As often proves the case with talky indies, a single visual flourish in “Downtown Owl” emerges to ensure the film does not become a mere plot and dialogue delivery mechanism. Here, that’s the long lens shot, which flattens out images at the edges to incorporate more information in the visual field. The device serves as a clever translation acknowledging just how jam-packed the hyperliterate prose of the source material’s author, Chuck Klosterman, can be.

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Have you ever read the vicious back and forths on Twitter between feminists and misogynists and thought, “Wow, I’d love to see those arguments played out in real life and on the big screen?” Well, if so, you’re in luck because that’s what you get in the new thriller, “Asking For It.”

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As seen in the trailer for the film, “Asking For It” stars Vanessa Hudgens as a member of a vigilante group of women who aim to take on the alt-right, men’s-rights activists led by Ezra Miller.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda has taken his shot and rose to the top of the musical theater and film world. “Hamilton” made Miranda a global star, and films like “Moana” and the adaptation of his musical “In the Heights” have garnered more interest in Miranda’s songwriting. He has faced controversy – namely, in terms of colorism within the cast of “In the Heights.” Regardless, his popularity garnered him project after project.

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If you were making your way through Twitter yesterday and wondering why the term “She’s 31” was trending, boy, you were in for a surprise. The term “She’s 31” refers to the age of Vanessa Hudgens and is a response to a controversy that caught fire on social media due to the actress’ comments about the recent coronavirus pandemic. Let’s just say people were shocked to find out that Hudgens was indeed a grown adult in her 30s and not some idiot teenager.

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Craving stylish action? If “John Wick” is a meaty steak, full of flavor that more than satisfies hunger pangs and “Crank” is cotton candy, sweet, tasty, but not very substantial, then Netflix‘s new action-thriller, “Polar,” directed by Jonas Åkerlund (“Spun“) and heavily indebted to both films, is what happens when you take a steak, cotton candy, and a healthy dose of your nearest narcotic and shove it all into a blender.

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The dog days of summer are upon us. With the buffet of films lined up for the next few months, we honestly could use this respite come August. So if you’re feeling a little fatigued by horror movies, remakes, or fandom feuds, we might have a suggestion equivalent to a calming, unweighted saunter through your neighborhood. And for this one, you may be inclined to take your four-legged, furry friend.

The latest from LD Entertainment (“The Zookeeper’s Wife,” “Jackie,” and “Megan Leavey“) is “Dog Days.” Directed by Ken Marino, “Dog Days” is an ensemble film about the power our canine companions have to bring us together.

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“Captain America: Civil War” recently posted the fifth highest opening weekend of all time, and even the critically-maligned “Batman V. Superman: Dawn Of Justice” which failed to show box office legs, scored the eighth highest opening weekend ever. The health of superhero movies does not feel at all in doubt. And yet, superhero narratives on television continue to be unpredictable.

READ MORE: Marvel’s Future: What Might Be Coming In Phase 4?

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Watch: Vampires, Zombies & Teenagers Get Monster Mashed-Up In The Red Band Trailer For ‘Freaks Of Nature’

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Review: 'The Frozen Ground' Starring Nicolas Cage, John Cusack & Vanessa Hudgens

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Watch: Nicolas Cage Wants To Put John Cusack In Jail In Trailer For 'The Frozen Ground'

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Review: Harmony Korine's 'Spring Breakers' Is A Semi-Conventional Genre Flick & Future Cult Favorite

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Watch: Alien Introduces Himself In New Clip From 'Spring Breakers' & Harmony Korine Tells Wild On-Set Stories

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Watch: 'Spring Breakers' Featurette Plus New Poster & Cahiers Du Cinema Cover

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Watch: New, Wild Red Band Trailer For Harmony Korine's 'Spring Breakers'

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Watch: Everything Is The Same In First Clip From Harmony Korine's 'Spring Breakers'

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Watch: Vanessa Hudgens Strips While Nic Cage & John Cusack Face Off In Trailer For 'Frozen Ground'

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Vanessa Hudgens Joins 'Machete Kills'

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Babes & Bikinis: More Pics From Harmony Korine's 'Spring Breakers'

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First Look: John Cusack, Nicolas Cage and Vanessa Hudgens In Serial Killer Pic 'Frozen Ground'

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First Look At James Franco In Harmony Korine's 'Spring Breakers' Plus More Pics Of Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez & More

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Review: Flavorless 'Journey 2: The Mysterious Island' Isn't Even An Admirable Folly

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The Disney graduate is in final negotiations to join the sequel that Brendan Fraser was smart enough to get out of doing. With Dwayne Johnson taking over the lead role, the film will find Josh Hutcherson reprising his role from the first installment and partnering with Johnson (playing his mom’s boyfriend) as they go on a trip to a mythical island to find his missing grandfather (Caine).

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It’s an ambitious tale, somewhere between Terry Gilliam, “Inception” and “Girl Interrupted”; a sort of “Suicide Girls In Wonderland,” if you will, set in the 1950s and following Babydoll (Emily Browning, who replaced Amanda Seyfried), a teenage girl who is institutionalized by her wicked stepfather (Jon Hamm), and creates an alternate reality, along with her fellow inmates, in which she has to find five objects that will help her to escape before she’s lobotomized.

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To refresh your memory, the film (which also stars Carla Gugino, Jon Hamm, Scott Glenn and Oscar Isaac) centers on a girl who enters an alternate reality with her friends and begins planning an escape from a mental institution where she was put by her evil stepfather who intends to have her lobotomized in five days.

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The first image gives us the the quintet of Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Jena Malone and Abbie Cornish looking particularly like they are ready to kick ass (or going to one helluva S+M party). In short, geeks everywhere have some new fap material (ew, gross, we know).

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