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‘Tales From The Loop’ Review: A Moving & Wondrous Director’s Showcase Of Prestige Sci-Fi

Gregory Ellwood — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 14:08:42 +0000

Early on in the third episode of the new Amazon Prime series, “Tales From The Loop,” Russ Willard (Jonathan Pryce) brings his young grandson Cole (Duncan Joiner) to an abandoned and rust, dilapidated sphere somewhere on the outskirts of the fictional town of Mersa, Ohio. Russ tells Cole to step up and yell inside it. Cole does as he’s told and hears “Hello” repeat six times in what sounds like six increasingly different voices.

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Director Matt Aselton Talks The Ambiguous And Clipped Tones Of ‘Gigantic’

Seth Valentine — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:05:00 +0000

Matt Aselton’s auspicious little indie comedy “Gigantic” has received surprisingly little attention and mixed to poor reviews, but it boasts an impressive cast that includes Paul Dano, Zooey Deschanel, John Goodman, Ed Asner, Jane Alexander, Clarke Peters and Zach Galifianakis. The quirks are evidently getting on many people’s nerves, but we think it’s a refreshing picture with strong performances and quite an elegant visual style. We caught up with Aselton and Dano in New York last week and discussed the film and how it’s being received.

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Why Is ‘Gigantic’ Being Ignored?

Rodrigo Perez — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:49:00 +0000

Is the upcoming Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel film, “Gigantic” the “Go-Getter” of 2009? I.e. a winning, auspicious and deserving little indie that’s unfortunately being ignored and practically dumped into theaters (one screen in New York at the little Village East) next weekend on April 3 (limited release too).

It probably does not help that First Independent/Epoch Films are small and probably don’t have the juice or muscle to promote with large-awareness fervor (and the fact that it’s only on one New York screen basically proves this), but we’ve lot a read a lot of critics online and on Twitter that have dismissed the film.

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Zooey Deschanel And Paul Dano Star In The ‘Gigantic’ Trailer

Adam Sweeney — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:41:00 +0000

How many more times can we tell you about this indie dramedy, “Gigantic”? We saw it at the Toronto International Film Fest and loved it. Partly and probably because we didn’t know too much about it and went in with zero expectations – that’s not an apologist move, but lord knows, you big-up something in advance once and people inevitably call it overhyped months later.

We’ll try and be brief because we feel like we’re written about the film hella number times.

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‘Gigantic’ Heading To Theaters In Spring 2009

Rodrigo Perez — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:39:00 +0000

Good news. One of our favorite films from the Toronto International Film Festival, “Gigantic” has been picked up L.A.-based distributors, First Independent Pictures and the film is set for release in Spring, 2009 according to Variety.

“Gigantic” was directed and co-written by first-time feature filmmaker Matt Aselton (Adam Nagata was his writing partner) and executive produced by lead star Paul Dano who said during the TIFF Q&A that he fell in love with the script and wanted to help out and star in the film.

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