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Did The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus not satisfy your Terry Gilliam cravings? Good thing Franklyn is out on DVD, featuring some absurd dystopian world-building that feels like a series of outtakes from Brazil or Time Bandits. More »
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"It's a somewhat arty science fiction romance thriller." "It's a genre of no genre." "It's an urban fairytale fantasy drama, with a parallel-world aspect to it." Even the people making Franklyn struggled to explain it. More »
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A new trailer for the parallel-world saga Franklyn is out, giving us further insight into the uber-religious future where everyone is forced to profess some sort of spirituality — even if it's just worshiping donkeys. More »
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We've been excited for Franklyn for almost a year now, and there's finally a trailer for the movie, opening in London in January. In one of the movie's four intersecting storylines, Ryan Philippe plays Jonathan Preest, a homicidal gun-toting superhero in a dystopian future where you're required to believe in a religion... but they don't care which one. So people worship the Washing Machine Street Preachers, whose religion is based on washing-machine instructions, and other loony sects. Can Ryan save us from our own cracked-out faith? Watch this surreal, Gilliam-esque trailer and see for yourself. [EvaGreenWeb] More »
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Some movies radiate their awesomeness backwards in time as well as forwards. You practically have memories of enjoying films that haven't come out yet, the anticipation is so great. Other movies are so horrible, the pain travels back in time and becomes your childhood trauma. Here are the 2008 movies that are already thrilling and horrifying us: More »
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Ryan Phillippe wears a supernatural-looking mask in Franklyn, a British film coming out next year. He plays the only atheist in a city full of religious fanatics. Writer/director Gerald McMorrow spilled the beans yesterday about the film's weird set-up. More »
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