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Me, I'm Steve Head. I co-created the movie news website IGN Filmforce, which is now IGN movies, and that's where much of my writing goes. There, we essentially live and breathe news and interviews. From 1997 to 2000 I was co-editor of TheForce.net - your daily Star Wars news. I've also written for Esquire, Script magazine, and the Boston Phoenix. And from time to time I volunteer at the nonprofit Brattle Theater (http://brattlefilm.org) here in Cambridge, MA. I'm also Editor in Chief of the NewFilmNation.com.

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Stanley Kubrick: a props odyssey

Movies – War-ravaged weapons from 'Full Metal Jacket', eerie papers from 'The Shining', Tom Cruise's driving licence from 'Eyes Wide Shut' ââ;¬Â¦ As the Stanley Kubrick archive - all 900 boxes of it - is opened up for the first time.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 16, 2008 12:07pm

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Return of The Frontiersman

Movies – What can one say about Rudy Wurtlitzer that doesn't suggest multitudes of overlapping worlds? Like William Burroughs, he is the descendant of a once prosperous American business family.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 16, 2008 11:59am

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Egoyan's bold take on Beckett opens in New York

Movies – Liam Neeson stars in 'gigantic reaction shot' Eh Joe, acclaimed in Dublin and London...

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How much does it cost to become Batman?

Movies – Way back in 2005, Batman began again. The series, which continues with Friday's release of the highly-anticipated The Dark Knight, took Tim Burton's Batman and added a few layers.

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Pixar, Wall E's distopia

Movies – Pixar's new film, WALL-E, is a dystopia, and so it is surprising that conservatives find it so distasteful--they usually love the genre. Neocons like Norman Podhoretz...

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Plans to film long-lost Garcia Marquez screenplay

Movies – A story about an ageing pistolero and his much younger partner penned over 40 years ago by a struggling writer called Gabriel Garcia Marquez...

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Submitted and Voted for on July 16, 2008 11:31am

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China won't play Games with pirates

Movies – Olympic visitors coming to Beijing hoping to pick up a pirated copy of "Iron Man," "Kung Fu Panda" or runaway B.O. fave "Red Cliff" should be prepared to go home disappointed; Chinese authorities have clamped down on counterfeit DVD sellers in the run-up to the Beijing Games.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 16, 2008 11:26am

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Creators of Lassie Get Their Dog Back

Television – In a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals from the Ninth Circuit, partial rights to the iconic animal were returned to Winifred Knight Mewborn, the daughter of Eric Knight, who penned the original short story.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 15, 2008 02:33pm

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Why You Don't Care About Eddie Murphy

Celebrities – We needed a little time today to digest our feelings after the miserable box-office showing of Meet Dave, whose free-fall over the weekend resulted in the ugliest opening of Eddie Murphy's career...

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The nine rules of '80s fantasy

Movies – The genre boom of the 1980s, sparked by the success of 'Star Wars' and 'E.T.' and fostered by the preponderance of household video players, sparked a revolution in film fantasy...

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Submitted and Voted for on July 15, 2008 02:30pm

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Christopher Nolan: From Action Man to Batman

Celebrities – From a seven-year-old who filmed his toy soldiers to the blockbusting The Dark Knight, featuring Heath Ledger's final screen appearance, this British-born director is now being compared with Hitchcock and Kubrick...

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Wong Kar-Wai to direct Leung-Lau wedding

Movies – One of China's most famous star couples want their wedding to feel like a romantic movie. Tony Leung and Carina Lau have invited award-winning director Wong Kar-Wai to help them work out their wedding details.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 15, 2008 02:28pm

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Pixar's Blockbuster Secrets

Movies – Wall-E is just the latest No. 1 movie for the animation giant, whose success owes more to its corporate culture than its movies' content...

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Submitted and Voted for on July 15, 2008 02:26pm

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Are you crazy enough to succeed?

Do No Evil – OCD has become cool. Perhaps it fascinates us because it forces otherwise normal people to carry out insane acts ââ;¬" acts that they know are insane. It has great dramatic tension.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 13, 2008 09:54pm

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Anna Faris Named Hugh Hefner's Honorary New Girlfriend

Celebrities – Anna Faris stars in the upcoming "The House Bunny" (which features the men's magazine mogul and his three busty blondes), and has since been spending quite a bit of time at the iconic Playboy Mansion.

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