
Back in January, Amazon launched Amazon Original Movies, aimed at producing and/or acquiring small-budget films that would be given theatrical releases alongside “early window distribution” through...
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Trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight comes out guns blazing — watch
The trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s highly anticipated western The Hateful Eight has come online. Due in theaters on December 25th, the film stars Kurt Russell, Samuel L. Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh,...
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Quentin Tarantino’s original wishlist for Pulp Fiction cast leaks online
If things had gone as planned, “They call it a Royale with cheese” would sound entirely different in our heads than it does today. Recently leaked casting sheets reveal that Quentin Tarantino had...
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The 10 Most Shocking Mob Hits in Film History
It’s somewhat fitting to be writing about mob movies only a few short miles from where Al Capone’s South Side Chicago gang once ran a bootlegging empire through brute force and backroom politics. And...
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Godzilla vs. Kong, due out in 2020, part of new cinematic universe
Hollywood sure does love creating cinematic universes. The latest comes from Legendary and Warner Bros., which have formally announced plans for a new franchise uniting Godzilla and King Kong. Three...
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Lay Off Me, I’m Starving: The Tastiest Meals in Film History
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away … I was a fat kid. Not only a fat kid, but a nerdy fat kid, which meant I was awful at everything that kept you from being a fat kid — like sports. But, when...
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Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, and Ryan Reynolds sign on for Hitman’s Bodyguard
A trio of powerhouse names will suit up together for Millennium Films’ upcoming action film Hitman’s Bodyguard. Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, and Gary Oldman have all signed on for the film, with...
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Quentin Tarantino mocks his critics with new trailer for The Hateful Eight —...
Police boycotts be damned: Quentin Tarantino may be in some hot water with the NYPD (and his executive producer Harvey Weinstein) over comments he made recently, but that’s not going to slow down the...
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Film Review: Chi-Raq
The film comes on stronger than strong, starting with some basic numbers. From 2001 to 2015, Chicago has seen 7,356 gun-related deaths. Comparisons show that the number slain is outpacing the casualty...
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