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...So it is with The Killer, the flat new thriller starring Michael Fassbender and directed by David Fincher....
...This nameless marksman’s nihilistic worldview is matched by Fincher’s cool, austere aesthetic....
...As befits a movie hailing the screenwriter as an unsung hero, Mank gives sole screenwriting credit to the actual screenwriter, Fincher’s late father, Jack Fincher....
...Lawrence Michael Levine’s savagely comic, unrepentantly dark-hearted Black Bear follows a film-maker stuck in a creative cul de sac to a lakeside retreat run by a failed musician and his pregnant wife....
...The same year David Fincher released The Social Network, a Facebook origin story serrated enough to wound Mark Zuckerberg. These were films that made film itself feel vital....
...Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment, by Michael D. Smith and Rahul Telang, MIT, 232 pages...
...His latest release, an adaptation of Michael Lewis’s book The Big Short, may achieve that....
...In this sense, maybe it owes more to War of the Roses (1989) than to Fatal Attraction, if we are to have our pick of Michael Douglas films....
...Michael Dobbs, who wrote the original BBC series is there, as are Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright and the other stars of Fincher’s version, fending off well-wishers and mingling with Washington politicos....
...“The killer app for tablets remains streaming,” said Michael Pachter, an analyst with Wedbush Securities....
...FME will on Monday reveal plans to distribute online series made by Vuguru – a studio that focuses on digital platforms and was founded by Michael Eisner, the former chief executive of Walt Disney – to broadcasters...
...The original authors, Andrew Davies and Michael Dobbs, are among the producers overseeing the transfer of the devious machinations of an unscrupulous chief whip from Westminster to Washington....
...“They’ve been hoisted by their own petard,” said Michael Pachter, an analyst with Wedbush Securities....
...Mississippi senators made their feelings about New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ban on large, sugary drinks clear....
...And Tarantino has called up actors we know he likes, among them Michael Parks, Samuel L. Jackson and himself....
...The fantastic nonsense of this warmed-up cold war plot – streamlined, supersonic, special-effects-intensive nonsense – ends with a showdown between hero and villain, played by Michael Nyqvist....
...And Michael Mann, no stranger to screening vices, directs Dustin Hoffman at the racetrack in Luck....
...She is full of praise for Michael Winterbottom, who directed her in A Mighty Heart (2007), the story of Daniel Pearl, the journalist who was abducted and killed in Pakistan....
...The rights to the book were acquired by Michael London’s Groundswell Productions and John Morris, a producer....
...The narrative video is more ambitious, the classic model being the mock-horror mini movie that Hollywood director John Landis made for Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” in 1983....
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