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A "Super"-Sized Interview with James Gunn
This interview originally ran as part of our Toronto Film Festival 2010 coverage.
Considering all the other subversive stuff in "Super," it makes a certain degree of sense that in making a film about a self-made superhero of questionable sanity and suspect superpowers, James Gunn found the full command of his own abilities as a writer/director. Known for such cult faves "Tromeo and Juliet" and "Slither," Gunn has been a master of the gross-out gag and the witty retort for quite some time, but in "Super," he does the unexpected in making a delightfully obscene film where puke jokes and savage beatings are in service of something genuinely philosophical.
It's a comedy first, every frame of which is as lovingly handmade as the costume of The Crimson Bolt, the alter ego of Frank D'Arbo (Rainn Wilson), a fry cook whose wife (Liv Tyler) falls back into her drug addiction and»
- Stephen Saito
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Imogen Poots, Felicity Jones, Caleb Landry-Jones, Dianna Agron & More Test For 'The Seventh Son'
With Julianne Moore and Jeff Bridges set to lend their considerable talents to the supernatural tentpole "The Seventh Son," the job is now finding a duo of young thesps to power this thing to the tween demographic it needs. With Alex Pettyfer bowing out and Jennifer Lawrence now focused on "The Hunger Games," a wide net is being cast for the roles of Tom and Alice in the film that follows the former, the seventh son of a seventh son in the 1700s who discovers he has the ability to see creatures of the dark, and trains to become a…»
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