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500 Days of Summers
2012
A-Team
Adventureland
All Good Things
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Appaloosa
Argentine
At the Mountains of Madness
Avatar (1st draft scriptment)
Bank Job
Battle Los Angeles
Bedtime Stories
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Born (aka The Unborn)
Box, The
Bromance
Brothers Broom
Burn After Reading
Burrowers
Choke
Clash of the Titans (remake)
Confederacy of Dunces
Countdown
Courier, The
Cowboys and Aliens
Crank 2
Crossing Over
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Descent 2
Disassociate, The
Doomsday
Duplicity
Drag Me To Hell
Edge of Darkness
Edwin A. Salt
Escape from New York (remake)
Farragut North
Fed X
Fiasco Heights
Funny People
Gears of War
Get Smart
G.I. Joe
Grayskull: Masters of the Universe
Guerilla
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Halo (Garland)
Happening (Shyamalan)
Harold and Kumar Escape to Guantanamo Bay
Haunting in Connecticut
He's Just Not That Into You
Hitman
Honeymoon with Harry
Hot for Teacher
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
I Want to ____ Your Sister
Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
Incredible Hulk
Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods
Informers, The
Inglorious Bastards
Inside Man 2
Iron Man ('04)
Jennifer's Body
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Jonah Hex
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Jumper (Kinberg)
Killing Pablo
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Legion
Long D (Rogen, Goldberg, Apatow)
Lovely Bones
Low Dweller (DiCaprio, Ridley Scott attached)
Magneto
Match Point
Max Payne
Men
Men Who Stare at Goats, The
Midnight Man
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Mist, The
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Monster Squad
Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Nines
Nottingham
Offspring (Jack Ketchum)
Only Living Boy in New York
Pathology
Perfect Getaway, A
Point Break Indo
Pineapple Express
Preacher
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Promotion (aka Quebec)
Psycho Killer (unproduced Andrew Kevin Walker)
Public Enemies
Revenge of the Nerds (unproduced remake)
Revolutionary Road
Roger Rabbit 2
Role Models (early)
Roundtable
Serenity
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Sex Drive
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes and the Vengeance of Dracula
Six Million Dollar Man (Kevin Smith)
Solace
Soloist, The
Speed Racer
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State of Play
Step Brothers
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Strangers
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Towelhead
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Yes Man
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Reviews
Arc (2006)
A stunning debut from first-time filmmaker Gunnerson; equal style and substance
Forget whatever it is you know about Peter Facinelli from "Can't Hardly Wait" or the canceled series "Fastlane" -- neither of those projects even hinted at the depth he taps into here. Under the direction of Robert Ethan Gunnerson (this is one of the strongest debuts in recent memory), Facinelli is born again as an actor. Equally impressive is the debut of Raina-Simone Moore, who brings refreshing earthiness and wit to what could have been a stock character.
There are a lot of preconceived notions about "drug dramas," but this film should be seen first and foremost as a human drama. Instead of going for the trippy style of "Requiem for a Dream" or the barebones realism of "Drugstore Cowboy" -- Gunnerson wisely doesn't aim for one extreme. He also makes striking use of selective coloring, with colored objects popping out of black-and-white frames. In the hands of a lesser director, this could be a distracting gimmick, but here it works beautifully, speaking volumes about each character.
Funny how the film's budget was well under a million dollars, and yet it is has so much more heart and soul than the $150 million "Miami Vice." Seek it out, and you'll feel like you've made a great discovery. Days after seeing it, I can't shake it -- and I don't want to.