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  • Midrange-budgeted indies a thing of the past, thanks to recession

    11/27/09 The bottom hasn't dropped out of indie filmmaking, but the middle has, and that's even worse.  |  The Hollywood Reporter
  • Review: Nic Cage at His Crazy Best in Bad Lieutenant

    11/19/09 You may have heard that Nicolas Cage acts completely insane in the title role of a New Orleans cop who becomes a heavy drug user.  |  E! Online
  • Film: Review:The Missing Person

    11/19/09 There's a mass of incongruities—some clever, others shockingly ill-conceived—in Noah Buschel's The Missing Person , a neo-noir that attempts to update the genre while providing a self-conscious throwback to its tarted-up dialogue and grimy ambiance.  |  The A.V. Club
  • Werner Herzog to head Berlin jury

    11/18/09 Werner Herzog has been tapped to head the Berlin Film Festival jury.  |  Variety
  • Twilight of the Bad Lieutenant

    11/15/09 Holiday festivities are about to kick into full gear, but you wouldn't know it looking at this angst-ridden release slate, since the closest we come to Christmas is Nicolas Cage's "Bad Lieutenant" doing a lot of "snow."  |  Independent Film Channel (IFC)
  • With help from David Lynch, Werner Herzog gets it 'Done'

    11/09/09 Ever since I saw Michael Shannon 's wonderful, Oscar-nominated performance in Revolutionary Road , I've been eager to find out where he'd turn up next.  |  Pop Candy
  • For celebs, size is everything

    11/07/09 That real date on their birth certificates isn't the only thing celebs tend to guard with their lives.  |  JAM! Showbiz
  • HBO brings Atlantic City to life

    10/13/09 Many of the ingredients in Atlantic City's rich, if checkered, history have provided the recipe for an original HBO series, "Boardwalk Empire."  |  New York Post - New York NY
  • Exclusive: 'The Missing Person' Poster Premiere

    10/06/09 Cinematical has just received this exclusive poster for The Missing Person , a noir mystery from writer/director Noah Buschel that premiered at Sundance earlier this year.  |  Cinematical.com
  • Mistakes Were Made

    09/15/09 On the one hand, Craig Wright's "Mistakes Were Made" is a straight-ahead showbiz satire, a portrait of an Off Broadway producer as craven commercialist.  |  Variety