*'Tis the Season For Your Consideration: The Independent Spirit Awards announced its nominees, with the much-ballyhooed abused-teen drama Precious and yet-to-be-released Leo Tolstoy biopic The Last Station leading with five nods each. Joining them for the Best Picture contest is (500) Days of Summer, Amreeka, and Sin Nombre. It's not surprising that three of the [...]

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You should mosey along to another post if you haven't yet seen Paranormal Activity — or could care less about how it ends.
But before Steven Spielberg scooped up Oren Peli's micro-budgeted chiller, he suggested an alternate ending, the relatively bloodless one that made its way to the final print. Now several Web [...]

Paranormal Activity
Directed by Oren Peli
Holy shit.
Disregard the gimmicky marketing of Paranormal Activity. Yes, it is a bit inspired, with Paramount releasing the film in only a handful of cities, shooting a trailer that captures an audience's reaction, and directing the unfortunate moviegoers who'd been left out to a Web site wherein they could “demand” it [...]